Create Your Ultimate Year

What does loyalty mean to you?

shawnaschuh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:15:44 +0000

This week we focus on loyalty – an interesting word and I find a different meaning to many. There is loyalty to one’s country – that came up several times in the quotes I read and loyalty to each other. My call to you is to think about what loyalty means to you.

Because of all the political upheaval I thought this quote from John A. Hannah was interesting, “No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that gives him more benefits than any other system yet devised by man. Loyalty leaves room to change the system when need be, but only under the ground rules by which we Americans live.”

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Go make it a magnificent day!

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Shawna Schuh, CSP

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Your Mind Matters

shawnaschuh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:15:22 +0000

A.J. Nock said our last quote of the week, “The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much you digest.”

Joke of the week:

A farmer received a visit from a government official over allegations that he was paying his staff less than the minimum wage. The official asked him for a list of his employees and details of their pay.

“All right,” said the farmer. “I have a hired man, been with me for three years. I pay him six hundred a week, plus room and board. There’s a cook – she’s been here six months. She gets five hundred a week, plus room and board.”

“Anybody else?” asked the official as he scribbled on a pad.’

“Yea,” said the farmer. “There’s one guy here is none too bright. He works about eighteen hours a day. I pay him ten dollars a week and a bit of beer money.”

“Aha!” roared the official. “That’s the man I want to talk to!”

“Speaking,” said the farmer.

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044

www.ShawnaSchuh.com | www.CYUY.com

Peace of Mind

shawnaschuh — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:15:32 +0000

Eric B. Gutkind once said, “People are afraid to think, or they don’t know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can’t be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind.”

I loved that – since I seek peace of mind – a peace that passeth all understanding. Well, now I have the call to strengthen my mind and it may be easier to gain that peace.

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen said “The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down and must be wound up daily with good thoughts.”

Think about this old quote. We no longer have clocks that must be wound – all of my clocks are digital. I even have world clocks that pick up the time from wireless and never need to be reset if the power goes out – so it’s now mindless. Is that what can happen to our mind – we have too many things done for us?

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044

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Employ Your Mind

shawnaschuh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:15:18 +0000

Christian Bovee said, “Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.”

What a great reminder to employ your mind! What are you thinking, visualizing? What can you do and be and think today that will employ your mind in a positive and engaging way?

Napoleon Bonaparte said this, “There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.”

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044

www.ShawnaSchuh.com | www.CYUY.com

Change Your Mind

shawnaschuh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:15:12 +0000

Today’s quote comes from James Lane Allen who said this about the mind, “ A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must and will bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seed will fall therein and will continue to produce its kind.”

What I loved about this quote is that we are all cultivating our gardens – we are gaining new thoughts simply by listening and thinking about the great thoughts of others. How great is that?

Lastly a quote not attributed to anyone, however great advice nonetheless: “It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.” Sort of like underwear I figure!

And of course, here is today’s People Skills Video Tip:

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044

www.ShawnaSchuh.com | www.CYUY.com

Expand Your Mind

shawnaschuh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:07:32 +0000

This weeks theme is The Mind, a gift we all have, each person, every one – and the quotes about the mind were mind-boggling! This is a fascinating topic to me since I was not raised to use my mind in the best ways. I only remember my dad saying, “Use your head Shawna!” usually when I had done something stupid, however there was never really a call to think and so I seek it now. I realize that how I use my mind – how I think is everything – so it’s a great focus for a new month.

Today’s quote comes from George Matthew Adams who said, “One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man’s muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.”

So my call to us this week is to use this valuable gift we are all given and to expand our mind!

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044

www.ShawnaSchuh.com | www.CYUY.com

Music to the world…

shawnaschuh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:15:23 +0000

Henry Ward Beecher gave us today’s quote: “Of all earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.”

This touched me – of all earthly music – wow – the sounds of a loving heart – how are they manifested in us – with joyful tones, with laughter or kind words – are we speaking/playing/providing loving music to the world?

Something about children and love for you today – so many lessons come from little ones and this story about Howard Maxwell of Los Angeles is classic – Howard was an innovator – So when his four-year-old daughter Melinda acquired a fixation for “The Three Little Pigs” and demanded that he read it to her night after night, Maxwell, very pleased with himself, tape-recorded the story. When Melinda next asked for it, he simply switched on the recorder. This worked for a couple of nights, but then one evening Melinda pushed the storybook at her father.

“Now, honey,” he said, “you know how to turn on the recorder.”

“Yes,” said Melinda, “but I can’t sit on its lap.”

This is a great lesson for all of us – it’s not about the story – it’s about the touch, the doing, the being together – so today when someone wants something from you – especially a child or a spouse – ask yourself this: “Is it about the story really?” because if you think about it – it’s more likely about the love.

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044

www.ShawnaSchuh.com | www.CYUY.com

Love is unreasonable

shawnaschuh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:15:01 +0000

Samuel Butler gave us today’s quote on love: “To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.”

Loving is somewhat unreasonable – think of how strong an emotion love is – how much is hurts sometimes to see what we love leave or fade away – the bitter sweetness of having experienced the sunset, or symphony or lovemaking – and even though we know we may experience these things again we also know that we can never experience this exact same thing – and it’s freshness to us – lets do it anyway and not hold back a bit of it.

I also really liked this quote from Teilhard de Chardin who said, “Someday after we have mastered the air, the winds, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love. And then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

Here is today’s People Skills Video Tip. Enjoy!

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044

www.ShawnaSchuh.com | www.CYUY.com

Love is in the air!

shawnaschuh — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:15:12 +0000

This weeks theme is a great one – to me and to mankind as well – it’s love. As I eagerly went through the quotes on love it became apparent that people put love into categories – the romantic love, the family love and the love for all others or of mankind – this week it’s the love of mankind I’m focused on – to love one another – to love each other – it’s a gift and a blessing.

Usually I do the end of the week with a series of quotes on love – I’m going to begin that way!

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe once said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” Think about that – music, art, people, pets, – what is it we love and how is it fashioning us?

Then: Simeon Ben Eleazar said this about love: “Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear.”

Lastly:

From Kahil Gibran: “Work is love made visible.”

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044

www.ShawnaSchuh.com | www.CYUY.com

Accept only the best

shawnaschuh — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:15:21 +0000

To end the week on our theme of best I have two quotes – one is the famous one from Somerset Maugham who said, “It is a funny thing about life – if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.”

And then one more from Abraham Lincoln who said, “I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.”

What a great call to live by! – to simply do what seemed best each day as each day came – what more could we ask?

Weekly Joke:

Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. Once a young student nurse found an elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on this bed with a suitcase at his feet – he insisted to her that he didn’t need help to leave the hospital.

After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly got in the wheelchair and into the elevator. On the way down the young nurse asked him if his wife was meeting him.

He replied, “I don’t know, she’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.”

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

Blessings,

& The Schuh Crew

Shawna Schuh, CSP

Helping Sales Professionals, Executives, and Service Teams profit through advanced people skills.

2421 Hwy 47 | Gaston, Oregon 97119 | 503-662-3044