Death, and Life — #MotivationMonday

Your weekly motivation — April 1, 2024

At first glance, this quote doesn’t seem motivational. All the talk about perishing, and on a Monday at that!

However, this quote is very apt this particular Monday.

Not only is it the first Sunday of April, which happens to be the first month of the second quarter of the year, this Monday is also the day after Resurrection Sunday, as I’ve come to know it versus Easter Sunday.

Interestingly, the quote comes from the end of The Legend & Butterfly, a 168-minute fictional film that I watched on Good Friday night. It wasn’t a conscious choice but it reflected the occasion.

In the context of the film, the quote is ominous — it’s uttered just before the protagonist meets his death.

Yet, the first line hints at what he believes awaits him — an eternal life in heaven with others who have gone before him.

Similarly, Resurrection Sunday brings the promise of eternal life in heaven for those who believe in the sacrifice and hope of the Lord who died on the cross.

How does this relate to Monday?

“Monday blues!”

“I wish the weekend was longer!”

“No life for the next five days!”

If those are your thoughts about Monday, it can seem like life has no meaning and is dreadful!

However, when you apply the quote to reality, you’ll realise that your life on earth is short.

Do you want to spend your short time on earth being resentful about work? Especially when your work is a huge part of your daily life — eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, three to five hours of meal breaks, three hours for miscellaneous other stuff.

Why not turn it around and look at how work enables you to have the life that you want? Take holidays, buy Starbucks coffee, have champagne brunch or high tea with friends, pay your mortgage, buy gifts for family members, own a gym membership.

Or how work lets you learn new skills? Time management, stakeholder management, organisational skills, presentation skills, problem solving.

When you look at the blessings that work gives you, you just may say:

“Yay, Monday! Another day to live the life that I want because I have work to do!”

Tell me: What do Mondays mean to you?

#thoughtoftheday #startyourweekright