DDD
Grand Canyon, South Kaibab Trail 2021
DDD: Duke's Daily Dose
These are from daily texts from Coach Mike. He gets all the credit. :-)
Hal Urban wrote a book for his 3 sons called Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter. The 20 Lessons:
1. Success is More Than Making Money.
2. Life is Hard…and Not Always Fair.
3. Life is Also Fun…and Incredibly Funny.
4. We Live by Choice, Not by Chance.
5. Attitude Is a Choice – The Most Important One You'll Ever Make.
6. Habits Are the Key to All Success.
7. Be Thankful – The Best Habit.
8. Be Respectful.
9. Be Honest.
10. Kind Words Cost Little but Accomplish Much.
11. Real Motivation Comes from Within.
12. Goals are Dreams with Deadlines.
13. There's No Substitute for Hard Work.
14. You Have to Give Up Something to Get Something.
15. Successful People Don't Find Time – They Make Time.
16. No One Else Can Raise Your Self-esteem.
17. The Body Needs Nutrition and Exercise – So Do the Mind and Spirit.
18. It's OK to Fail – Everyone Else Has.
19. Life is Simpler When You Know What's Essential.
20. Most Essential: Be a Good Person.
Norman Vincent Peale quotes:
Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Give everyone a smile.
Make all your friends feel there is something special in them.
Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
"Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others." H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition." H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone." John C. Maxwell
"80% of success is to keep showing up." Woody Allen
▪️”I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”Abraham Lincoln
▪️”Hard work spotlights the Character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.” Sam Ewing
▪️”When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when Character is lost, all is lost.” Billy Graham
▪️”Reputation is what men and women think of us; Character is what God and Angels know of us. Thomas Paine
Success doesn’t follow what we do occasionally. Success follows what we do consistently.
Motivation is what gets us started; making it a habit gets us there.
Being disciplined is Hard. The consequences of being undisciplined is Hard. Pick your Hard.
Strength is overcoming the thing we once thought we couldn’t do.
Success comes from consistently doing what most people won’t do.
My effort is solely my responsibility.
We have what it takes but it will take everything we have.
Today let’s starve the negative and feed the positive.
While we are out there today getting where we are getting to, let’s enjoy the road we are on and try not to do what we will regret and help somebody every chance we get.
Sometimes, we may hear the whisper, “You are not strong enough to withstand the storm.” Let’s whisper back, “We are going to be the storm.”
Never let the things we want make us forget the things we already have.
In the pursuit of excellence, only your best repetitions push you toward greatness. Counting bad repetitions or subpar effort leaves you chasing mediocrity.
--Luke Denny
▪️”He knew that all he had to do was to place one foot in front of the other. The simplicity of it was joyful. If he kept going forward, he would of course arrive.”
▪️”If we just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that we are going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more that we need to. Why else would we have feet?” Rachel Joyce
▪️ “The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.” Anonymous
▪️”Just keep placing one foot in front of the other. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm up.” Anonymous
▪️“Focus only on where you are right now. Then carefully take one step at a time, by placing just one foot in front of the other.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1
▪️ “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”
▪️”Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”
▪️”Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.”
▪️”You can't hire someone to practice for you.”
▪️”Compliment three people every day.”
▪️”Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.”
▪️”Find satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
▪️”Many will start fast, few will finish strong.” Gary Ryan Blair
▪️”No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. But it isn’t the start that matters. It’s the finish line.” Julien Smith
▪️”Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” Calvin Coolidge
Proverbs are expressions of Wisdom. Here are some snippets of Proverbial Wisdom.
▪️ “The poor carpenter blames his tools.”
▪️”When you want to make an omelet, you need to break a few eggs.”
▪️”A tree is known by its fruit."
▪️”The chameleon changes color to match the earth. The earth doesn’t change colors to match the chameleon.”
▪️”Complaining is the weak person’s weapon.”
▪️”Dig the well before you are thirsty.”
▪️”An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”
▪️”Out of acceptance comes wisdom. Not an acquisition of wisdom is, not knowledge wisdom is, not information. This quality of tremendous acceptance is wisdom.”
Yoda
▪️ "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." *Muhammad Ali
No coach, mentor, inspirational speaker, background theme music band, group of fans, reporter, wife, girl friend, etc. can fight for you.
▪️ “We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.”
▪️”Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
▪️ “Motivation is what gets us started. Habit is what keeps us going.”
▪️”We don’t get paid for the hour. We get paid for the value we bring to the hour.”
▪️”The big challenge is to become all that we have the possibility of becoming. We cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to Maximize our human potential and stretch ourselves to the limit.”
▪️ “Days are expensive. When we spend a day we have one less day to spend. So make sure we spend each one wisely.”
Jim Rohn
▪️”In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”
▪️”When you lose, don't lose the lesson.”
▪️”Follow the three R's:
- Respect for self.
- Respect for others.
- Responsibility for all your actions.”
▪️”Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
▪️”Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.”
▪️”Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.”
