Your Monday Motivation

There’s going to be times when you have so much work to do or so many problems to solve that it will feel like you might never get out of the woods. When this happens you have to use your mental calories in the right places so that you don’t burn out before you get out of the woods.

Burglars are scum bags.  They take things that you can’t replace, but they also violate the privacy of your home.  Our neighbors just got robbed and it made me think back to when our home got robbed. I share how it made me feel and also some of the good that can come from a Burglary.  You may even want to use my Mom’s thought process as you clean out your home.

The weather is changing and the world is changing. Take advantage of this time to change your routine and spice up your life. If you want to be more productive and more creative, use this tip to do it.

Did you read that title twice and are you still wondering if it’s written wrong? Today on your Monday Motivation I share a quote that seemed to make the world clearer for me. I think you’ll like it too. The title is true. Knowledge leads to ignorance, but understanding is beautiful thing!

What you believe can create wealth, destroy wealth, help you, hurt you, make your life better, or worse and what you believe will also affect other people too. There’s a time to keep on believing what you believe and there are also times to re-examine your beliefs and change them if necessary. Here are some thoughts about what you should believe and why you shouldn’t feel bad about changing your beliefs. Listen Now on Your Monday Motivation.

We’re getting our youngest German Shepherd trained as a personal protection dog so that she barks and bites on command. Here is a dog training technique that you can use even if you don’t have a dog, because it works on humans too. If you use this technique with yourself, you can be more successful and happy.  

How can a murderer not be guilty of murder? Why is a broken relationship nobody’s fault? There are two frames through which you can look out on life. One frame leads to misery, the other to opportunity.

People are off-roading in 2-wheel drive sedans, eating fast-food and spending all of their money. Is it better to close the off-road trails or start thinking ahead more? Is it better to let people learn or keep them from failing?

If you hate changing smoke alarm batteries in the night, you’ll relate to this. This week, cut some unnecessary energy you’re spending and use that energy for other things. Listen now on Your Monday Motivation.

During quarantine some people have less available money, but they have a different form of currency to spend. How you spend your time in quarantine can determine whether you participate in this recession or not. In Your Monday Motivation, here are some thoughts about using your quarantine time. Listen now on Your Monday Motivation.

Many people are searching for real happiness. Most of the mainstream advice for finding happiness is not the way to find true happiness. As a person, there is something you can do that will cause your body to release chemicals that will make you feel happy.  That’s what’s on Your Monday Motivation this morning.

Some people have a big win followed by a devastating loss.  Sometimes the loss even nullifies the win.  Have you seen it? It’s the classic example of winning a battle but losing the war. In this episode of Your Monday Motivation there’s some good advice about how to keep winning when you win. It’s second hand advice, but it’s good…

It’s not always easier to buy time, i.e. hire things done, at first because hiring things done requires a new skill set and involves different possibilities. If you are a Do It Yourselfer (DIYer), this episode of Your Monday Motivation will give you a great excuse that makes all of us DIYers proud that we chose to do it ourselves.

Do you ever feel like a hopeless do it your-selfer? Sometimes I feel like I want to do everything myself! Time is a big reality check for do it your-selfers (DIYers)!  Trying to do everything can actually waste time, but hiring things done can redeem time. How can you still get fulfillment from doing things yourself and buy yourself more time? Should you DIY or not DIY? That is the question! And the answer is (hopefully) in your Monday Motivation.

Language in our society will continue to devolve by nature. It’s the law of entropy.  Meaningless phrases and expressions are everywhere. People say things all the time that they don’t really mean. But have you ever met someone who put a bumper sticker on their car and didn’t believe in the message on the sticker? ...Here is your Monday Motivation

Many of the decisions people make today are heavily influenced by what they assume other people will think of them. The man in Your Monday Motivation today is a great example of someone who seemed as if he couldn’t care less what other people thought of him. It’s quite a story. You’ll want to give it a listen.

Learning new things is often way more involved than it appears to be at first glance because you don’t know what you don’t know. I just learned something new about jet aircraft the other day and thankfully I didn’t have to learn the hard way. There is an easy way to learn and a harder way to learn. This week use the easy way from this episode of Your Monday Motivation.

Would you burn newspaper if someone told you it would plug your chimney? If you feel like false information and stupidity circulate too quickly in our society today, you will love the quotes in your Monday Motivation this morning. One quote is from Mark Twain, the other quote is by… well, go listen to it.

This Man is 104 years old.  His name is Dave McCoy. He started one of the largest ski resorts in North America.  He stopped skiing when he had a knee replacement at the age of 92. He sold the ski resort in 2005 but he didn’t completely retire, he has a new business now. Listen to your Monday Motivation to hear the story of Dave McCoy and how he is still making every day count at age 104!

I had a bad experience on a dirt bike ride this weekend, but as they say bad experiences can make good stories and this one did not disappoint.  It turns out this particular experience is a great metaphor for life. Listen to this Monday Motivation as you roll into your week so you can keep riding ahead and make progress with ease.

