Attitude and Outlook
Even when the world around you is at its worst, you can choose to be at your best. These Monday Morning Minutes treat attitude as a decision rather than a mood: the lens you pick, where you aim it, and what your first honest thought of the day already decided.
18 articles
2025
A rainy forecast, a song stuck in his head. Bryan Yager on the weather deciding your week only if you let it.
7 min readStress rises precisely when you can least afford to be at your worst. Bryan Yager on choosing the shift deliberately.
7 min read2024
Gratitude and attitude are choices, not challenges. Bryan Yager on picking a lens and deciding where to aim it.
5 min readNo two snowflakes are alike, and enough of them make an avalanche. Bryan Yager on why small individual actions add up.
7 min read2020
You choose the lens, and then where to point it. Bryan Yager on finding beauty in a year full of the opposite.
4 min readEven when the world is at its worst, you can choose to be at your best. Bryan Yager on treating that as a decision, not a mood.
4 min readA parable Bryan Yager has told high schoolers for fifteen years, about the echoes that come back to you.
5 min readDid you wake up in a bad mood, or choose one? Bryan Yager on living deliberately instead of by default.
4 min read2019
What was your first honest thought this morning? Bryan Yager on how "oh no, Monday" decides the day before it starts.
2 min readFour hours of sleep and a 5am flight. Bryan Yager on who the people around him met before the coffee worked.
3 min readThe easy problems were solved long ago. Bryan Yager on why the rest need new thinking, not more effort.
4 min readHabits decide health, money and who gets your time. Bryan Yager on the arithmetic running in both directions.
5 min readLine up everyone you know from most to least successful. Bryan Yager on what actually separates the two ends.
4 min read2018
Late, impatient, trapped in a drive-through line. Bryan Yager on what happened at the window, and the ripples it started.
4 min readBryan Yager was nobody's first pick as a Pinochle partner. On complaining about the hand you were dealt.
3 min readWorry is the misuse of imagination. Bryan Yager on where sensible preparation turns into a story you start living in.
2 min readA photography teacher sent his class out on the ugliest day of the year to find beauty. Bryan Yager on what that taught him.
2 min readBryan has spent more than 45 years developing leaders, in Boise and across the country. If this is the thinking you want in the room, he works with organizations on leadership development, coaching, and team workshops, and the same thinking runs through his book, How to Transition Into Leadership.