I’m shutting down after an unusual day and just now realizing I missed my Monday morning routine… writing about Loving Monday!
How’s that for irony?!
Maybe the topic this week should be routines. Routines that facilitate regular, important activities versus routines that stifle, quench creativity and merely fill space.
The distinction comes when deciding when to “violate” a routine in some manner. Or, in this case, deciding how to interpret being distracted into inadvertently missing a routine.
Negligence or freedom? It could be either.
Key to being able to welcome the unexpected, confront crisis, and respond to what cannot be anticipated is being able to operate out of freedom. Freedom to choose routine. Freedom to vary routine. Freedom to abandon routine.
Are your routines blessings that facilitate consistent attention to what you value most? Or are your routines chains that bind your time and energies from attending to what you want?
Two very different sorts of work weeks result. It’s the difference between loving Monday or dreading it.
Would you share a routine of yours you value highly.