Momentous Mondays

Food for Thought………

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Welcome Sunday night once again!  Yes, Monday is right around the corner and to be honest, I myself had to hold on real tight to my Momentous Monday thoughts!  So much to say and so much to whine about but you don’t want to hear my little issues I am sure 🙂

Sooooooo, I said to myself…”knock it off” and practice the very things I am saying for all of us to do together.

So here we are and what can be our thought of today and I came across one that is a pretty popular saying.  If this is the first time you are hearing it then let it be life changing.  If this is the 50th time you are hearing it, then I invite you to be with me and let’s look at our reactions to the things around us and what is happening in our life right now.

The phrase? …….drum roll please…..

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it”

hmmmmmmm, food for thought huh?

Let it soak in today as I will and see what it means to us and in our life.  It really can be life changing if we start reacting and responding differently to our situations and life around us.

In fact, let’s just go one step further.  Responding is even different than reacting……

Ok, now that I wowed you and gave you this deep information to ponder 🙂 – when the situations arise on our Monday, let’s dive deep and see how we have the power to turn in around…… kind of like that turn the frown upside down 😦 🙂

Happy Sunday night into our Momentous Monday!

Kelly Savage

 

 

 

 

What’s Different?

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Hello!

So, I am on the hunt to making Mondays momentous!  Who is with me?  Who wants to not feel the Monday blues anymore and have a different view when Sunday night rolls around and, of course, that Monday morning alarm?  Hence, why I am posting this today so we all can read it, soak it in and already have a different perspective for Monday.

I want it…… 🙂  ……..well, actually, now that we are talking about it, I want to do my best to feel that everyday and making the best out of the small moments.  Does that REALLY mean I will have a great day everyday!?  NO!!!  Imagine me saying that with a very exaggerated, slightly sarcastic tone because that is the tone I am saying it in. 🙂 🙂

What i am trying to convey is that I do believe, in our worst of days or just a bad day in general, might not be able to hit us the way some of them have in the past if we “take on” a different attitude or tweak some things in our mind.  Is that possible?!  YES!!!  I said that “YES” with a very excited, determined tone 🙂 – Am I convinced?  100% since I have been there over and over AND OVER again in my life.

We do have the ability to view things differently, give present issues a tweaked perspective and to find good over bad.  That is in our control and if you can see it…..that actually becomes exciting.

Let’s do it together.  Each Monday, (or Sunday to prepare us:)  we will explore what we can do practically to help ourselves not dread our days.

So……..what are we going to do today?  Let’s start small – simply do something different today!  Simple? Yes…..but will you do it?  That’s right, it REALLY is up to us.  Will our day, tasks, issues….stop us?  Hmmmmmmm, this is up to us………but let’s start.

Take a different road to work and see different things.  Take a picture of what speaks to you and you can remember it for your first Momentous Monday.  Look at your pictures on your phone to recall old time memories.  Call someone that you haven’t seen for a while but they have been on your mind.  Listen to a different song or play your favorite song and dance while no one is watching.  Write down a goal and re-visit it often. Try a different food and explore.

Here’s something different – let’s all put our phones down in this day and age and have a real time conversation and re-connect 🙂 –

Last but not least, if you really are having a bad day, and I have had them a plenty, yet you still want to press through in faith and hope, you could write some things down that you are thankful for, proud of or things that make YOU smile and say a small prayer.  Perhaps, reflecting on them will help you throughout your day.

Let me know what kinds of different things you did to make your Monday momentous!

Happy Monday-ing !  🙂

Kelly Savage

 

MOMENTOUS MONDAYS!

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Making it a Momentous Monday!!!

Ok my friends……. we are embarking on making Monday’s Momentous.

First, the definition of momentous – 1) sufficiently great    2) important to be worthy of attention  3) noteworthy.

Second, the synonyms of momentous – notable, worth of attention, remarkable, important, of importance

Are they NOT powerful words and meanings?!  What did that do to you just reading those definitions?  A little different than what we are used to when we are thinking about Mondays, right?

But what if?

What if we started thinking about Monday’s in a different way? What if we didn’t have such a negative perception of Mondays? Where did that even come from anyway?

Why not make Mondays something different?

I can’t wrap my head around why we don’t embrace it at times as a beautiful day just because we are getting up!

Hold on please……. am I saying that I wake up every Monday so hoping to run into work and get my work on?   No! Not every Monday!    🙂 HOWEVER, sometimes I feel like that on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday!  So, what’s the difference of waking up and charging the day or waking up and already can’t wait until nighttime?

Gratefulness………. gratefulness from our heart………. deep within our hearts….. that’s where its at my friends.  Gratefulness and thankfulness.

Ahhhhhhh, when we have that, it so changes our perception on just about everything we have, we are and what situation is going on in our life.  Yes, even the most challenging seasons in our life make us who we are and stronger.

What I do think we need to be reminded of are the great things we do have…………family, friends, loved ones, a job, the ability to work, think, grow, make money and so much more!

So, how can we make this a Momentous Monday?

Take time, sit and just think for a moment of the things you do have, the things you are thankful for, the things you couldn’t imagine your life without and some things we possibly take for granted.

If we learn to be thankful in the smallest of things, our attitudes will change to be thankful in the bigger things and possibly even the most challenging of times.

Food for thought!  Go ahead….. make today a Momentous Monday!  Hope your day is great!

Kelly Savage

 

Time for a laugh!

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YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS!

Just click on the link above!  First – I do NOT own the rights to this video.  It has been all over Facebook, however, I will say that this video is hilarious!  If anyone knows me, I love to laugh and find humor in all that I can and this video certainly brought laughter!

I had to share it with all of you as well – not only because it’s hilarious – but also because it parallels so much of the human nature in all of us!

I will make this blog short and sweet – we all have a human nature side that when we get caught in doing something we shouldn’t, we want to “slide” as smoothly as we can out of the pool AND try not to be noticed. (figuratively speaking of course!) .

Before he got caught, he was about as happy as a lark -lol- doing his own thing but ALSO knew he should not be where he was when his owner saw him!

Doesn’t that parallel our human nature?

Going one step further, don’t we have the tendency to “bark” back when we have done something wrong or have missed the mark?

I don’t know about you, but I think that this video says so much and is elegantly or hilariously portrayed by man’s very own best friend – a dog 🙂

I hope you all have a laugh and a smile that stays with you! 🙂

Kelly Savage