Monday Morning Motivation – Consequences
(Sharing Resources to Help You Grow Personally, Professionally & Financially)
Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement — along with a good cup of coffee! — to start the day.
Hopefully the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter on to others that you think would benefit from the content.
Consequences
Last month I decided to change things up and move away from Zig Ziglar for inspiration. This month I opened up my list of “Ziglarisms” and the first word on the list was “forgiveness”. This started my mind turning and led me to decide on Mistakes, Self-Forgiveness, Consequences and Reconciliation as my next four topics. To me these all plug into what I’d call the “relationship process”. That process where we relate to our self, our kids, our spouses, our friends, and all of the other people we encounter in our lives. We all go through this cycle repeatedly. We make mistakes, we deal with the issue of self-forgiveness, we face the consequences of the mistake/deal with how to embrace self-forgiveness, and eventually come to a point of reconciliation. For the next four weeks, I’ll be taking on the topics of mistakes, self-forgiveness, consequences, and reconciliation.
The past two weeks we have taken on the topics of mistakes and self-forgiveness. No doubt there is someone out there that has checked the box on these two, but STILL is not in a good place mentally.
Welcome to consequences. When we make mistakes, they are forgivable. However, they almost always come with a price. That price is the consequence.
If we want to get back to a place of health, we need to go through the consequences.
Consequences are difficult for us to endure as they involve things we generally do NOT like:
- Changing how we eat
- Exercising more
- Spending less
- Dealing with isolation
- Etc.
However, if we work through and endure consequences we normally arrive in a better place having grown as individuals. Unfortunately, many of us myself included (at the top of the list!); often fail in our ability to endure consequences. That’s why we don’t have enough savings, or are overweight, and don’t have better and stronger relationships. The irony is that we all know this, but we STILL continue on with our poor choices; which, in turn, lead to even more consequences!
That brings us to this week’s question:
- What consequences are you willing to endure?
Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning and I wish you all the best for the week.
Curt
(Note: Each week I publish “Monday Morning Motivation” in the hopes that one person will find a bit of inspiration and that inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions.)
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