Here we go again. It seems like I am obsessed with Mondays, I know!
I'm not but you know how it is on Sunday's people start complaining that it is soon to be Monday morning and time to head out to work and start another day of drudgery and servitude. So essentially these people ruin the whole of Sunday evening lamenting what is to come in just a few short hours.
Then comes the beginning of Monday and the alarm wakes them up, they instantly begin swiping their hand around for the alarm and make a noise akin to a bear with an incredibly sore head.
Then they return home and surely they are over the moon that Monday's workday is complete and they have tackled the seemingly hardest part of the week. NO! They precede to elaborate in the most gory and elaborate detail just how utterly awful Monday was.
Often people start Tuesday with an incantation along the lines of:
"Oh god, please let today be better than Monday!"
Inspiring way to begin a new day, right?
You may sense from my seeming chastisement and what may appear as scorn that I am above this sort of thing, right? You may imagine me to be someone who has the perfect job, the perfect life and skips out of bed, singing:
"Oh what a beautiful mooooorning" as I shave.
You may think that I have a zen-like mastery of my emotions and a flawless 'Vulcan logic' that allows me to see what others cannot, that it is merely a day like any other and why should Monday the 29th be any different to Monday the 5th or Tuesday the 11th October...
You'd be wrong!
I am just as equally affected by these things as anybody else. In some ways I am so passionate and vehement in my dislike of my job, you could say I have more reason to be morose about starting another week from day one all over again. These things simply do not work like that though, do they?
Ok full disclosure I wasn't actually working today. I work on a shift pattern basis and sometimes I work all weekend and half the weekdays sometimes I start my workweek on Sunday morning, sometimes Thursday morning and sometimes I am on nightshift both Saturday and Sunday nights and my work-week finishes on Monday.
My point is this, Monday is a state of mind that doesn't actually have all that much to do with a weekday that starts with an M at all. Sometimes you can have a pretty good Monday at work and the rest of the week goes rapidly downhill from there. However the following week it is Monday that earns the 'bad rap' all over again.
That just doesn't seem fair does it? Poor old Monday.
Even though I wasn't working today, as the previous week ticked on, my Monday was shaping up to be a pain for several reasons. I'll be honest here, although I don't remember it I probably commented to my lady that I wasn't looking forward to Monday but as the weekend wore on I realised that is a terrible attitude to accept before the day arrived so I formulated a plan.
I decided on a list of things I would accomplish before Monday was out alongside all of the essential stuff that had to be done.
As my day passed I was taking care of what was essential to the household and putting out some fires of which there have been plenty lately, and then fitting in a task I had assigned myself that I knew I would be happy to tick off the long term list or take the steps to prepare for a couple of creative goals I have set myself to accomplish before April is done in order to fulfil some meaningful goals I have set myself for 2021 as I intend to start my life on a whole new trajectory.
The effect was that I started to feel more and more energised as the day wore on. It is 11PM right now and I wish there had been a few more hours of Monday for me to smash as I felt that I have really cut in to so many new areas today without ever having felt overwhelmed.
I sincerely believe that any of us can plan what we want to achieve on any given day no matter if we have the perception that the day will be good, bad or just indifferent. Monday doesn't have to be all 'Mondayey' it really is just a state of mind.
In many ways this post isn't even about Monday's is it? It's about taking the initiative and making the very best of one of our days on Earth. The day was more about attacking things than following a plan, I wanted to smash through as many pesky things from the 'later' list as I possibly could.
The UK is about to start coming out of full lockdown in phases over the next few 2 months or so, if I take care of some of this stuff now I am essentially buying back some family time for when we are 'allowed' to go places and do things again.
It's crazy how many everyday, basic, rudimentary things will feel like 'events' when the lockdown is all over. I can barely remember having a meal in a pub, restaurant or spending a lazy hour in a café or at the beach. It will be nice to spend time on a few family leisure activities again.
If I spend a few more of my days cutting through the backlog of life stuff I can have more of those times. If I organise my time well and waste as little time as possible on the other days I can ramp up extra daily learning and practice for becoming a video content creator to see me embark on a whole other area of my life designed to allow me to leave my job as early as I can without jeopardising my family's cashflow.
Life really is for living and it really is there to be grabbed and moulded in to whatever we want it to be...
Even on Monday's!
Thank YOU for taking the time to read my post and if you're one of those amazing people who like to hit the comments section... Then I doubly thank YOU!
Either way I want you to know that you are appreciated!
