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Alan’s Thought for Today — 272 episodes
Thought for today: Be like Nikola Jokić
Thought for today: Be careful where your elephant is going
Thought for today: Break your chains
Thought for today: Be careful who you trust
Thought for today: You have what you need
Thought for today: Take your life seriously
Thought for today: Let it go! Let it go!
Thought for today: We don't HAVE to do it, we GET to do it
Thought for today: Would you pass the test?
The thought for today: Be consistent
Thought for today: Contribute what you can
Thought for today: Decline is a choice
Thought for today: Do you really want it?
Thought for today: What if it's true?
Thought for today: Don't desire power
Thought for today: Let's perfect our love
Thought for today: Slow down
Thought for today: Don't spend all your time cursing the darkness
Thought for today: Just do it
Thought for today: You can
Thought for today: I got to see Eddie!
Thought for today: You are "good enough"
Thought for today: Are you using your right to doubt?
The thought for today: What's your plan?
The thought for today: Are you in control?
The thought for today: What is your vision?
Thought for today: Consider them a friend
Thought for today: Merry Christmas
Thought for today: Take it the way they mean it
Thought for today: What is your plan?
Thought for today: Be nice
Thought for today: It begins with us
Thought for today: Don't have hubris
Thought for today: Proof of life
Thought for today: Don't run away
Thought for today: Do favors for your future self
Thought for today: Be willing to go into the lion's den
Thought for today: Change the road you're on
Thought for today: Diversity is our strength, division is our weakness
Thought for today: Be trustworthy with little
Thought for today: Take care of yourself
Thought for today: You don't have to have an opinion
Thought for today: Find your exclamation point
Thought for today: Are you healthy?
Thought for today: Slay your inner dragons
Thought for today: Be like that mother skunk
Thought for today: Don't give up on them
Thought for today: Lift them up
Thought for today: It is worth it
Thought for today: Megaphone or mirror?
Thought for today: Happiness is infectious
The thought for today: Support your local merchants
Thought for today: Show no fear, move forward bravely
Thought for today: What is your ultimate measure?
Thought for today: You have a choice
Thought for today: In a healthy organization, accountability rolls uphill
The thought for today: It could be you
Thought for today: Be like Fido
Thought for today: Family is worth it
Thought for today: Imagination is a good servant and a bad master
Thought for today: Apologize, or not, but don't do both
Thought for today: Happy New Year!
Thought for today: How do you want to be remembered?
Thought for today: Have a reason to miss them
Thought for today: Merry Christmas
Thought for today: Do you ever say you're sorry?
Thought for today: Make a new plan
Thought for today: Do you have a library card?
Thought for today: Are you educated?
Thought for today: Act Like Those Days
Thought for today: You have the ingredients you need, don't wait for the recipe
Thought for today: How do your actions interpret your thoughts?
Thought for today: Ask for grace
Thought for today: Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
Thought for today: Systems are better than goals
Thought for today: You are more important than anything in this world
Thought for today: Life is a team sport
Thought for today: Is your success a zero-sum game?
Thought for today: Does your success depend on others' weakness, or on their strength?
Thought for today: It's okay to be ignorant
Thought for today: We don't know how it is for them
Thought for today: Focus on the real issues in you and in others
Thought for today: Think about others
Thought for today: Tell somebody they're number one
Thought for today: Be like an Insta360 X3, have a me mode
Thought for today: We have fewer excuses
Thought for today: Do not voyeuristically do wrong
Thought for today: Maybe being our good self is being different
Thought for today: Don’t try to be different, try to be your good self
Thought for today: Wow. That was brave.
Thought for today: Peace is free
Thought for today: Don’t look down on people
Thought for today: Do you care?
Thought for today: What ambition do you serve? (Shout out to Jordan Peterson)
Thought for today: I was wrong
Thought for today: Wisdom is supreme
Thought for today: Ask what they meant
Thought for today: React as if they are your friend
Thought for today: Search for the knowledge you need
Thought for today: Find your gimmick
Thought for today: Don’t rush to speak
Thought for today: Disagreeing is not hate
Thought for today: Don't live life at half-mast
Thought for today: Be for peace
Thought for today: We are all human
Thought for today: Take it as they mean it
Thought for today: Do not slander your neighbor in private
Thought for today: Go and do likewise
Thought for today: Know your ignorance
Thought for today: Spend time with family
Thought for today: Outcomes are not the most important thing
Thought for today: Don’t believe your own lies (hat tip: Gad Saad)
Thought for today: Thankfulness, itself, is not a gimmick
Thought for today: Keep calm
Thought for today: Rights are most important in the hard times
Thought for today: Boundaries facilitate (hat tip: Jordan Peterson)
Thought for today: Feedback is a gift
Thought for today: Do not enjoy harming the opposing group
Thought for today: Don’t swear
Thought for today: Is the social media you the real you?
Thought for today: Who is the kindest person you know?
Thought for today: Do not sit in the company of mockers
Thought for today: Don’t believe absurdities (hat tip: Gad Saad)
Thought for today: Be like Justin Hawkins
Thought for today: Love humanity so much (hat tip: Elon Musk)
Thought for today: Smile, it’s infectious
Thought for today: Whether the cross falls is our choice
Thought for today: Find value in lifting people up, not tearing them down
Thought for today (Memorial Day): What are you willing to sacrifice?
Thought for today: Constructive criticism does not involve instant gratification
Thought for today: Ideologues don’t get things done
Thought for today: Controlling is not helping
Thought for today: Show kindness
Thought for today: We have a responsibility to tell the truth (Shout Out to Denzel Washington)
Thought for today: Tom Cruise
Thought for today: Hell is locked from inside
Thought for today: Obedience is not enough, but at least it’s a start (h/t: Jordan Peterson)
Thought for today: They don’t know what you know
Thought for today: Do you really want to understand?
