| My favorite day of the week is Monday. It often | | | | along different lines in that we accomplish what |
| comes as a shock to people to hear me say | | | | we set out to do. Not only that, but we leave our |
| those words but it is true. We have been trained | | | | home with a visual of organization and cleanliness |
| to hate Monday and love Friday because Friday | | | | and it affects our attitude in a positive way. |
| represent party time and the weekend and | | | | 3. Eat breakfast. Do you know why it is called |
| Monday represent work. I look forward to | | | | "breakfast"? When we eat breakfast we are |
| Monday because of my work. I love what I do | | | | literally "breaking a fast". The longest time |
| and my career, and I the work I do throughout | | | | between meals is between dinner and breakfast. |
| the week empowers me to help others. Certainly | | | | It could be as much as 12 hours; a half of a day. |
| I enjoy the weekend and the activities it brings, | | | | If we wait until lunch to eat we are not getting |
| but I also enjoy my work week. It gives me the | | | | the nutrition our body needs to get moving and |
| opportunity to help others succeed, reach their | | | | motivated. Breakfast food is designed with that in |
| goals, experience new aspects to life and provide | | | | mind. Think about the types of foods we eat for |
| for my family. Each Monday allows me a new | | | | breakfast. Isn't most breakfast food protein, |
| week to create my own destiny. To have this | | | | starch and sugar and no vegetables? Why? |
| type of attitude, however, means changing the | | | | Because our minds and bodies need those types |
| way we think and feel, and it can easily can be | | | | of things to get our day started. We need protein |
| done. Therefore, I want to list 3 SIMPLE things | | | | to build our muscles and provide long term |
| you can do to start each and every day off to a | | | | energy, and we need starches and carbohydrates |
| great start. | | | | for short term energy boosts. If we wait until |
| | | | lunch to eat, as many people do thinking they are |
| 1. Get enough rest. The great statesman, | | | | losing weight, we simply are doing more damage |
| Benjamin Franklin, wrote, "Early to bed and early | | | | to our body, our brain is not fortified with the |
| to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." | | | | necessary chemicals needed to think and feel |
| What is "early"? going to bed the night before at | | | | good, and we fail to begin our day energized. |
| an hour that is appropriate for you is necessary. | | | | When our mind can think clearly and our body is |
| What hour would that be? That will be different | | | | fueled, we can face any challenge we meet |
| for each individual. Some need 8 hours of sleep, | | | | successfully and a good breakfast can help us do |
| whereas, others need only 6. It is also relative | | | | that. |
| depending on the time we need to get up each | | | | Success and successful thinking begins with just a |
| morning. If we awake earlier than most than we | | | | few SIMPLE tasks that we can easily accomplish. |
| should go to bed earlier than most. Regardless of | | | | Rather than dread each morning of our life, we |
| the time, when we get sufficient rest we wake | | | | should wake up refreshed and ready to go meet |
| refreshed and clear headed. Sufficient rest is | | | | new challenges and accomplish greater things. |
| conducive to a positive attitude which, in turn, | | | | Success is simple when we take the time to take |
| helps start our day off great. | | | | care of ourselves. If you want to get your days |
| 2. Make up the bed. It may seem like a little thing, | | | | off to a better start then try these 3 SIMPLE |
| but a made up bed is refreshing and promotes | | | | steps for a week and see how you feel. I |
| successful thinking and self-confidence. How so? | | | | guarantee it will work because I do it every |
| When we set a SIMPLE goal and accomplish that | | | | morning. Have a great day, a great week, a great |
| goal it creates within us a pattern of thinking that | | | | month, a great year and a great life. |
| leads to success in other areas. It may not seem | | | | (c) Copyrighted 2009. All rights reserved. |
| important but we are training our mind to think | | | | |