Category: Monday Motivations

Monday Motivation….. January 15, 2024 (677) Lions love to eat gazelle meat. But it’s very difficult for lions to catch gazelles because the latter run so fast. So instead of trying to catch their quarry, a group of young lions will form a line and try to herd them in a particular direction. The gazelles…

Monday Motivation….. January 08, 2024 (676) Gillian is a seven-year-old girl who cannot sit in school. She continually gets up, gets distracted, flies with thoughts, and doesn’t follow lessons. Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing. Gillian does not know how to sit…

Monday Motivation….. January 01, 2024 (675)Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture…

Monday Motivation….. December 25, 2023 (674) My parents, at the height of the Depression, were forced to go on home relief, which is known as welfare today. It was 1935, when I was 10 years old, and we lived on the first floor of a walk-up apartment on 43rd Street, in Brooklyn, New York. A…

Monday Motivation….. December 18, 2023 (673) A blonde was driving when she got lost in a snow storm December evening. She remembered that her dad had once told her. “If you ever get stuck in a snow storm, wait for a snow plow and follow it.” Pretty soon a snow plow came by, and she…

Monday Motivation….. December 11, 2023 (672) I was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up, the first thing I noticed was that the taxi was polished to a bright shine. Smartly dressed in a white shirt, black tie, and freshly pressed black slacks, the cab driver jumped out…

Monday Motivation….. December 04, 2023 (671) A beggar came into the cafe one day asking store owner for some $$. Store owner looked at him and asked him “Why don’t you have a job, you know nothing is given to me for free right? He said “Well, I have a lot of felonies and no…

Monday Motivation….. November 27, 2023 (670) An old man was eating at a truck stop when three rough-looking bikers walked in. As they passed the old man, the first biker pushed his cigarette into the old man’s pie, then laughed and took a seat at the counter. The second biker picked up the old man’s…

Monday Motivation….. November 20, 2023 (669) Barely the day started and… it’s already six in the evening. Barely arrived on Monday and it’s already Friday. … and the month is already over. … and the year is almost over. … and already 40, 50 or 60 years of our lives have passed. … and we…

Monday Motivation….. November 13, 2023 (668) Many years ago, four close friends studied together to board in the same school.. There was only one nice hotel in the city where they lived.. After the board exams are over, those four friends decided that we should make it memorable by having tea-breakfast together at that hotel..…