Thought for today: Set a high value on liberty
Thought for today: Don’t let fairness run your life
Thought for today: Be like those turtles
Thought for today: Tear down your Asherah pole
Thought for today: Be the guy who gave the ball away
Thought for today: Truth in not curated
Thought for today: Don’t be manipulated
Thought for today: You go to war with the underwear you got on
Thought for today: Your time is your estate
Thought for today: Don’t live life ad interim
Thought for today: We need people
Thought for today: Everybody reaches a point where the burden is too much
Thought for today: Know you are lost
Thought for today: Fame is a four letter word
Thought for today: The tomb is empty
Thought for today: Take a walk
Thought for today: Don't be Spock, and don't be Kirk
Thought for today: There is no such thing as a noble lie
Thought for today: Let go of the coat
Thought for today: Nobody is beyond redemption
Thought for today: Be committed, but don't be an idealogue
Thought for today: What is the cumulative effect?
Thought for today: Use your tongue for good
Thought for today: You can't have now be more important than eternity
Thought for today: This is not heaven
Thought for today: Don't live in a bubble
Thought for today: Pace yourself
Thought for today: Ask yourself, "Does it need to be said?"
Thought for today: Live in the now, don't record it
Thought for today: Which kind of person are you?
Thought for today: Which do you provide more of?
Thought for today: When words are many…
Thought for today: It is your fault, but...
Thought for today: Social media is the worst of two worlds
Thought for today: Spend your time with utopia
Thought for today: Truth about truth
Thought for today: Don't be feral to people who disagree with you
Thought for today: Be a questioner of the commonplace
Thought for today: Share a lot of love
Thought for today: The conscience of the nation is dying off
Thought for today: Don't be evil
Thought for today: People still stop
Thought for today: Why not get rid of it now?
Thought for today: Don't try to fix the world until you fix your world
Thought for today: Don’t be perpetually outraged
Thought for today: Stay ruthlessly consistent
Thought for today: Take time to play with your dog
Thought for today: There is a purpose
Thought for today: Be real
Thought for today: Don't feel better, by putting other people down
Thought for today: Don't fool yourself
Thought for today: Stand up for yourself
Thought for today: Sticks and stones
Thought for today: It takes just one to start
Thought for today: Pretend they are right there
Thought for today: Have a love that seeks no reward
Thought for today: You’re lucky
Thought for today: Is the earth flat?
Thought for today: Don't overanalyze
Thought for today: Let's not have the Rule of Nobody
Thought for today: If you have too many goals, you have no goals
Thought for today: There is more
Thought for today: Your feelings affect others
Thought for today: You are enough
Thought for today: What if you die tomorrow?
Thought for today: Learn what you really need to know
Thought for today: Use words, not spears
Thought for today: Do not be proud of your wealth
Thought for today: Choose sayings that bring people together
Thought for today: Don't listen to people who always blame others
Thought for today: Don't get lost in fundamentalism
Thought for today: You sum successes and failures, you don't count them
Thought for today: Start today
Thought for today: Family is worth it (redux)
Thought for today: We are all the same blood
Thought for today: Don't convince people that they are the victim
Thought for today: It's not good to be alone
Thought for today: "How you handle today is how you'll handle every day"
Thought for today: Is the influencer situation parasitic both ways?
Thought for today: Triumph and disaster are imposters
Thought for today: Maybe it's not a mistake
Thought for today: Truth will win
Thought for today: Three powerful resources
Thought for today: Don't confuse "a" solution with "the" solution
Thought for today: One-upmanship is not good
Thought for today: Fight confirmation bias
Thought for today: Watch what they do, not what they say
Thought for today: Revenge is not justice
Thought for today: Nourish someone
Thought for today: Take a look at yourself
Thought for today: Be Mighty Mouse for someone
Thought for today: Is Jesus a narcissist?
Thought tor today: Try something
Thought for today: Are you cattle to become food?
Thought for today: Don't be overwhelmed
Thought for today: How much arsenic is okay?
Thought for today: Boundaries are good
Thought for today: Don't worry about it
Thought for today: Let's try to lead simple lives
Thought for today: You are likely to be the destroyer if you try to be the savior
Thought for today: Things aren't the way they seem
Thought for today: Question everything
Thought for today: If you don't want me to judge you...
Thought for today: Turn on your creative faucet
Thought for today: Don't live for a lie
Thought for today: Don't be vague and complex
Thought for today: Don't needlessly give others control over your life
Thought for today: It make no sense to be proud of yourself for something you had no control of
Thought for today: Become a forever victor
Thought for today: Don't let somebody else's confidence convince you you are wrong
Thought for today: Maybe those who think others are irrational are the irrational ones
Thought for today: Don't let people make you embarrassed because of your ancestors
Thought for today: Fear the word "consensus"
Thought for today: Don't amplify the bad people
Thought for today: Be like Pluto
Thought for today: We agree on the big things
Thought for today: Don't destroy with good conscience
Thought for today: When you die, what do you want to be remembered for?
Thought for today: Most people are great people
Thought for today: Don't avoid work
Thought for today: Has it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong?
Thought for today: All the things that God does for us are the best things possible
Thought for today: Do you want justice?
Thought for today: Always let facts matter
Thought for today: Love wins in the end
Thought for today: Don't worry about impressing others
Thought for today: Utopia is impossible
Thought for today: #LetsLearnTogether
Thought for today: Don't swear
Thought for today: Life is too short
Thought for today: Almost everybody has something you can like about them
Thought for Today: Love them for them
Thought for today: You don’t know what they’ve gone through