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Let’s talk about roots.

Let’s talk about weeds.

Let’s talk about you being the designer and God being the master in your Garden of Life.

What are your roots?

What kind of plants and flowers do you want to grow?

We are diving in, getting deep, getting our hands dirty, pulling roots and doing it together to create your personalized Garden of Life and on your way to live your best life yet!

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Lights Out!  

You must have experienced a time when you were working, visiting, or doing something and all the lights went out.  

You look around, everyone gathers in questions and confusion and it sparks conversations of what to do, how it is affecting us and just how much electric is counted on in our lives.

When I went into the bathroom and found myself in a pitch black room, my eyes focused on the only beam of light that was coming from the bottom of the door from the daylight on the other side.

That light was helpful in navigating.  I focused on that light to help me not to stumble and navigate towards since I knew it was the way out. 🙂  

In dark times in our lives, let’s be the light for those who are in darkness and always be reminded that God’s word in a light for every one of us in dark times.  

He is there in prayer when we reach out.

His Word is there to guide us as the helpful light.

And as we our allowing His word to be our light, we can be a light for others by reminding them that there is always a helpful light available.

Kelly Savage

Life Coach

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Listen to an audio clip of Chapter 1 of “Always Ask..What If?” book by Kelly Savage and become the captain of your own team with some though provoking thoughts on the power of choice.

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Hi It’s Kelly Savage with The Butterfly Thoughts Podcast.

Welcome and thank you for joining me where we take our transformation journey, day by day, thought by thought and we do it together.

Today’s episode – “Be The Captain Of Your Own Team”

If you want to confuse yourself quickly, get into a deep discussion with yourself, or learn a fact or 10 of them……read on.

Go ahead and google brains, facts about brains, the mind and all kinds of things will start popping up. You will probably encounter more than you ever wanted to know about these subjects.  That is what google can do, right?

You will see articles how the mind and brain are intertwined in definition yet differences of explanations of how they act separately and how they are alike and so forth. You must really weed through the information and take the chicken off the bone and throw away the bones.

You will see articles about the power of the mind, power of the subconsciousness, how feeding your mind can be good or bad depending on thoughts and how you control them, think on them, act on them all the way down to affecting your mind by what you listen to, what you read and on and on.

Wow!

I did just that and although I love to learn and love to hear interesting facts, it can also be overwhelming, perhaps because my brain doesn’t pick it all up and explain it to me in plain English.

Why do I say all of this or bring this up?  That is probably one of your questions right now.

I was thinking about how powerful and amazing the brain is. Approximately 3 lbs. of the most complex organ in the human body, flexible, ever evolving set of neurons, approximately 90 billion plus (Yes, I just learned that fact).  It isn’t a muscle, but they liken the brain to a muscle as you can exercise, learn, grow, evolve, and scientists how proven that it changes and gets stronger when we use it.

That’s where it got me thinking.  What does that mean about our brain? What does this mean for our mind? Can we exercise these important pieces of our very complex beings? Certainly! Games, puzzle, apps, and more for the brain, mindsets and memories.

Do YOU think of your brain as a muscle? Do you separate mind and the brain? Does that even really matter?

Going one step further, and yes, we are stretching our brains and challenging our minds. How does our mind affect our life and our brain? Do you see them interchangeably?

The brain is the physical matter inside our body, very complex but vital. Our mind is the most puzzling and intangible thing related to the brain.  Mind is about thoughts, feelings, emotions, spirit, will, imagination, memory, perception, and more.

So how can we exercise them.  How important is this information in our life?

Our gym goers, fitness gurus or just those that like to stay fit and work their bodies focus on certain muscles to tone, and know that if they want to get strong, stay strong, grow larger in muscle mass or just stay fit, the body does need to exercise.

Ok. So that has been proven by research. 

Oh yes, research, all the research experiments I found.  My mind goes to “how do they get people to do this, how do they measure the results, determine the end results and so on”.