▪️”Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Personalities as Punctuation.”
▪️Sometimes we seem to know exactly who we are and where we are going. We have it all figured out. We are “Personalities with a Period”.
▪️Sometimes the “Delightful Challenges” in our lives changes that period to a question mark. We become “Personalities with a Question Mark”. Who are we? Where are we going? What just happened? Now what do I do? We don’t have this life thing all figured out?
▪️Let’s work together to become “Personalities with an Exclamation Point”!
Excited! Enthusiastic!
A Positive Force! A Person of Faith! Compassionate! Thankful! Grateful! Fearless! Honest! Work Power! Disciplined! Tough! Loyal! Inspiring! Extraordinary!
Reliable! Responsible! Humble! Gritty! A Samurai! A Fighter! Genuine! A Leader by Example!
▪️”We become what we give our attention to, for better or worse.”
▪️”Our time is our life, and our attention is the doorway to our hearts.”
▪️”Because what you give your attention to is the person you become. Put another way: the mind is the portal to the soul, and what you fill your mind with will shape the trajectory of your Character. In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to.”
▪️The average American reads two hundred to four hundred words per minute. At that speed we could read two hundred books a year in just 417 hours. Sounds like a lot, right? 417? That’s over an hour a day. But can you guess how much time the average American spends on social media each year? The number is 705 hours. TV … 2,737.5 hours!
John Mark Comer
“Understanding requires mastery of four ways of looking at things: as they were, as they are, as they might become, and as they ought to be.” —Dee Hock
“The world is split between those who don't know how to start making money and those who don't know when to stop.”
—Nassim Taleb
“People like you more when you are working towards something, not when you have it.”
—Drake
▪️ "A person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language."
▪️ "Pay less attention to what people say. Just watch what they do."
▪️ "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
Dale Carnegie
▪️”If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.”
▪️”Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.
Jigoro Kano
▪️”You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.” Khalil Gibran
▪️ “A Warrior’s mission is to foster the success of others.”
▪️”Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba
▪️”I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us.”
▪️”A setback is a setup for a comeback.”
▪️”Excellence requires discomfort.”
▪️”Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.” Bishop T.D. Jakes
Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up. - Spryte Loriano
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. - James A. Michener
Never hope for it more than you work for it. - Sonya Teclai
“It’s never crowded along the extra mile.”
“Give yourself a gift of 5 minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regime of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.”
▪️”Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.”
▪️”You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, & the actions you take.”
▪️”History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.”
▪️”You Can’t Hire Someone Else to Do Your Push-ups for You.”
▪️ Jack Canfield is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 50 languages. He was rejected by 123 publishers when he first proposed the idea for his book.
▪️We know two important things about laughter. The first one we’ve known since early childhood, it always feels good to laugh. Second, there’s a mountain of scientific evidence suggesting that it’s good for our health.
▪️”Laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for a while."
▪️”Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother"
Barbara Johnson
▪️”I have not seen anyone dying of laughter, but I know millions who are dying because they are not laughing.” Unknown
Hal Urban wrote a book for his 3 sons called Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter.
The 20 Lessons:
1. Success is More Than Making Money
2. Life is Hard…and Not Always Fair
3. Life is Also Fun…and Incredibly Funny
4. We Live by Choice, Not by Chance
5. Attitude Is a Choice – The Most Important One You'll Ever Make
6. Habits Are the Key to All Success
7. Be Thankful – The Best Habit
8. Be Respectful
9. Be Honest
10. Kind Words Cost Little but Accomplish Much
11. Real Motivation Comes from Within
12. Goals are Dreams with Deadlines
13. There's No Substitute for Hard Work
14. You Have to Give Up Something to Get Something
15. Successful People Don't Find Time – They Make Time
16. No One Else Can Raise Your Self-esteem
17. The Body Needs Nutrition and Exercise – So Do the Mind and Spirit
18. It's OK to Fail – Everyone Else Has
19. Life is Simpler When You Know What's Essential
20. Most Essential: Be a Good Person.
▪️ “The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.” Louis L’Amour
▪️”At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.”
▪️”Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
▪️”The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.”
▪️”Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me. ‘Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words, ‘This too shall pass’.”
▪️”There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say ‘Here I am’ and those who walk into a room and say, ‘There you are.”
▪️”A good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.”
Ann Landers
Worry and anxiety have hounded the human race since the beginning of time. With all our modern innovations, we have not found the cure for the plague of worry and anxiety.
· “Worry is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.” – Erma Bombeck
· “Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.” – Nelson DeMille
· “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill
· “Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” – Arthur Somers Roche
· “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you.” – Jesus (John 14:27)
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you and spend a lot of time with them. It will change your life. – Amy Poehler
Positivity
· “An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put us down unless we allow it to get inside of us.” – Goi Nasu
· “ We can complain because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln
· “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” Proverbs 4:23
Friends
· We’ll be friends till we’re old and senile. Then we’ll be new friends!
· A best friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.