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Lift Yourself to a New Horizon

April 4, 2011 by Cathy Stucker

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

Are you stuck in the same old rut? Expand your horizon and break free of the routine that holds you back.

You can go dead on any level.

You can be satisfied with your horizon. Same people. Same scenes. Same old daily grind. Wake up, shave, eat, routine work, eat, more work, eat again, then to bed. Next day ditto. No vision.

Before Columbus discovered America Europe thought the horizon was the edge of a flat earth. Columbus saw beyond to a new horizon and a new world.

Bell with his telephone, Marconi with his wireless, the Wright brothers with their airplane, Pasteur with his anesthetic—all pushed back their horizons and discovered new worlds.

There are Horizon Lifters all around us. I wish you knew the story of Crystal Maret and Sarah Leezy, who have pushed back their horizons; of the Eagle Division which produced Ward Kilgore, Supreme Exalted Chow Potentate of the P. T. C., and Jimmy Albright, a former Demon who now is a District Salesman; of adventurers in our homes, schools and churches who just won’t be held down.

How high is your horizon? Try for one week to see – Something Beyond. – Lift your Horizon.

What is your vision? What would you do if failure was not an option?

This week, take a bold leap into a new world. Do what you say you would do if you “had the time.” Make the time, take the chance, and make your vision a reality.

Filed Under: Monday Morning Messages Tagged With: routine, vision

Living on Turnips

February 7, 2011 by Cathy Stucker

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

During the war, a little community in Germany exhausted its food supply, and was forced to live on turnips. Turnips raw, turnips cooked, turnip soup, turnips disguised in every conceivable way, but only turnips to eat. On an unbalanced, turnip diet, the power of resistance was reduced to a minimum. Statistics from that community showed from four to five times more tuberculosis in the lives of the children who lived on turnips then than there was in a group of children of the same age before the war.

Are you living on turnips—movies, pleasure, loss of sleep, lack of study, no power to concentrate? Life’s program must build up a surplus against a day of need. If you are eating too many turnips, better look out. Why not lay off and take a little more Ralston, Milk, Butter and SPINACH!

Are you locked in to the familiar? Familiar experiences, familiar people, familiar days? When you limit yourself to doing, thinking and believing the same things you hold yourself back.

Open yourself up to the new. Talk to new people and get new points of view. Break out of your routine and do things in a new way. Work in a new place, with new stimuli.

Just as you wouldn’t eat only one food, do not get stuck in ruts in your work and other areas of life.

Filed Under: Monday Morning Messages Tagged With: change, routine

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