Monday Morning Motivations Tenacity Pays

Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
September 8, 2008 Issue 317

From the Desk of Bob

Greetings!

I have an opportunity to speak to a good number of people in Pierre, SD the middle of this week. I am really looking forward to sharing some of my thoughts on leadership, performance standards and clarification of expectations, since these are three of my most favorite subjects. I only have 45 minutes to share and I will just about get warmed up before I have to let them go. My goal is to plant positive seeds of influence and encouragement for these leaders.

The reason I share this with you is that every day I must review these vital subjects in my dealings both personally and professionally. I must not just know and review these powerful key principles, but I must apply them and actually live them out if they are to work in my life. The key is application.

Hope you have a terrific week! Bob

Life Attitudes

Orison Swett Marden: "Wisdom is knowledge, which has become a part of one's being."

Anton Chekhov: "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."

Samuel Johnson: "Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."

Seeds of Success: Adopt, Adapt and Apply

By Robert A. Prentice

It is one thing to know something, and entirely different to apply what you know consistently in your life. Yes, there is power in knowledge, but there is so much more power in taking that knowledge and doing something productive and result producing with it. Having all the knowledge in the world doesn't amount to much if we never apply it. We must take the knowledge we have and actually do something with it!

Here are some examples of what I mean:
* If we know the value of planning and we know how to plan, yet we fail to plan, what have we gained? Therefore, in order for our knowledge of planning to mean anything at all, we who know how to plan will be planners!

* If we know the best way to treat people is to be kind and gentle to them, and yet fail to consistently treat others with kindness and gentleness, can we really say that being kind and gentle is very important to us? But when we do know that gentleness and kindness is a must, we will be kind and gentle!

* If we know the importance of encouraging others, but go around criticizing people all the time, does it really matter what we know? Because it is important to encourage others, we will be an encouragement to others.

The point is, if you know something, then just simply do it!

Finally today I encourage you to approach life with this attitude and watch to see what happens: Adopt, adapt and apply positive, healthy, and sound principles into your life every day. Carefully filter out the junk in this world and take hold of and adopt the things that make sense, taking responsibility for these things; then adapt them to your methods of operation and ways of getting things done and apply them with every opportunity that comes your way.

See everything in life as an opportunity. Grasp it! Seize it! Hang on with both hands and go for the joy ride!

On the Sunny Side of Life: PARROT AT AUCTION

One day David went to an auction. While he was there, he bid for a parrot. David really wanted this bird, so he got caught up and thoroughly involved in the bidding. He kept on bidding, but kept getting outbid, so he bid higher and higher and higher.

Finally, after he had bid much more than he had intended, David won the bid; the parrot was his at last.

As he was paying for the parrot, he said to the auctioneer, "I hope this parrot can talk. I would hate to have paid this much for it, only to find out that he can't talk!"

"Don't worry." said the auctioneer, "He can talk. Who do you think kept bidding against you?"

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