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The Mills of Your Life Grind—What?

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This week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina:
What is the Monday Morning Message?

Our mill grinds only what is put into it. Put in good grain and good products come out. Put in rotten grain and you get rotten products.

Put in nothing and you grind air—and rattle. Imagine yourself a mill for a week. What are you going to grind?

Good or Bad Thoughts? Good or Bad Words? Good or Bad Deeds? Or nothing—and rattle?

In computer programmer lingo, this is known as “garbage in, garbage out.”

What raw materials do you put into your brain?
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The Best That Is in You

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Monday Morning Messages

Every Monday, Wm. H. Danforth, founder of the Ralston Purina Company, would place a Monday Morning Message on the desks of some of his top employees. These messages were intended to inspire and motivate the employees to be their best, for themselves and for the company.

Many of Mr. Danforth’s messages were compiled in a series of books, now in the public domain. Although these messages were originally written in the 1920s and 1930s, many are still relevant today. I enjoyed reading them, and thought you might, too.

Each Monday morning, I will publish one of Mr. Danforth’s Monday Morning Messages along with my commentary about the message and how you might apply it in your own life.

Here is our first Monday Morning Message.
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