Conquer Your Hill: A Journey of Perspective and Attitude

Good morning and happy Sunday! Welcome to Butterfly Thoughts with Kelly Savage. In today's episode, Kelly shares an inspiring story about overcoming personal challenges, symbolized by a daunting hill near her home.

Kelly reflects on her initial reluctance to tackle the hill, rooted in fear, excuses, and medical conditions. She explains how a shift in perspective and attitude led her to face and conquer this obstacle, ultimately transforming her life.

Join Kelly as she encourages you to identify and confront your own "hills"—whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Discover how changing your mindset and embracing challenges can bring freedom, victory, and positive change in various areas of your life.

Happy Sunday and may you find the strength to conquer your hill!

Episode Transcript

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Good morning. Happy Sunday. This is Butterfly Thoughts with Kelly Savage.
There is this one hill. Just one for now. Let's focus on this one.
Sometimes just focusing on one hill at a time is best. But let me explain.

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We are currently at our house right now for about eight years.
Moved in eight years ago.
I didn't even give this hill a thought.
This is an actual hill that I'm talking about near our house.
I always loved to walk, but at this point in my life, moving,
other things, I was not walking as much, but rather going to the gym.

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About a year later, I started to want to walk again, be outside,
side, be able to regroup mentally, de-stress, and walking was my thing.
I believe walking is best for body, mind, spirit, and rather easy to do and get fit and stay fit.
We have a nice neighborhood to walk and pretty easy sidewalks that are, well, you know, flat.

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That's where I started. Going around the circle.
I came by the hill I speak of now I looked up No, thank you. I don't think so.
It just wasn't appealing Why?
Maybe I thought it was too much work Maybe I was lazy Maybe I didn't think I

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would make it so I didn't want to disappoint myself as I have always challenged myself.
Maybe I just convinced myself I wouldn't hurt or I would hurt with my bulge discs tomorrow.
I don't know the reason that I didn't, but I sure remember having those excuses
and looking up laughing and then kept moving on the flat ground with my refusal attitude.

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Fast forward a bit. Something changed.
Well, I changed. challenged remember
that I was always one to
challenge myself and it hit me one day why would
I not try it it's a hill it's not a mountain it's not a small mountain big mountain

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it's not Mount Everest it's a hill please note it was my perspective and attitude that changed the
direction from that point forward.
I always walked. I always loved fitness. Back in the day, meaning younger,
I did the good old Taibo, advanced almost every day, walked,

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did all kinds of different things.
But I'm older now. Yes, that was an excuse for a bit too.
Life happens, age comes. Bodies ache a bit more.
Chronic medical conditions, torn ligament. Oh, not to mention the back and neck discs.
I just shouldn't go up a hill like that, right? Wrong.

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Hills are all around us. Mountains sometimes.
Excuses stop us. Fear can stop us.
Even legit medical reasons can alter how we do life let me say here hills can be anything in our life.

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They can be physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual hills that we do not
think we want to try, that we refuse. We don't think we can.
We shy away not believing in ourselves.
We see too much work in changing it or overcoming it, so we just keep walking on the easy path.

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Listen, my friends, I was there, so I'm confessing my own shortcomings.
Let's fast forward a little bit and let's go on a fast track.
I had enough of my own attitude towards the hill.
I didn't want to let my medical conditions or bulge disc dictate a challenge
that might make a difference in my life.

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I did the hill. I suffered the first few times. Sure did.
My butt hurt, my legs hurt, my discs hurt.
The morning after, swollen back, had to regroup a little bit.
Ego was hurt a little bit too.
But I chose to keep trying it. Maybe alter it a little bit.

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Keep it a little safe. Small steps, you know.
What I'm trying to say with my health story is what's your hill?
What's your mountain? Your obstacle? What are you avoiding out of fear,
hard self-reflection, hard steps, or small baby steps?

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What makes you feel like taking just the easy road when a hill that you can
overcome could bring freedom, them.
Victory, bring you up levels in your life.
Victory. We all have hills, they may be different sizes, different things,

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different areas in our life.
But a fact remains, we all have them.
And they indeed can be overcome.
As with me, two very important things changed to start the process.
My perspective and my attitude.

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Can I repeat that? Before my victory, before my freedom, before the process
started, two things had a change in me.
My perspective and my attitude.
And can I say the rest is history? And now I laugh at that hill?

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Not like I used to with a refusal attitude, but with an attitude of what's next?
Bigger hill? Mountain? How can I up the challenge and what can I overcome?
This, I must say, affected different areas in my life as well. And so it can for you.

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It will take a decision on your part. No one else.
It might take hard work. It might take work broken down in smaller steps or smaller goals.
It will take commitment. It will take consistency.
It will take a different perspective and it will take some attitude changes

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that might possibly hurt.
But one thing I do know, it can be done.
There's freedom. There's victory. and then other things start to change in your life to the good.
So what's your hill? My prayer for you today is that you recognize your hill.

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This helps you and you start your process.
Happy Sunday.