AYD - June 13, 2014 - Planning or Reacting

"Both Optimists and Pessimists contribute to our society.  The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."
- Gil Stern

Do you make your plans with more focus on growth and feelings of achievement, or do you make your plans to handle the worst case scenario and consequence?

When you build your yellow brick road, do you stall the project to engineer the escape path off to the side for the "just in case" ?

It is perfectly fine to be careful, and consider consequence.  Especially if we have the well being of others to consider;  like our family and home.  We simply need to ensure that for our progressive forward momentum to that great potential of compounding "success", that we put the ratio of our energies much higher in the favor of Soaring upward to the wonderful unknown Success stars,  and much lower on the floating down - "oh crap this could really hurt" landing.

Good morning, greater day.
Greater you ... might just build an airplane.

Pierre Couturier
Husband, Daddy and Author to my Day

AYD - June 11, 2014 - Power Up

"Ask not what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive...then go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman

Power Source.  That is our quest.  What is our power source, that will respond and drive us when we hit the switch?

Find something you do, or more often for many of us, something we once did ... that releases a passion inside.   If you are doing it, embrace it a little more with the gratitude you have for what it brings out of you.  If you used to embrace it, then rekindle the friendship and retrace your old footprints on how to start again.

Plug in.  Reset. Power Up.  The world needs you.

Good Morning.
Greater Day.
Greater You ... is the energy many need to help light their way.

Pierre Couturier
Husband, Daddy, and Author to my Day.

AYD - May 29, 2014 - You say Tomato, They say Toe-mato

"People who go to the top think differently than others." - John Maxwell

"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; Nothing expands possibilities like unleashed thinking." - William Arthur Ward

People who go to the top ... we read this and our mind leaps to the penthouse suite or the image of a person standing in the corner office of a big corporation.  The stereotypical image is one that is very automatic.  The subliminal connection to success.  The auto fill of our thinking.

However, I challenge you to allow, like we always do at AYD, to allow these blanket concepts of overall growth and googled images of success to actually begin right here and now.

You can get to the top of your Day ... just by thinking differently than others.  Look around at those who wear their choices for all to see.  Look for the obstacle people and avoid repeating their actions. 

Standing at the top of your day is a spring board for other enthusiastic take overs.  Choose wisely.  Look for the folks that are off the leash.  It is contagious to even watch them walk.

Now...
Good morning, becomes a greater day.
A Greater You, Becomes a Beacon for others to think differently.

Pierre Couturier
A different husband, A different Daddy, and a wordy babbling expression loving Author to my Day.

AYD - May 27, 2014 - Laughter, A Good Part of Any Plan

" If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. "
- George Burns

Sometimes, a simple yet obvious truth, can be the best advice.

Good morning, greater day.
Greater you, is wonderful to discover.

Pierre Couturier
Husband, Daddy and Author to My Day.