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Monday Morning Boost: Regular Maintenance Required

Monday Morning Boost: Regular Maintenance Required

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I love my Stihl lawn trimmer and edger. I’ve had them for years and they work like a champ. But like every piece of equipment, they require maintenance, and regular maintenance is always better than occasional maintenance. I know that. I bet you know that as well. But sometimes it’s pretty easy to overlook the importance of regular maintenance. Then sometimes the equipment breaks down. That’s what happened with both my Stihl trimmer and edger. They are solid pieces of equipment…

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Monday Morning Boost: Creating Energy in the Darkness

Monday Morning Boost: Creating Energy in the Darkness

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Why is it darkest just before the dawn? Why do we struggle the most just before we triumph? Why do clarity and focus sometimes rise from the billowing dust of confusion? Perhaps, the struggle of darkness is when the greatest energy is being created. English cleric and writer Charles Caleb Colton put it this way… “Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt…

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Monday Morning Boost: Quotable Words, Memorable Stories

Monday Morning Boost: Quotable Words, Memorable Stories

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Are your words quotable??? As leaders, which we each are, we find inspiration from the words of those we respect. We often share that inspiration. Christian author Joyce Meyer understands the power of the words we speak and share. “Words are containers for power,” she teaches. “You choose what kind of power they carry.” I had the honor a few weeks back of my words being quoted by a business leader Melissa Summers. She even created a visual graphic, featuring…

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Monday Morning Boost: When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned

Monday Morning Boost: When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned

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Fixing a dryer wasn’t what I wanted to do on Saturday. My original plans for the day were to finish painting my office. The ceiling and the Caliente Red wall still need to be done. But a dryer squeaking really loud with a drum not turning well took priority. I didn’t know exactly what I was doing. So I hit YouTube where I found help from Richard O’Banion repairing Maytag dryers and from Hill Bros Review who taught me how…

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Monday Morning Boost: To Toil and Labor… And Paint!

Monday Morning Boost: To Toil and Labor… And Paint!

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How are you using your Labor Day weekend??? Playing… Working… Relaxing… Whichever your focus, make sure you focus time on rejuvenation. Each of these activities can provide rejuvenation if you allow it to happen. Rejuvenation will help increase your focus, the first core principle you need to Gain The Red Edge. My weekend? The photos are a dead giveaway. We’re painting my home office. Blue is what it looks like now. Blue walls. Blue doors. Blue ceiling. At one point…

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Monday Morning Boost: Why Are We Still Texting & Driving?

Monday Morning Boost: Why Are We Still Texting & Driving?

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When’s the last time you texted while driving? Or did something else equally as distracting? Not that long ago I’m guessing. Yeah, me too. We should know better, right? Let me share a story, and then some research. JAKE HAWKES Nine years ago texting and driving didn’t have the same awareness level as it does today. But for one family, the night of August 25, 2009, the awareness came crashing home. Jake Hawkes was 19, a recent graduate from Sky View…

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Monday Morning Boost: Embracing Ownership of Our Future

Monday Morning Boost: Embracing Ownership of Our Future

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It’s time to embrace ownership of our future. If we are looking for someone else to do it for us… It won’t happen. Take charge. Be resourceful. Create opportunities. No more expecting someone else to solve our problems. Owning our life starts by consistently telling ourselves a better story. Telling ourselves a better story, every moment, consistently, creates better thoughts, better actions, better insights, and better ideas. We live in a world created by the story we tell ourselves. It…

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Monday Morning Boost: Why A Better Story Works

Monday Morning Boost: Why A Better Story Works

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The storyteller inside our head speaks louder and more fiercely than any other voice will ever speak to us. We sometimes tell ourselves horrible stories of failure. We tell ourselves we can’t do it, we’re not good enough, we won’t succeed. I grew up creating those stories of self-defeat as the narrator inside my head struggled to share uplifting and positive stories. I learned how to better listen to the many positive and encouraging voices surrounding me from family, friends, and…

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Monday Morning Boost: The Rumblin’ Sounds of Freedom

Monday Morning Boost: The Rumblin’ Sounds of Freedom

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There are not many sounds that get my heartbeat racing like the rumblin’ of motorcycles. The deep reverb echoes to my soul akin to the epic roar of a fighter jet and the booms of a field artillery howitzer delivering its explosive ordinance. These are the rumblin’ sounds of freedom. Those rumblin’ sounds of hundreds of motorcycles filled the Saturday morning air in Cache Valley as bikers from around the region gathered at Lance Corporal Michael J. Allred “Ride for the Fallen” to honor those…

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Monday Morning Boost: 3 Steps To Make Every Day Matter

Monday Morning Boost: 3 Steps To Make Every Day Matter

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How has your Monday been??? Perhaps it’s too early to ask this question as Monday is just beginning (assuming you’re actually reading this Monday Morning Boost in the morning). But then maybe it’s not too early. When do we decide how our Monday will be? Or any other day for that matter. When do you decide how your day was? Do we wait till the day is over and then decide, or decide beforehand? German human rights activist Akilnathan Logeswaran had…

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