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Nov 14 2022

Motivational Minute: Good Enough

“The beautiful thing about today is that you get the choice to make it better than yesterday.” (Robin Sharma)
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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.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Charles Swindoll, Fail Forward, Good attitude, Habits, Little Things, Make your bed, Monday, Monday Motivation, Motivation, Motivational Minute, Overcoming Adversity, Positive leadership, positivity, Success is a Choice, Win the Day, Yogi Berra

Nov 07 2022

Motivational Minute: Thoughts Into Action

 

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.

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Things don’t change by themselves.

This is an important concept to remember today.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Charles Swindoll, Cherokee Indian, Fail Forward, Feed the dog, Feed the good wolf, Good attitude, Habits, Life Lesson, Little Things, Make your bed, Monday, Monday Motivation, Motivation, Motivational Minute, Overcoming Adversity, Positive leadership, positivity, Success is a Choice, Win the Day, wolves, Yogi Berra

Oct 30 2022

Motivational Minute: The Wolves

 

An old Cherokee Indian chief sat down to teach his grandson about life.

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“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.”

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Charles Swindoll, Cherokee Indian, Fail Forward, Feed the dog, Feed the good wolf, Good attitude, Habits, Life Lesson, Little Things, Make your bed, Monday, Monday Motivation, Motivation, Motivational Minute, Overcoming Adversity, Positive leadership, positivity, Success is a Choice, Win the Day, wolves, Yogi Berra

Jul 25 2022

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do

“Tough times don’t last but tough people do.” (Robert Schuller)

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Amy Morin was a newly married 23-year-old therapist. Suddenly, her mother died due to a brain aneurysm.

On the three-year anniversary of her mother’s death, her husband died of a heart attack. 

When she remarried years later, her second husband’s father died of cancer.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Abe Lincoln, Amy morin, author, Bhrett McCabe, Inspiration, Lauren Johnson, mental toughness, Monday Motivation, Motivational Minute, Overcome adversity, Podcast, Success is a Choice

Jun 13 2022

Motivational Minute: Burn the Boats

​“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” (Jim Rohn)

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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some far away country, it’s been said that the sixteen-century Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes would immediately burn his own boats.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Burning the boats, Elminating Excuses, excuses, Explorers, Hernando Cortes, Kevin Templeton, Making Excuses, Monday Motivation, Motivational Monday, Opportunities, Responsibility, To The Hilt

Feb 14 2022

Motivational Minute: Mondays

“Doing the little things can make a big difference.” (Yogi Berra)
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Today is Monday. Yikes!

Nothing like a case of the Mondays to get us down.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Personal Growth · Tagged: Charles Swindoll, Fail Forward, Good attitude, Habits, Little Things, Make your bed, Monday, Monday Motivation, Motivation, Motivational Minute, Overcoming Adversity, Positive leadership, positivity, Success is a Choice, Win the Day, Yogi Berra

Nov 08 2021

Motivational Minute: Our Choices Today

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” (Aristotle)

Most choices that we have in life are simple.

Knowing the right thing to do is not the hard part rather choosing to do the right thing is the difficult part.

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I love Diet Dr. Pepper, Kit Kats, and Twizzlers. These are my favorite snacks.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Personal Growth · Tagged: Aristotle, Choices, decision making, Goals, Habits, Inspiration, Monday Motivation, Motivation, Motivational, Motivational Minute, Motivational Mondays, Success is a Choice

Dec 12 2019

Episode 132: Compete Every Day with Jake Thompson

Jake Thompson is the Founder & Chief Encouragement Officer at the global lifestyle brand Compete Every Day.  He is a speaker, writer, & active participant in life. Prior to launching CED, Jake spent years in both the sports representation industry & later, as a creative & strategic marketing consultant. Now, he is focused on utilizing his passion for changing lives to remind all that their life is worth competing for. For Jake everyday is a competition against pride, comfort zone, fear, complacency, snooze alarms, bad habits and bad relations. Jake teaches people through speaking podcast and popular apparel brand to compete everyday.

In today’s episode, we discuss:
  • How to win each day
  • Dealing with comparisons
  • Handling the haters
  • … and so much more!!!

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Podcast Episodes, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Compete Every Day, Exercise, Grant Baldwin, Health, inspirational, Jake Thompson, Life Balance, Monday Motivation, Motivational Mondays, Motivational Speaker, Win the Day, Work-Life Balance

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