Day One – Seek Balance
It’s Monday again, and I don’t mean that in any sort of dispirited fashion, it’s just that Mondays have become so typical in that they are the days that you race into work and plunge headlong into your projects and yet just minutes before you leapt out of the gate you were reticent to start the toil.
My neighbor was walking her dog which started out with her dog running at a clip around one half of the bayou, and then as they rounded the bend, my neighbor was carrying her dog. I saw her at the tail end and she said, “This happens every time, he runs the first half and lays down and needs to be carried for the second half.” She looked down at the dog whose tongue was touching the concrete, “Can’t you balance yourself out?”
Mondays seem to suck the energy out of the beginning of the week because the work is all just sitting there awaiting your return to it and it seems overwhelming on Monday and there is a need to tame the beast, and then as the days come and go, so too goes our energy (read: desire) to complete all the tasks at hand.
So for today, this first day of the rest of my life – is there time for additional reading? is there time for physical activity? is there time for reflection? No? Then make time.