Good morning everybody, Lee Brower here
and welcome to this week's edition of
Meaningful Monday.
i am grateful to be here, i am glad to be
here.
Stress; is there stress in the world
today?
Do you feel the stress? Have you seen the
studies that have coming out?
If you don't feel stressed, all you have
to do is read the studies and then
you'll realize that,
oh, maybe I should be feeling stressed.
But whether we hide it
or we're good at, there are certain
things that we can do,
imagine being able to take control of
yourself, those things that you can
control,
to be able to have, maybe not a
stress-free
life but less stress in your life. Part
of stress
comes from not knowing. Part of stress
comes from not being in control.
So let's start with the things that we
can control. I'm going to share
three things with you that I believe
will help all of us become
stronger pillars, to be the calm in the
storm if you will,
and then I'm going to share with you an
offer that I could not refuse,
and I'm going to offer it to you under
the same terms that I got it
and I believe that every one of you will
snap it up,
because it's free, but it's only free if
you want to go get it.
All right, what are those three things?
Number one: guess what it is,
you got it, Gratitude. So when you look at
gratitude,
it's not just being in gratitude or
beginning in gratitude it's going: BIG, RIG, FIG. Develop
patterns to where gratitude is your
constant companion,
from the moment you wake up you've got
systems in place
that allow you to begin in gratitude. You
develop
systems in place that no matter what
somebody says, no matter what they do,
you learn to pause, you learn to get
curious,
and you say how can I be gratitude... be
grateful even in
this situation? You won't have to wait
for the rainbow
to enjoy the rain, and then finish the
day in gratitude.
Develop systems to finish in gratitude.
Second thing:
being reliably consistent with your
morning routines.
Most of you know, for example, I have a... I
start each day with what, I try to start
each day,
I'm not perfect, I try to start each day
with what I call PMED:
Prayer, Meditation, Exercise, and then Diet,
throughout the day.
If I can get those four things together,
working in harmony with each other, I
have great days.
Without those four things, I surrender my
control
to the day and I move into a space of
reacting
rather than being proactive with the day,
over those things that I can control.
Now how do you develop that? If you will
take
and start a routine for you, start it
each
morning so it's the same thing, something
that strengthens you,
something that inspires you. Imagine
closing, just closing your eyes
and visualizing those people that are
most close to you.
You don't have to even pray you can just
see them healthy with smiling faces.
You can see each one of them. I go
through each one of my,
I go, of course my... I have those people
that are closest to me: my wife,
my children, my grandchildren, the people
that I work with,
my colleagues, people, my clients, and
friends,
and see them happy, energetic, healthy, and profitably,
profitably
experiencing life, right. So go through
that,
looking for that reliable consistent
morning routine.
The third thing is value motion. Be "in
motion". What's the smallest step I can
take today,
that will get me in motion? Once an
object's in motion, it tends to
stay in motion. But identify for you,
what are the three things that will move
you
closest or closer to that vision that
you have for yourself or whatever you
see as the targets and these are the
things that you can visualize and see
and feel.
What's the smallest step can I take
moving there? They become drivers.
We spend way too much time contemplating
how we're going to do something, where
it's going to go, who we're going to be
involved in,
when we could be in motion and once an
object's in motion it tends to stay in
motion.
Let's get in motion. So I follow those
three rules, boom, boom, boom.
About 15 years ago, a colleague of mine
Lee Jensen, came in and he said you know
Lee, there's a book that I read every
week, and I said every week?
He said, every week. It's called the
Majesty of Calmness by William George
Jordan. He says I'm going to get you a
copy. I said great.
Well, he came back and he said I could
not find a copy anywhere, it's out of
print.
Well, that was a challenge. So I started
looking at all the antique bookstores
and here it is I found it, Majesty of
Calmness,
originally published in 1898.
Now for 15 years I've had this book, and
I have to tell you that each week that's
gone by in my life,
each year that's gone by in my life, this
book has become even more and more
valuable.
Some of you out there already know how
valuable it is because you have
either received this from me, bought this
from me, bought tons of them
to give to other people, which you
understand how important this book is.
It's a common-sense book, written in 1898
for our day-today.
Timeless, timeless, inspiring
motivation. So I'm going to make this
offer to you.
You can have it the same way that I got
it. If you go to Empowered Wealth,
my company, www.empoweredwealth.com
and put a forward slash with the letters:
M O C, for majesty of calmness you'll be able
to download there
a copy of Majesty of Calmness,
so that you can read it for yourself, and
I,
my prediction is, that if you'll do that,
it will become a good friend of yours,
just like it is mine.
It's not a book I read from cover to
cover every day. It's not a book I read
cover to cover every week.
All I have to do is open it up, almost
any page and let it inspire me and see
where I can be inspired. So if you want
to face the day, here's a tool
that you can use. I'm sure that some of
you, in addition to your scriptures or
the scriptures that I consider to be
motivational for me, to keep me in line.
Here's another book that you can use
that I think would
be very beneficial to you. I hope this is
helpful to you.
I hope that it can make the difference
for you that it has made for me.
Have a meaningful week. Follow those
three things,
and get the Majesty of Calmness. I'll
talk to you next week, bye-bye.
