It’s Monday.
As the kids say, “LFG”.
The effects of your decisions today will impact the rest of the week.
Will you get out of bed and put your feet on the floor the first time your alarm goes off, even though it’s darker than it should be and you’re more tired than you thought you’d be?
Or are you going to snooze and push back that wake up time again, setting you up for a “tomorrow I’ll…”
Are you going to get to the gym today, start that new plan and throw out all the bad food you have in the refrigerator from the weekend?
Or is life going to get in the way, the thoughts of convenience and comfort trumping the decision you know you really need to make?
The list of decisions could go on and on, but the point is that today makes all the difference.
As humans, we’re strangely attracted to the significance of start dates.
New day, new week, new month, new season, new year, new decade of life, etc.
I don’t fully understand the programming that makes us that way, but I can tell you for certain that I see it consistently.
Whether it’s good or bad, I’m not sure.
What I can say with confidence, is that if you don’t seize the opportunity of the new start date, the rest of the time period will be less successful than it could have been.
If you miss a Monday, it just doesn’t feel like a full week. If you don’t take the action you know you should on Monday, it’s going to be much harder on Tuesday. And if you don’t do it on Tuesday, you’ll probably just start to look at next week for your fresh start.
That’s how days off turn to weeks that turn to months that turn to years that turn to “how did I get here’s?”
So let’s go. Even if the day is already getting away from you and you already feel the pull towards complacency and next week-ism.