In honor of Monday's everywhere I have decided to boost the self-esteem of a day that goes regularly into peoples vernacular as the most hated day of the week. Monday has no choice on its placement in the week, and I'm sure would choose to be Friday if it could. The top 10 reasons to love Monday:
10) It's the first day of your best week at work.
9) The first day of the school week, allowing your kids or yourself to get educated
8) The first day closer to the next weekend
7) The first day that you evaluate weather or not you want to find a new job
6) The first day to buy fresh flowers for your special someone
5) The first day to see a movie w/o all of the weekend crowds
4) 1/2 price tickets at Sox home games!
3) The first day to make a vow to quit a habit that's holding you back.
2) The first day to start a week out with optimism and hope fueled by the freedom of a weekend.
1) The best day to extend a fantastic weekend by playing hooky!
Now, this assumes that you don't work weekends, which I do (sometimes.) However, the point is, have you ever tried to find the positive in a negative? Have you ever considered the power of perspective. If I think Monday is going to suck, then Monday is probably going to suck. I'll admit, it wasn't easy coming up with a top 10 reasons to love Monday list, but doesn't Monday deserve it? Don't you deserve it? The only way to change our circumstances is to change our attitude and reactions to those circumstances.
Monday will always be Monday. Bosses and Employees will still come to work with attitudes and hangovers, and baggage from their lives. The only recourse you have is to change your reaction, your response, your attitude, and your actions. There is nothing that you do to make others bend to your will.
Be grateful it's Monday, if you have a job, be grateful you have a job to hate Monday's for. If you don't have a job, be grateful that you have the power to get a job - that you woke up with the opportunity to find a job, that you have all the power you need to generate the energy and hope that an employer needs. Or maybe, just maybe, the reason you don't have a job is greater than that - maybe you're supposed to be doing something amazing, maybe you're supposed to be your own boss, maybe you're supposed to be employing others. Maybe that idea that has been swimming in your mind for years is supposed to be taking root in reality.
Whatever you have today, do the best with it! If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got. Maybe that's good enough for some of you, but for most of us it means that we need to look inside and make a call to action. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.
Monday's don't deserve our wrath, they should be greeted with same enthusiasm as Friday or Wednesday, or Sunday or whatever your favorite day happens to be. Remember Monday is an idea, just like your attitude is an idea, and an idea is only as strong as the belief in the idea. Change your belief, change your life!
Be well, and have a wonderful day, unless you have other plans.
Michael
Monday, July 26, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
EXPOSED FEARS
6:59am - Friday, July 23, 2010
What is fear? Why do we have fear? It serves a purpose, but also serves to dominate lives. Recently I ran into a fear. I wasn't aware that this fear was such a controlling feature in my life. One of the reasons that I write a blog is to reveal aspects of my personality to myself, most often if I'm only thinking about something it stays between my ears, and anything that's in my brain isn't real. It's an idea that I can rationalize, misplace, ignore, or generally minimize or maximize and allow to act as a controlling factor in my life.
I'm 37, I am well educated; I feel that I am well spoken, and have great life experience and spiritual experience to share with others - I considered, until recently, myself to be a personally confident person.
However, I have to see that I have a flaw that is limiting my ability to achieve and suceed. Now pay attention, if you can believe this, my defect in character is that I seek the approval of others at cost to my personal growth, success, or feelings. What does this mean? It means that I'm afraid you won't like me, and I would rather be liked, than stand up for what I believe in. Where did I learn this? From life. It wasn't something exposed to me by a CD or self improvement book.
In my quest to move forward in my life, and begin something new, I have run into one massive road block - me. I am my biggest obstacle. My programming has given me rather low self esteem, the need to please others, and negative self talk that minimizes my personal accomplishments.
Why do I care what others think of me? Why do I want you to like me? Why is the approval of others a controlling factor in my life? These are all questions that I must address and conquer as I push forward in my life.
My first response to this discovery was irritability, however, as I thought about it, I realized that I had a great opportunity on my hands. Discovering faults, becoming aware of personal deficits is the key to overcoming them and turning a liability into an asset. All perceived deficits are assets in hiding. They are what makes us stronger as people. It all goes back to the same principle that how would you know happiness if you didn't experience sadness or pain? The same applies to all areas of improvement - those areas which are perceived as negative have an opposition that is positive, and when you've experience both, you can share both, you have a story to tell that others will relate to, and perhaps even see a brighter future for themselves.
Creating a better future is what we all (ought) strive for; complacency and apathy are the disease of the 21st Century. They only way to overcome and treat them is to through self discovery and self improvement, and helping others.
Until I post again, have a great day - unless you have other plans.
- Michael
What is fear? Why do we have fear? It serves a purpose, but also serves to dominate lives. Recently I ran into a fear. I wasn't aware that this fear was such a controlling feature in my life. One of the reasons that I write a blog is to reveal aspects of my personality to myself, most often if I'm only thinking about something it stays between my ears, and anything that's in my brain isn't real. It's an idea that I can rationalize, misplace, ignore, or generally minimize or maximize and allow to act as a controlling factor in my life.
I'm 37, I am well educated; I feel that I am well spoken, and have great life experience and spiritual experience to share with others - I considered, until recently, myself to be a personally confident person.
However, I have to see that I have a flaw that is limiting my ability to achieve and suceed. Now pay attention, if you can believe this, my defect in character is that I seek the approval of others at cost to my personal growth, success, or feelings. What does this mean? It means that I'm afraid you won't like me, and I would rather be liked, than stand up for what I believe in. Where did I learn this? From life. It wasn't something exposed to me by a CD or self improvement book.
In my quest to move forward in my life, and begin something new, I have run into one massive road block - me. I am my biggest obstacle. My programming has given me rather low self esteem, the need to please others, and negative self talk that minimizes my personal accomplishments.
Why do I care what others think of me? Why do I want you to like me? Why is the approval of others a controlling factor in my life? These are all questions that I must address and conquer as I push forward in my life.
My first response to this discovery was irritability, however, as I thought about it, I realized that I had a great opportunity on my hands. Discovering faults, becoming aware of personal deficits is the key to overcoming them and turning a liability into an asset. All perceived deficits are assets in hiding. They are what makes us stronger as people. It all goes back to the same principle that how would you know happiness if you didn't experience sadness or pain? The same applies to all areas of improvement - those areas which are perceived as negative have an opposition that is positive, and when you've experience both, you can share both, you have a story to tell that others will relate to, and perhaps even see a brighter future for themselves.
Creating a better future is what we all (ought) strive for; complacency and apathy are the disease of the 21st Century. They only way to overcome and treat them is to through self discovery and self improvement, and helping others.
Until I post again, have a great day - unless you have other plans.
- Michael
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