Breakfast: 4 piece chicken minis
Lunch: cold cut on honey oat
Dinner: salad, chicken and rice
I Love Mondays
By this point, you probably have given up on your New Year's resolution. America loves New Year's resolutions. Memorial Days, Holidays, Vacation Days, Sick Days, Weekends, and celebrations are what keeps our nation going. Five days of work, you say? Too much! My two day weekend is hardly enough time!
We are also a generation (18-35 year olds) that are especially lazy. St Patricks Day is a celebration for non-Irish for reasons we don't know. Valentine's Day was created by Hallmark. We rest on Labor Day, of all ironies.
We deserve vacations, road trips, and escapes, more so than the one day Sabbath.
Don't get me wrong; I am guilty of this as well. I strive very hard to be a hard worker but still fall short of the ideal of what "hard worker" really means. All this ties in to a notion of being unable to keep a resolution. It's only February, and many feel shackled with 364 dates that are NOT January 1st.
I'm here to tear the veil for millions; you can make a resolution every day. As a matter of fact, famous theologian Jonathan Edwards read through a list of resolutions every morning to start his day. "Resolved, I will...", was a commonplace in the early dawn, reminding himself to follow through on character traits and action habits that he wanted to define him.
My generation in 2014 is doubly behind the curve with American culture being augmented by crippling parenting. Toss in a side of invulnerability and selfishness that all 20-somethings fall into, and the future doesn't seem so bright. Not to mention complaining seeming like a normal, day to day exercise.
Here's the big tip to relieve all these problems: Mondays.
Yes, I said it. Mondays. Today, you spent all day complaining.
The weekend was so short! How can it already be time to work? When is our next holiday? What do I have to look forward to so I can get through this week?
Mondays hold the key to all these problems, as well as understanding how Americans behave. Knowing that Americans need some "special day" to get stuff done, let that day be Monday. I mean, how much better does it get? The start of a new week, five days to reinforce a decision, fresh beginnings and time for people (including you) to forget how last week didn't quite work out.
Splitting resolutions into weeks can have a snow ball effect on positive steps forward, breaks things up into manageable chunks, and leaves opportunity to continue on last week's decision or start a new one!
Thinking about the gym in terms of a year can be daunting. Yeah, so can thinking about how many hours of my life I'll have used brushing my teeth; hours I can't cash back in on my death bed.
"For two more days, I'll have no teeth!"
Humanism is an unavoidable reality. Let's use it to our advantage rather than our excuse.
Say it with me, "I love Mondays"
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