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Stu-Pendous Blog - Archives for January 2009

These are the thoughts of speaker, author and camp director Stu Saunders.
For Stu’s original blog, you may still access his archives here.

  • There, right there

    Jan 27, 2009

    I love getting up early, very early. Love it. Truly! I was up today at 4:30 and I was reading some great quotes. Check out this one.

    “For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.”
    —Evelyn Underhill

    I am not sure who Evelyn is but she hit the nail on the head. I had three of our summer staff come visit yesterday and they went for a walk around the property. When they came back they commented on how beautiful everything was. True, so true.

    Take a moment to today and look around you and see the loveliness all around. It’s right there, there and there…


    Posted by Stu Saunders in Leadership Learning and Growing Motivation on Jan 27, 2009 at 3:16 am | Permanent Link | Comments (8)

  • Today

    Jan 24, 2009

    Today is an important day, the most important day, in fact thinking about it right now, I believe this is the most important day of my life. Sure, there have been days that stand out as spectacular, even life changing, but today has to be number 1.

    I am sure at this point you are wondering what I an talking about? Stu what’s happened? What is the big news? Did you win a lottery? Did someone donate 1 million dollars to camp? Did Jennifer Aniston ask you out on a date? Were you named Time Magazines Person of the year?

    NOPE!

    Still the most important day though!! Still confused? Ok, I will let you in on why today is SO huge, for all of us! It’s because we are alive. We have a choice to live fully! I know, I know… cheesy! But stop and think about it though. Isn’t it great to have an opportunity to do something with your day? To follow up on an idea! To spread love and kindness, to laugh and play! I am in Kingston this morning and I was enjoying a morning coffee at the hotel looking out over the frozen lake, sun shining, bouncing off the white snow and ice. I was reading the paper and opened it up randomly to the obituaries… I started to read… Died at 91, 87, 93, 78… I started to think wow those are full lives. “Survived by their three children 8 grand children and 2 great grandchildren…”

    Then I came to Mike’s obit, “Lost his battle to bone cancer at 16, mike is survived by his parents, two brothers and his dog Corky. Mike lived each moment to the fullest, making us laugh even on his last day.” Sixteen, wow. I bet you Mike would have liked today, it would have been the best day of his life because he got just one more. So, today is the most important day of my life… thank you for being part of MY journey and thank you for reading the STUpendous BLOG! Now go and have the greatest day of your life!


    Posted by Stu Saunders in Leadership on Jan 24, 2009 at 7:27 am | Permanent Link | Comments (5)

  • Long time

    Jan 15, 2009

    It has been a long time since the last blog… I have been busy. Trying to get my year started and create days full of accomplishment and joy. Life has a way of pushing you, giving you a challenge here and there to see if you’re on the ball or if you are missing the point.

    I have to admit to you that it has been a hard start to my 2009. I started a really big project and I am struggling to get it done. I have set myself a fairly lofty goal that if I complete it for 365 days has the potential to change my life. It’s not a diet or an exercise plan, it’s a way of living. It’s a conscious choice to be a leader in my own life, if you can’t lead you how do you lead others?

    So I apologize for not being here. I am committed to being better at that. It takes a little swallowing of my personal pride to say that I am not doing all that I can each day. It’s also something that you need to recognize before you can change it. So… I am recognizing it.

    What are you NOT doing that you thought you might be doing in 2009. What New Year’s resolution have you had problems sticking to? Here’s the good news, it can be January 1st any day! You can start again tomorrow. It’s your life and there’s no rule saying when you can or can not make a change! So get to it!


    Posted by Stu Saunders in Leadership on Jan 15, 2009 at 6:39 pm | Permanent Link | Comments (5)

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