Tuesday is the new Monday

How’s the start of the working week for you? After a long weekend, what’s your Monday approach? Bust in from 0 to 60, pencils sharpened and ideas popping? Or procrastinate like a slow loris crossing the road, with no lunch money and odd socks?
According to an Insta-expert friend, rushing to hit the Monday checklist is the sure road to ruin. There is no need, she says, to get it all done at the start of the week. She explains:
“I’ve become an advocate of #slowmondays. This is about starting your week off in creative mode, not frenetically whizzing off emails (that are unread as other people are simultaneously doing the same). It’s about getting things done at your own pace. It differs to #procrastination. A #slowmonday is more productive in the long run, all part of wellbeing and taking care of yourself.”
She makes many good points on top of all that, which you can see if you check out @morethanjustlistening.
I am resigned to Mondays, but not afraid of them. They come round every week sure as day follows night, each one a mini New Year’s Eve waiting to pop open like confetti. They are a chance to start over and reinvent the schedule, hopefully in a positive and fruitful way. Another opportunity to make the new week your best yet.
As a home worker, it feels doubly important to set the bar high, so the ensuing five days don’t unfurl like a long scarf losing its thread. My aim is always to start on Sunday night, checking the desk planner, honing my to-do list, tidying the desk, even.

Some weeks it works; sometimes it doesn’t. Today, for example was a big F for faff. I fell down several Insta rabbit holes, loitered too long in Sainsbury’s, filed old papers, fixed my wobbly desk. And I should know better (see my post on how to work at home without doing all that).
I’m glad there is a new school of thought about giving Mondays a break. Won’t that make me loiter in Sainsbury’s on Tuesday instead of Monday?
Obviously a procrastination day…