It has to start somewhere

Hello everyone and welcome.  This is the first Monday Morning Motivational Minute story I wrote for my colleagues at work.  I was reading The 8^th Habit by Steven Covey, his follow-up to 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and was deeply struck by his description of the 8th habit.

  

The 8^th habit is- “Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs”.

I decided that he was absolutely right and the result was weekly stories to my coworkers designed inspire them.  I owe the original spark of life that eventually lead to this blog to Steven Covey and the actual name, Monday Morning Motivational Minute to my good friend Steve Shefter.

I strongly recommend that everyone read this powerful book because at it core, The 8^th Habit is about the boundlessness of the human spirit. 

This has special meaning to me because it is exactly what I am trying to do in the first place with these Monday morning segments.  Steven Covey recognizes something that I think we all understand intuitively.  He points out that the human spirit has an undeniable need to be significant and meaningful.  The problem is that this is easier to say than it is to achieve.  If it were easy, the world would be a much more perfect place.

Fortunately for us as human beings, fundamentally, our greatest natural gift is that we have a mind that gives us the power to choose.  The following words put that nicely into perspective.

“Between Stimulus and response there is a space.  In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response.  In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.”

– author unknown

“Until a person can honestly say that I am what I am, and I am where I am, because I choose to be there, that person can not say with conviction – I choose otherwise.”

- Steven Covey

Everyone have a great week, make your choices, be significant and be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.