✨💯WHY OUR BEST YEAR EVER
The Windshield of Abundance
Dear Why Team member,
Here we are again, at the beginning of a New Year. It’s a wonderful time to get excited, reinvigorated, and go deeper with our gratitude.
Why Gratitude?
Adding daily to a gratitude list is paramount to fueling an abundant life. A daily discipline of gratitude has been proven to literally rewire our brains more to the positive. Adding to my gratitude list is one of my favorite activities; a true get rich quick scheme.
It is also a tradition to set new goals, set new resolutions at the beginning of a New Year, but as you may know, by the end of the first quarter, many have broken their resolutions. Could it be the why; doing more vs becoming more?
This year let’s consider resolving more to improve our thinking, our being.
“Nurture the Root and the Tree takes care of itself” - Old Chinese Proverb
Thinking drives feelings, feelings drive actions, actions drive results.
Consider 2025 as the year to Revive and Thrive - beginning each day with an enhanced attitude of gratitude.
To be a source of abundance, we must first recognize our own abundance.
We cannot serve from an empty cup.
In this New Year, let’s also consider the power that resides within us to make a new path. By definition, leaders go first. Awake each morning with a creative mindset, not a mindset of being lost and overwhelmed in a big world, but rather a mindset of knowing we have gifts beyond comprehension to create from the inside out. Choosing one's own attitude, alone, can lift our spirits and the spirits of others; through collaboration let’s create new ways of thinking.
Revive every morning with a daily goal aligned with your longer-term goals.
It is very powerful to attend more to the daily steps we take on our year long journey.
Great days add up to great weeks, great months, and our Best Year Ever.
Consider your outlook on life; the windshield is so much larger than the rear-view mirror, why do so many choose the smaller view?
Invest less time fearfully analyzing the past in an effort to predict and protect yourself from the unknown future. Get excited about life and all that it has in store for you! Live, have fun, and learn!
Count it all as Joy - for within the coal is found the diamond. Wake up each new day and see it as a rebirth, because that is what it is, a reawakening of our consciousness. Each new day has endless possibilities often best progressed with a spirit of love and a creative mindset.
Live your BEST DAY EVER to achieve your BEST YEAR EVER!
When we Why Team members say, "Make it a great day!", rather than "Have a great day", we are reminding ourselves and others that we can create what we want, that life does not happen to us, we happen to life.
Thomas Edison said, "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves".
So, the question for us is simply,
“Are we going to make it a great day?". If not, why not? Has any self-pity ever been truly helpful to us in the long run?
No matter how difficult our circumstance, we have the power to choose how we think about it. Choose to revive each morning in a feeling of abundance. We either create our limits or we create our limitless possibilities. Consider no longer using the word failure, but rather see it all as gifts of insight, feedback, to expand the window through which we view the world.
In this New Year, consider embracing more fully each New Day, creating, experimenting, trying new approaches, knowing that we can shift and change as circumstances necessitate.
Keep your Why before you, it will guide you and more effectively answer your "what's" and "how's."
Don't choose a Why to prove that you're enough, choose a Why from the knowing that you are enough, more than enough, for a time such as this - to serve and be served as you become all-the-more through concerted effort.
Let’s be on purpose to make a difference in the lives of others. Gifts received are enlarged when given to others. And know that our gifts flower best when we put yourself to the test. When your alarm awakes, embrace your revival and when you lay your head on the pillow at night, be grateful that you had that day to develop and grow, to be a blessing to the ones around you.
Make each day in 2025 count and no doubt those days will add up to our BEST YEAR EVER!!
Make it great!
Steve Luckenbach