Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
Good enough is sometimes not good enough.
Today, we should be aware of times when we accept mediocrity . . . when we accept less than our best.
Sometimes we take the easy way out.
Sir Isaac Newton had three laws of motion and the first law essentially said that every object will remain at rest until acted upon by an outside force.
Things don’t change by themselves.
This is an important concept to remember today.
An old Cherokee Indian chief sat down to teach his grandson about life.
“There’s a fight going on inside me,” he tells the young boy, “a fight between two wolves.”
“One wolf is evil. It’s full of malice, anger, greed, self-pity, and false pride. The other is good. It’s full of peace, love, joy, kindness, and humility.”
Once upon a time in a small Italian town, a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable.
She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed like life was one problem after the next.
The next day her father, who was a chef, took her to the kitchen. He boiled three pots of water. He placed potatoes in one, eggs in another, and ground coffee beans in the third.
Of course, the daughter waited impatiently, wondering what he was doing.
Today is Monday. Yikes!
Nothing like a case of the Mondays to get us down.
Retired Army staff sergeant Joey Jones lost both of his legs when an IED exploded in Afghanistan.
The legendary Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini was playing a difficult piece of music before a large audience. Suddenly one string on his violin snapped, yet he continued to play, improvising beautifully. Then two more strings broke, and he completed the composition playing with only one string.
“A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities. An optimist is one who makes opportunities out of his difficulties”Â
It has often been said, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Lemons by themselves are sour. Lemons with sugar and water become delicious lemonade.
This phrase is a reminder to us about making the best of things that come our way.
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” (Carl Gustav Jung)
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” (Theodore Roosevelt)
Are you going through a mid-life crisis?   “IT IS WHAT IT IS”
Have you been passed over for a promotion?   “IT IS WHAT IT IS”
Is your girlfriend is a nag?   “IT IS WHAT IT IS”
Your parents don’t understand you?   “IT IS WHAT IT IS”
You say your husband doesn’t listen to you? Â “IT IS WHAT IT IS”
Are the people around you are idiots?   “IT IS WHAT IT IS”
Hearing “It is what it is” makes me want to punch someone. And then when they’d complain, I’d just say, “Sorry, but it is what it is”
