This is a very special day. It’s the last Monday of not just the year, but also the decade. It is also the final week of what has been a very hope-filled month. So as much as we want to look back and celebrate the...
There is a fine line between hope and belief. It’s almost as if they require a little bit of a reality check… but not too much of one. For example, hoping that millions of dollars will fall from the sky might not be so realistic....
The idea of leaving a legacy has an interesting way of placing it, almost as if an event, as something that happens sometime in the far distant future. In other words, we don’t need to worry about our legacy today. But this couldn’t be further...
As much as we like to pride ourselves on being upbeat, positive, and optimistic people, it is a strange truth that bad news seems to spread quicker than good news. There is also a reason why the evening news rarely allocates time for uplifting and...
It’s often said that when all else fails, we always have hope. But is that how we really want to accept the idea of hope? That it’s the last thing remaining after every other option has failed? In some sense that might be true, but...
We have our good friend Socrates to share for something. It’s the question, “Why?” We call it the “Socratic Method,” which has been the foundation for all logic and philosophy in the western world for the last 2,500 years. Well, we thought it’s time to...
We are powerful beings in many ways. Our words, our actions, our thoughts affect not only our own lives, but also the lives of those around us. Sure, we believe this at Every Monday Matters, but we are not so convinced that everyone embraces just...
We all have “that” person in our life. You know the one whose glass is always half empty. They can’t help but see the outcome as always being a bad one and there is rarely any hope for anything exciting or good. Not even miracles...
We do it with friends, significant others, colleagues, other drivers on the road, pilots, the chef at the restaurant, and the waiter who takes our credit cards. It’s called, “Trust.” It’s something we actually do freely when we are younger. We trust everything until we...
We have all heard the saying, “When all else fails, there is still hope.” In this sense, hope is that final something to hold on to. This might be true; but we tend to see things a bit differently. We see hope as the first...
