Monday Morning Call to Action

How many times have you started out with tons of motivation and a full task list that you are ready to plunge into on a Monday morning? Then by the end of the day you have run out of steam? The rest of the week your desires get lost amongst the other things that you are juggling in your life. Then you focus again on your task list and get revved up over the weekend to repeat the cycle again the next Monday. Does this sound familiar?

Tackling the tasks around our desires is not always smooth sailing. So often, we become filled with energy and enthusiasm and are ready to tackle the world, but our task list is overwhelming. We haven't really thought about the time investment in addressing specific items. That is why, before you plunge into your Monday Task List step back and evaluate how much time each item will take. Some may take only 30-45 minutes. Other items, may take 3-4 days to accomplish. Perhaps, choosing 1-2 items to address on your list for Monday would be the best. Keeping it simple and keeping your task list brief can be a tool to getting more done than you anticipated. Plus, when you have only 1-2 items to address and you accomplish them, you can have a good feeling which increases your motivation instead of finding yourself overwhelmed.

I encourage you to break up all the things that you would like to do into categories. Put time frames attached to them. Decide on what times of the day you do best to perform specific items. For example, maybe you like to do physical organization in the morning because you feel more like moving around in the morning. In the afternoon, you might schedule more of a thinking item, because you are better at thinking in the afternoon.

Let this Monday be the first day that you tackle only one or two items on your to do list. Then perhaps you can find some "do nothing" time in your schedule. Let's check in on Friday and see where you are and how you feel if you do less each day instead of loosing momentum because of a huge "to do" list.

Mary Catherine George

LifeChoices Coach