Monday's Musings   "Just Start"

Mondays can be really tough, can't they? A daunting battle, in the truest sense!  The weekend is behind you, there are too many days until the next one, and so many things to be done in between.  Sound familiar?  If your house is anything like mine, it can take half (or all!) of Monday just to get yourself sorted out...to get back to where you were on Friday, when through that mysterious Friday magic, "all was right with the world."  Monday is altogether a different creature.  Those forgivable foibles, jobs not fully finished, and overlook-able piles of clutter just seem like friendly company, a familiar part of your life's landscape on Friday.  Come Monday, though, they haunt, tease, glare at you! With a good enough imagination, one could almost here them taunting "We're still here! Do you have What it Takes?"


So, here's my approach to Mondays...just start.  From putting that reluctant toe onto the floor to tackling the detritus of a family weekend all over the house, that has to be my mantra.  (A bracing cup of tea or coffee is highly recommended first, but just start.)  It simply must be a head down, don't look at the big picture, keep going, stay focused, take no prisoners and for God's sake take no phone calls, kind of campaign!  Just start...gather the garments of weekend battle strewn in each room, close closets, drawers and cabinets, grab shoes, jackets, and various "weapons" of sport.  Assess your various "theaters" of action...which bathroom must be done and which can wait?  Brave the laundry "war room" and launch that attack...resist the "what is truly dirty and what was just tossed on the floor?" quagmire.  Just load the cannon and fire!  Retreat swiftly to the main battlefields...empty wastebaskets, remove empty toilet paper tubes and install the fresh roll that was set on top of the empty one (and don't ask why? Don't!).  March through, knowing that task after task brings you one step closer to victory or at least an important advance against the enemy!

I have a ring with these words engraved on it "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."  This is what Mondays are all about.  It may also help to remind ourselves of those three little famous words (no, not those three little words, but the ones brought to us by Nike), "Just do it!"  Mondays are a "Whatever you need to tell yourself" proposition.  So,  just start and oh, by the way....to you mothers out there in the blogosphere...Happy Mother's Day!  Soldier on!