I digress. I am not willing to spend too much time on that, the science of, or debating the differences and commonalities.

Let’s concentrate on our POWER OF CHOICE. BOOM!  You know I love those 3 little words. 

POWER. OF. CHOICE.

Where does that leave us? Let’s summarize some facts.

The Brain is a physical organ inside our body.  It is vital, important, can be exercised and has been proven to grow and get stronger as it is used.

The mind is powerful.  Thoughts are powerful.  That can go for good or bad thoughts and how much we concentrate on them, repeat them, the mind can be exercised, and the mind affects your body, and your body affects the mind. That last sentence is a doozy and yes, we can pick that apart too.

These facts just scratch the surface for both mind and the brain.

Here’s the exciting part; although I hope you learned a fact or two, here’s is where you get to be a player in your own life, with your own brain, your own mind and affecting your own growth and ultimately affecting your path in life.

Mind. Body. Spirit.  All these together and separate are important in your life. For your whole health.

We do know how we feel if we really think on certain thoughts. If somebody is bullying us, downplaying us, shutting us down or demeaning us, we realize what a damaging affect it can have on a person.  No one can argue that.  Especially if we continue to think on those thoughts.

What if you are demeaning yourself? Putting yourself down? Repeating things in your mind that you know may be false, but you have picked up the tendency to do so. Perhaps has now become a habit in your life.

What are you thinking?  What thoughts are you thinking on? How are you feeding your spirit?

Becoming a player on your own team, for your own life, takes a committed decision.  It takes the power of choice phrase and requires it to become action for you to take in your life.

Is it easy?  Most will say no. Because it isn’t. 

Perhaps you have been demeaning yourself and struggling with seeing the best of you for a long time.  Maybe you have had history of others saying things to you and you have believed those things and you can’t see anything differently.  Maybe it is what you heard from childhood, and you revisit the thoughts just because it feels familiar or all you know.  Perhaps you don’t know where to start.

Hence this podcast.  I see this all the time.  It breaks my heart.  I have been there and conquered a lot of the same of what I am speaking of right now.  I see people suffering, I see depression, I see hopelessness and I see people not fully grasping their power of choice for their own life. 

My prayer is that this very podcast helps many. What’s the Butterfly Thought that flew in? This time it was a reminder of what I am passionate about.  Helping people.  Helping people starts with me putting my own fears down, my own struggles, my own self-consciousness in what others could think, will think, and my own self-doubt in order to share some of my life to help others in their journey.

Here is what I want you to hear. If this is you; If you are struggling with thoughts, feelings, emotions, and you want to become a player on your own team, better yet, captain of your own team…..first, know that it is possible.

If you are ready for change, if you are standing up in your spirit right now, just KNOW….. it can be different. The deep part of you that shines through occasionally, saying you know it can be different pops up in you to remind you of that fact.

Here is another fact.  It starts with you.  No one is going to change you, make you start in a different direction, carry your weight in the action needed, no one.  You can have support, you can have encouragement from others, and that can be very helpful, but they cannot do it for you.

After you choose to start, it only continues with your actions and it takes time and commitment. It is a journey and not a sprint. The acceptance of that fact right from the beginning is vital.

I have been there.  I still get there at times.  I mix my own power of choice breakthroughs with my knowing I am the key player, the one that it starts with and the one that continues to take action…..and mixing it with prayer , love for myself, hope that it can be different and faith that it can be done. 

And let me assure you, that is a powerful mix!

Head on over to my chapter in my book “Always Ask What If”, Chapter 1 entitled “What If..one minute could change an entire course?” as an audio clip for more on this subject.

Thanks for joining!

With Love,

Kelly Savage

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Hi It’s Kelly Savage with Butterfly Thoughts Podcast!

Thoughts that sneak up, fly in, and hold transformational power, just like a butterfly.

