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

The condition of scarcity refers to the belief that there are limited resources or that resources are in short supply.  Imagine a pie. There is only a limited amount of pieces to go around.  Jealousy is rooted in scarcity.  We are jealous of others because we feel that they not only have more than we do but that in order for us to have equal or more, we must get it from them.  They become our competition.  Living under the bondage of scarcity will impede our growth and our joy.  Instead of looking at life as a pie that requires "you to get yours", view life as a bakery where you can make endless numbers of pies and either eat them yourself, sell them to others, or give them away.  If someone has more pie than me, it helps me to see what is possible so I go out and make my own pie.  ​“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.”  No specific credit is given to this quote because a bunch of people have said this because it is an obvious statement.

Choose your Hard!  “You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.”  Unknown

​Bonus Video ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQ18p8zu74 

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”  John Lyndgate/Abe Lincoln

It is both astonishing and sad the amount of time and energy and effort that humans spend trying to please others.  If we use any logic or rational thought and examine our past, we see that our efforts to please everyone are a complete failure.  We will never please anyone to the level we expect or to the level that they require.  This repeated failure causes people countless hours and days and years and lifetimes to be wasted while trying to solve the unsolvable to please everyone.  Our purpose in life should not be to  be "liked" or even "loved" by everyone we encounter.  Our purpose should also not be to "be right".  Our purpose should be to do right.

​“Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway.” Eleanor Roosevelt

It is obvious that we can learn from others.  Unfortunately, we often choose who we feel is worthy to learn from.  I was talking with a coach about 25 years ago who was a Hall of Fame coach and someone everyone sought out to for knowledge.  He mentioned he had just met with another coach I also knew but this coach was not very successful.  He said, "I can always learn something from anyone".  “Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” Socrates

There is a vast difference between "10 years of experience" and "One year of experience repeated 10 times".  Simply living life for a long period of time may not equate to "experience" or "maturity" or "growth".  There are a lot of immature and underachieving adults on the planet, who have lived the same day over and over again and their past and present are not much different.  In order to reach our full potential, today must be different than yesterday and WE must be different than we were yesterday, as well.  ​“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll