On Monday morning, new work week, new morning, everything seems possible. There’s a whole new week to complete the cycle again, and better this time. How do we maintain that fresh “Monday attitude”?
Why didn’t I think of this before (and maybe I did — memory is an odd thing)? The answer is simply to tuck the knowledge of what day it is away in a file. Don’t call it a “Monday attitude”; call it a “morning attitude.”
W. Somerset Maugham famously said, “I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at 9 o’clock sharp.” But what if we release 9 o’clock from its deadline? Instead of “inspiration always strikes at 9,” let’s say, “inspiration always strikes.” Would I post more than once a day in my blog? Would I sit down at 7:15 p.m. and bang out a story?
The possibilities are endless. And OMG, what a big idea THAT is — the list of possibilities, the available options, goes on to infinity.
The possibilities are endless! With all due respect to the writer of Ecclesiastes, everything is not meaningless, everything is possible!
Dead ends do not exist. (OK, everyone dies, but only once!) If you’re lost in the woods, you have at least 360 directions you can take to try to find your way back to a path. Yes, some are better than others, but —
Everything is possible.
If one possibility doesn’t work out, try another — the possibilities are endless.