Changing our lives…..one thought at a time. Thank you joining me.

Today’s episode………

A Whole New World

I don’t know about you but even that title, “A Whole New World” opens so many different possibilities and thoughts in my mind.  How about you?  A Whole NEW World.

I saw a friend today.

One I haven’t seen in probably years.  I can’t remember how long it has been.

But we were able to not only see one another again but we got to talk.

It is one of those friends that you love to talk to.  They get you. 

The energy vibes and it is a good energy.

We were talking about life.  Things we learned in the last several years.

We are growing a bit more mature, you know, the wisdom that only truly comes with age, life experiences, self-reflection and the different perspectives that we get along the way.

We exchanged the fact that we both LOVE to grow.  Let me say that again.  We LOVE to grow.  Not everyone does.  Not everyone likes that challenge, change or breaking down the familiarity and safety of their own thinking.

But we are two people that welcome it.  We look forward to it and have come to realize that we can continuously be opened to change, or we can shut it down in an instant.

Ready. Willing and Allow Those were the words that came to my mind it that instant. Should I say the butterfly thought flew in.

Ready. Willing and Allow –

Ready for the change. Ready for different perspectives. Ready for the challenge. Because there will be challenges.

Willing for the change.

Willing to put down guards. Could be emotional or mental guards.

Willing to put down pride within us. The egos that we fight with at times.

Willing to not just open up our minds and allow transformation in our life but being ready to throw some things away in our life that are not good for us.

Allow. Yes, I said allow.  And I meant it.  We can shut down anything different in our life including the change that should come in our life. The change that is necessary.  Even the change that we want but the guards are too thick, too high, or we aren’t willing to be vulnerable to. We can all shut it down and stay status quo. Stay the same and have nothing change.

Conscious decisions are necessary in growth.  Change is necessary in growth.

Wow.  Are you getting the picture of just how much you hold the key in self-discovery?  Self-reflection?  Or even reflection for your surroundings that can hold great power in change that you desire, change that you know needs to be, or just open some doors that will allow different perspectives in?

Are you denying change?  That different perspective?

Are you delaying it?

Have you felt it and shut it down?

Have you made the statement “ah, this is just who I am!”, “no changing me”, “that’s just how I think. Period.”, “No, that is just the way it is, and it will never change”.

I have at times.  I realized it wasn’t to my benefit if I wanted to grow.

I realized that I was the one to hold the power. There is that power of choice again.  The choice to grow or not grow as we desire and choose.

Things will stay the same.  Life will move on.  And if that is what you want. Ok.  I will not argue the point.  I won’t even try. I will even respect your decision since that truly is only your decision.

I have always had a natural curious mind.  A need to learn per se’.  A desire to see things objectively, fully, and to challenge myself.  That’s me. Being self-aware is not always easy.  Especially when we truly are being self-aware and seeing something inside ourselves that needs to change.  Can I say “OUCH!”.  I had had plenty of ouch moments already in my life. I don’t see that changing either.  That is the ouch of growing, opening up nooks and crannies in your life to heal or change, but also the beauty of growing and I wouldn’t change a thing seeing how far I have come.

I try to use the phrases “Maybe I can learn something”, “Maybe there is a different way“, “I don’t know everything”, I have a lot to learn”, and I can learn it from anyone and in various situations that may even surprise me”

I use those phrases and more. Just in the last few months, I have begun to use the phrase, “the older I get, the more I know how much I don’t know”.  That indeed has opened a whole new world in my mind and continues to. I feel that opportunities pop up everywhere now and I am learning exciting new perspectives once again.

The fact is there is always so much more to learn.

It opens a whole new world and could open all kinds of doors of opportunities. Notice I said “could”. 

The “could” part is if you are ready, willing and allow. It starts in your heart and the awareness of your power of choice and then the conscious decision that is only yours.

A whole new world awaits you.

Thank you for joining me and have a great day! 

Kelly Savage