Motivation Monday: God, a Cup of Coffee, & Motivational Quotes

It has already been a crazy Monday morning at the DeWitt's house. We wake up at 4:45 am and when you don't get much sleep that alarm clock almost sounds like your last call. While we both didn't get much sleep last night, we still have aggressive jobs that seek all our attention and a clear mind. So for Motivation Monday I thought I would keep it simple and give you some inspirational quotes to go with your morning coffee. Let's be honest sometimes it takes God, a good cup of coffee, and a few motivational quotes to get us ready for a crazy work week.

I found all these quotes on Pinterest and created a motivational Monday board. Some days I just want to lay in bed and never leave the comfort of it. On those days my motivational board really comes in handy. 

Question of the day: What quote gives you motivation for the start of your work week?

Thoughtful Thursday: Love Language

Today for thoughtful Thursday I thought we would keep the Valentine's Day feel going. Have you heard of the 5 Love Languages? The love language quiz is based off of The 5 Love Languages book that was written by the Christian author Gary Chapman. Now I do highly recommend this for couples, but there are also books to learn your children's love language too. You can find that book here.

Since I do not have children, I can only speak from the point of view of the 5 love languages for the married couple book. We got this book as a wedding present, and it was amazing what we found out about one another. We had been together for five years, before we read this book, and I thought I knew the right way to show my husband my love. I was wrong....way wrong. I was showing him love by doing things that I would want to receive. This book says this is the biggest mistake we can make. Assuming we should give love as we would want to receive it.

After taking the quiz I learned that Chris' love language is acts of service. So this means that he feels loved when I surprise him by folding clothes he forgot to get to. He always gets all excited when I wake up on my off days just to make his breakfast and kiss him goodbye. Now please don't think that Chris didn't like the things I did before. They just didn't jump out to him as much. I loved this book because not only did it give tips on what to do to show your loved one how much you loved them, but it also shows what to avoid. I cannot tell you how much we both learned from this book.

This weeks challenge: Learn your loved one's love language. I will leave the quiz down below. Once you have learned their love language do something for them to show them how much you love them. The quiz is great and informative, but it does not go into depth like the book does. I cannot recommend the book enough. MAKE SURE TO CLICK ON THE LINK TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE QUIZ. YOU CAN FIND IT HERE.

Question of the day: What is your love language, and do you have the same as your spouse or child? 

Wisdom Wednesday:Jump out of bed

I read this quote and thought wow this person must be really smart, happy, and just have it all together. Now I have no clue what their life consist of. They may actually be all those things, but one thing I do know, is this is a wise quote. This type of mindset has the potential to change how we see mornings, goals, and how we live out our day to day life. 

I know for myself, that it's easy for me to forget that I need to actually LIVE everyday, and not just go through my routine. This quote has inspired me to make a small goal every day that makes me excited about living the one life I have. I wake up Monday-Friday at 4:45, and let me tell you when you are waking up before the sun it is hard to be excited about anything. 

I challenge you to take some time out of your day today, and write out a few goals that you think would make you excited for the day to come. I also challenge you to not only make those goals, but meet them. 

Here are some goals that I have that make me excited, and feel free to take them, add to them, or laugh at them. Some of these goals may be weird to others and that's okay. We all need a good laugh right? 

-Rearrange items in the store. I LOVE when I get inspired to change things up. I will write or sketch out my idea the night before, and it gets me even more excited for the day to come. D and I rearranged yesterday, and I LOVED it. D trusted me to do an arrangement that I think was out of both of our comfort zone. It was exciting, new, and challenging. Everything I want in a goal. 

-Finding new ways to worship God. I make goals to go deeper in my faith. A goal could be as simple as use my new journaling Bible (that I am loving by the way) or to make a goal of showing God's love that day. Some of the hardest goals I set are dedicated to my faith, but they are the most rewarding goals. 

-Having a clean house. I know that most of us myself included want to jump out of the bed to clean. If you do PLEASE tell me your ways!! Anyway, I never get excited about cleaning, I am not a neat freak by nature. I have to push myself. What gets me excited is looking at pictures on Pinterest, knowing how a clean house will ease my anxiety, and how much my husband loves a clean house. Also knowing if someone pops by and my house doesn't look like the next episode of hoarders makes me excited too. 

-Improving my health. Remember me telling you I wake up super early, yeah well I also workout at 5 am. Yeah I know I think there is a screw missing in my head some days too. My goal is to get my health where I want it. I have seen too many loved ones have terrible health problems, and I don't want to go down that road. Heart disease runs in my family. A goal of breaking that cycle really pumps me up. I want to say that I did it. That I proved everyone wrong. that this isn't just a phase, and that I CAN do this for myself. 

Question of the day: What goals would make you want to jump out of bed?

Remember we can make our every day to day routines exciting. It's all about the mindset.

God's Love

Happy Valentine's Day! I know that many people don't look forward to Valentine's Day, so we wanted to turn that around. Love is a beautiful thing, and there is nothing more pure and beautiful than God's love for you. I wanted to take this chance to celebrate the best love I could ever ask for. I made some digital art with some Bible verses that are dedicated to love.

I also wanted to share a blog and her free download for this month. I know we are half way through the month, but this is too amazing not to share. Robin has taking Bible verses that are dedicated to love, and she has made a calendar that has you read a verse a day for the month of February. This is one of the best blogs I have found and you can check it out here! Make sure you head over to her blog so you can download and print out your February Bible journaling calendar! I could spend all day on her blog! 

http://www.biblejournalingdigitally.com/free-february-bible-journal-prompts-calendar/

Question of the day: How are you spending your Valentines Day? No matter what is going on in your life. God's love will never fail you, and will always be there for you to lean on. 

Love you all, 

Ashley