Motivational Monday #1

         Maybe as the year goes on I'll actually be good at coming up with blog titles but I figure since this is my first Monday post, this will do.

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          It's one week into 2019 and on one hand I feel like I've had a pretty good first week but on the other I can think of so many things that I should've been doing already to reach my goals. I've had seven whole days after all, and what have I done with them? I was going to get up early... this morning I slept through my alarm and didn't wake up till thirty minutes before I was supposed to be at work! I didn't exercise until today when I went on a walk/hike with some of my friends... And there I go again: finding everything wrong with myself and my life.

        Why do we do that to ourselves? I can find good in every one, no matter what: it's something I've tried to practice since I was a kid. But when it comes to me I expect myself to be perfect at everything right off the bat, even if it's something I'd never even heard of before that day. I'm still trying to decide what I think about all of the "self-love" and "self-care" ideas that are so popular right now but I will say this: there is most definitely a need for self-forgiveness. If Jesus is willing to forgive me for a thing then why on earth do I hold on to that thing and hold it up as a sign of my own failures? Wouldn't that be considered lack of faith in the truth of God's promises? So, yes, this week I forgot to do a number of things on my list (forgot or just chose not to do them) but it's only seven days out of three hundred and sixty-five. Life and success takes time: all I have to do is pick up where I am and take the next step.

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