Monday Motivation #8 (Unchain Your Mind)
“There are losers, and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.”
Well, well, well…look what the cat dragged in. If it isn’t another sad, pathetic, good for nothing, mangy Monday.
Nah, I’m just kidding. There’s nothing fundamentally different about a Monday. Just another day labeled as arbitrarily as the day that preceded it. Mondays are a figment of the mind. A construct tricking us into thinking we’ve arrived at some sort of meaningful starting point.
Of course, we’ve arrived nowhere because to arrive we must first leave, and look at us, we are exactly where we’ve always been. We’ve left nothing because there is nothing to leave. There is just simply now. A singular moment gone as soon as it arrives.
And now we’re onto the next. Look at us go!
But it’s all a trick of the mind, this concept of time. Of progression. Of starting and stopping. Of weekdays and weekends. They’re all the same, really. Just singular moments parading as something more.
And yet, all that matters is what we choose to do with this singular moment.
So forget Monday–it’s just a name anyhow–and ask yourself, “What am I going to do with singular moment.” I hope you have a good answer. Now get down to the comments and share!
Well since Monday’s always proceed after a day of rest (usually), the idea of getting back to “work” is what makes Mondays feel like a drudgery. It also creates the idea of “starting” while Friday has the idea of “ending”. Ending work. Ending a long week. Ending the obligatory productive cycle defined as “work”. Which is different to a hobby, or your own personal goals which are also work but there’s enjoyment to it, and a limited time to which is significantly less than the Monday-Friday period.
Nonetheless, it is still all in the mind. Something we’ve been taught from the youngest age right through adulthood. We are aware that life is made of singular moments and it’s only in hindsight that we notice them.
To unchain your mind sounds simple, but practically, how does one go about it? As the video says, we’re living in our heads, but what does that execution look like? It all sounds possible and plausible, yet at the same time still “in our heads” until the practical application. What does it look like?