Struggling to scale a 25 ft vertical wall, I asked a fellow climber for advice. He came over, talked his way through the course and then proceeded to demonstrate...

70mph down the freeway, pitch black darkness outside and the car in front of me is weaving back and forth in its lane touching first one white line, then across the lane to the other white line. I gas up to pass them and as I pull up alongside, I see...

Programming your mind with every book you read and movie you watch.

Is it bad to make New Year Resolutions? 

Breaking down in the middle of nowhere on the Loneliest Road In America.

You are cruising along in your car, music cranked up and full of the joyful Christmas merriness. All of the sudden, you see the blue lights in your rear view mirror and...

Here’s  a really nice guy who made it most of the way, and just before he gets to the point everyone looks forward to reaching, he throws in the towel.  Was it the fact that him and his wife are getting divorced after 25 years? Or is it more of a focus issue with a lack of long-term thinking? …get this story of near success and a potential remedy on Your Monday Motivation.

Grandma turned 92 on Pearl Harbor Day. She was 14 years old when the Japanese bombed the U.S. Naval fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Could that tragedy have been avoided if one man in power had simply done his job instead of lecturing another man on his morals? Listen to that story now on Your Monday Motivation.

On a flight from Seattle, home to Las Vegas, something unusual happened. Thanks to favorable winds, the flight was a noticeably shorter than normal but it’s what happened on the ground in Vegas that I want to tell you about...

A lot of people make the grave mistake of closing the doors to their mind... curbing their curiosity and leaving learning opportunities behind because they're afraid. But that's not going to be you... at least, not this week!

The airshow begins with some older war birds like the T28 Trojan and the P51 Mustang but it doesn’t stop there, you also see modern day fighters like the f15 the f16, the f22 and even the newest and most advanced fighter in the world, the F35! And to put the icing on the cake, the...

55 of the 56 men who signed The Declaration of Independence just signed their name. But one of the men signed his name followed by the name of his estate. What was that about?

Carl, a 10 years old boy in Germany, was given the assignment of adding up all the numbers 1 through 100. Out of all the boys in the classroom that day, Carl was the only boy who got the right answer... and he didn't even use a slate! Here's what he...

In a presidential campaign many years ago when Teddy Roosevelt was running for office, his campaign team printed up 3 million promotional brochures that would be taken by train and distributed door to door. But when the flyers were printed, someone noticed...

Once a year in Las Vegas Police dogs come from California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada to compete in the Las Vegas Metro K9 Trials. The competition includes drug sniffing, an agility course and a section where the dog must apprehend bad guys. At the end of the agility course, there is a...

I happened to be in the local O’Reilly Auto Parts store the other day looking for a replacement O-Ring. O’Reilly keeps their O-Rings behind the counter so I walked up to the counter and told the guy that I thought the O-Ring I needed would be a metric O-Ring and asked if he could get his metric O-Rings. He said... 

The oldest barber in world was still cutting hair at 108 years old. His name was Anthony Mancinelli. Anthony started cutting hair when he was just 12 years old...

“We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.”

Surfer competes for the 2020 Olympic Games with a borrowed surf board and a pair of jean shorts.

A number of year's ago someone told me there was a hike in Zion National Park called Angel's Landing. To reach the pinnacle, you have to climb on narrow ledges and sloping surfaces near sheer drops of nearly 1,000 feet without safety rails, just a single...

I met a man recently who is an aircraft mechanic. He's been an aircraft mechanic for more than 30 years. He was an aircraft mechanic in the military, now he works for American Airlines. Almost every night he...

Happy Labor Day!  Have you ever wondered why almost every day of your year is a labor day, but the day actually named labor day tends to be a holiday? Kind of crazy isn’t it… but Labor Day being a holiday isn’t the only self-contradictory thing you’ve heard of...

It’s my birthday today. Birthdays are good for you, research has proven that people who have had more birthdays have lived longer! Currently, best health practices recommend having 1 per year. To borrow a line from Steven Wright, "I’m planning to...

Age 7 is the first time I remember wanting to be able to do a handstand. I'd pretend that I could by kicking up for a short time and enjoying the split-second before my feet touched ground again… sometimes not so...

The Alaskan waters were like glass as we headed out to fish. Then the wind picked up and waves with whitecaps appeared. Pulling the anchor, we decided to head back...

As I record this motivational moment for you, I’m speaking into the microphone with clarity and energy and this is where you may wonder, do I always sound like this am I always upbeat, positive, high energy outgoing, and flamboyant? If you want an honest to goodness, straight shot, bible truth answer, the answer is...

The location is Albuquerque New Mexico, the day is June 29th. The time is 5:30am our family is preparing to go on our first ever hot air balloon ride. We climb into the wicker basket...

While living in Virginia our family had 4 established apple trees in the side yard. One evening while we were out in the yard just before it got dark Dad noticed...

The week before you go on vacation... when your normal "to-do" list for a single day doubles in size as the days fly by.

Do you host bad habits like Texas or New Mexico?

Should you break or keep traditions?