“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received-only what you have given: a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.” ~St. Francis Assisi How full is your heart? P.EA.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Jeremiah 17:10, “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to…
Character
“Character is doing the right thing for the right reason regardless of what the world and others may think about you.” ~JJM Yesterday, for some reason, I thought it would be good to go back to a blog about character that I created a few years ago and read it and see how I was…
Folly and Straight Course
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ~Mark Twain Through my consulting practice I am blessed to spend a significant amount of time with dreamers. Most entrepreneurs are dreamers. They have the ability to picture something that not everyone is able to see. The difficult part of being a dreamer is…
The Faith Advantage
Being takes Doing
It’s an Illness
“Mental illness is an equal-opportunity illness. Every one of us is impacted by mental illness. One in five adults are dealing with this illness, and many are not seeking help because the stigma prevents that.” ~Margaret Larson Robin Williams’ suicide has brought more attention to mental illness in the last couple of days than any…
People
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~Mark Twain Do you have ambitions? Are you hanging around others with similar ambitions? If people are belittling your ambitions (as Twain notes above), it’s not their fault,…
Horrible
…was the entry in my journal describing my swim drill a few days ago. But then it dawned on me that I had not been in the pool for a couple of weeks and if there is one leg in my triathlon training that suffers the most from not practicing, it is the swim portion. Then…
Anger
“Having anger is not a sin, what we do with our anger determines whether or not it becomes a sin.” ~JJM “Let go and let God” is one of the most powerful phrases I try to live my life by these days and I learned that phrase 27 years ago in an AA meeting when I…
“Supposed to Be” ain’t all what it’s made up to be…
“What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.” ~Unknown I used to struggle with “how it’s supposed to be,” but today I’ve chosen a simple picture in my head that I try to continuously strive for and the picture is created from the teachings of the…
Jay Meyer
I started this blog in 2008 because of my passion for helping others take their lives to the next level. My hope is that, through sharing my life experiences as a business leader, husband, father, and recovering drug addict, I will positively impact your life.