Monday Morning Motivations Tenacity Pays

Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
November 2, 2009 Issue 375

From the Desk of Bob

I broke down again and let my daughter get a new kitten. I hope I made the right decision. Yes again, adding to our menagerie of animals and our many feathered friends who make their home here with us. It is amazing how our animals are good for our blood pressure. They are so soothing. That is good I guess for my health. Well one this for sure is my daughter is so very happy. When Elie is happy that makes me happy. I like causing other people to be happy.

Keep bringing others joy! Bob

My Upcoming Speaking Agenda:
11/14/09 - District 5 SE Lions Forum- Sioux Falls - Motivational Talk
1/13/10 - SD Rural Water Board- Keys to Better Leadership Training
4/28/10 - Minnesota Sheriffs' Association - Key Note

Recent Past Speaking Engagements:
2/09/09- Enemy Swim Day School - Waubay, SD
2/26/09- Teton Coalition, Inc.- Rapid City, South Dakota
2/27/09- SDCTE Conference- Chamberlain, SD
3/5 - 3/6/09 - Opportunities, Inc.-Great Falls Head Start
3/18 - 3/19/09 SD County Commissioners Conference, Pierre, SD
3/20/09- Riley Brothers Construction- Morris MN
3/26/09- Teton Coalition- Rapid City, SD
4/7/09 - Sanford Health Conference, Winner, SD
4/23/09- Teton Coalition, Inc.- Rapid City, SD
4/24/09- SDSRT Conference,- Rapid City, SD
5/12/09 - Walmart - Huron - Leadership Training
5/19/09 - Golden Triangle, Cavour, SD - Leadership Training
5/28/09 - Teton Coalition, Inc. - Rapid City, SD - Leadership Training
6/16/09- RC Family of Companies- New Effington, SD - Special Meeting Speaker
6/18/09 - Teton Coalition, Inc. - Rapid City, SD - Leadership Training
6/19/09 - Rausch Granite Systems - Rapid City, SD - Leadership Training
7/23/09 - Dow Rummel Retirement Center - Sioux Falls, SD - Staff Meetings
8/17-20/09- SDDC- Redfield, SD Staff Development and Leadership Training
10/2/09 - Sitting Bull School - McLaughlin, SD - Teacher Inservice

Attitudes to Live By

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?Albert Camus

"All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out." –Albert Camus

"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter." –Albert Camus

Seeds of Success: Finding Happiness in the Little Things

By Robert A. Prentice

A person must strategically purpose in their life whether they are going to be a happy person or not. Over my lifetime I have encountered so many people who have lost their joy. Daily we must awake and make a mental decision to find happiness in the little things that surface in the living of our life. Sometimes who must proactively seek and look for joy in the littlest of things.

The other day when my wife came home from work I had dinner made for her, I made her a cup of tea and gave it to her in her favorite chair as she relaxed I ran a bathtub full of warm bubbly water for her to soak away all her stress. I had so much fun just planning a preparing my little gifts for her that I could not contain all my happiness. It just spilled all over in my natural enthusiasm. These were just a handful of little things that I did to bring joy to another person. Boy, what a huge impact this all had on my dear wife. She was of course kind of in shock. This is not my norm. I could tell she really appreciated my little gifts of kindness as I caught her telling several of her girl friends about it. I honestly think it was one of the best days I have had in quite awhile.

I share this with you not to brag on myself in any manner whatsoever. I share this to simply encourage you to find the little things that will bring happiness to another and it is there that you will bring greater happiness into your life.

It is vital that you think small, think creative, think out of the normal. Surprise those that you care for with a gift of little things and trust me at the same time it will bring you much joy and happiness. Never in my life have I been so rich.

On the Sunny Side of Life: Alabaster Boxes

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up, until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness.

Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say them before they go.

The flowers you mean to send-use to brighten and sweeten their homes before they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered when I need them.

Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand. Post-mortem kindness do not cheer the burdened spirit. Flowers cast no fragrance backward over the weary way.

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