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Monday Morning Motivation – Become

Curt Stowers
June 5, 2023
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Sharing Resources to Help You Grow Personally, Professionally & Financially

Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement—along with a good cup of coffee!—to start the day. Today we discuss "becoming".

Hopefully, the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter along to others who you think would benefit from the content.

Become

Those of you who know me well, know that I would never be confused as a student of literature. Non-fiction related to personal development and leadership maybe, but the classics, not on your life.

 

And yet today I have to quote Henry David Thoreau:

 

  • What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

 

When I first heard this quote, it stopped me cold. For me, I had always thought goals were about goals. However, I had never even considered the impact that PURSUING the goals was having on me as an individual.

As soon as I looked at things through this lens, I quickly realized that it was not the goals that really mattered. In fact, I cannot even tell you what my goals were from two years ago, much less 5, 10, 15 or 20 years ago.

But I can tell you about the various experiences that have changed me as a person. And as I think back, associated with many of those experiences were some sort of goals. The goals are all gone, but the experiences remain. And so do the changes that those experiences made on me.

 

My challenge for you today is:

 

  • Are you thinking about who you are becoming as you go through the daily routine of pursuing your goals?

 

Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me and have a great week!

Curt

 

About MMM: Each week I publish “Monday Morning Motivation” in the hopes that one person will find a bit of inspiration and that inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions.

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