The cure for sadness is not happiness!  Most people seek all sorts of ways to make them "happy" when they are "sad".  Most of those "ways" leave them unhappy and even more sad.  The solution to sadness is not happiness.  The solution to sadness is GRATITUDE.  When we are thankful for what we have, we spend less time seeing what we don't have.  And when we actually don't have anything, we truly see all that we had.  ​“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” Oscar Wilde

.. in another man's field".  This is the OG (Old Greek) of the more common saying "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence".  Both refer to the fact that EVERYONE seems to believe that the "unseen" or the "alternative" is better than what we currently have.  Different major, different job, different house, different spouse, different something must be better than what I already have.  Unfortunately, the one important aspect of this belief is that we may change majors or jobs or locations, but one common factor remains the same ... US.  “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.’ ―A.C. Benson

At the end of the day, you can't do much about what occurred during your day other than reflect and evaluate and then hopefully make the next day better.  At the beginning of the day, you have the choice of setting yourself up for regret or setting yourself up for celebration.  ​“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ―George Lorimer

Big things and little things?  If that is our perspective then we will always be little and never be as big as we can be.  There are no little things.  There are simply things we will do to be successful and things we think and feel that are not worth our time and effort and those are the things that keep us from reaching our full potential.  ​“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” Vincent Van Gogh

We all have favorites.  Favorite colors.  Favorite foods.  Favorite songs, movies, shows, people.  My favorite word is "intentionality".  I try to be intentional.  I feel it is important to be intentional.  I feel being prepared and planning ahead is better than simply allowing life to happen to you.  I love intentional people.  I surround myself with people who are intentional about how they live life. Intentional people are more likely to reach their full potential than people who are waiting for good to happen to them and then complain when it doesn't. ​“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” ―Michael Jordan

When I was younger, and everyone was wearing NIKE shirts that said, "Just Do It", and occasionally the fonts of the shirt would run the words together, I would always ask, "What's Doit?"(I guess I haven't changed much).  Obviously, the marketing strategy from NIKE was built on encouraging everyone to get off their butts and "do it", whatever it was, and hopefully that "it" involved buying their overly priced merch.  For those who are motivated by having a chip on their shoulder or the desire to prove others wrong, I wonder how the "You Can't Do It" marketing campaign would have worked?  “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh

"The world is going to hell in a handbasket" was a phrase that my dad would say about once a day.  We knew what it meant (but didn't really know what it meant because what in the hell is a handbasket anyway).  His point was that the world/society was getting worse not better.  One of the reasons that our society is deteriorating is because people are looking to do things but only under specific conditions.  "I will do it under one condition" or "I will do it if ..." or "It just doesn't "feel" right".  Those "conditions" are what stops us from actually doing anything of value and from reaching our full potential as an individual, team or society.  ​“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” Sheryl Sandberg

I have a problem with "It's Monday" or "TGIF" person.  To me, they are like the little kid who says every morning, "Do I HAVE to go to school today?".  The problem is that the former is usually 30 years older in age than the later.  At some point, we need to grow up and stop describing neutral things in life as being negative (yes, the TGIF person is basically saying that M-F sucks compared to the weekend).  What a horrible way to go through life when 5/7 of your life sucks.  We need to give ourselves a chance to succeed and not sabotage it before it starts. “It’s Monday … time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go!” --Heather Stillufsen