A new week can sometimes be like a new beginning, fresh and full of new opportunities and possibilities. Even if you usually know exactly what to expect in the coming days, there is always enough free space between the many planned tasks and appointments that needs to be filled. Most people hope that this free space will remain free until the very end and that they won't have to deal with unexpected problems that ultimately leave us no time to spontaneously depart from our daily routine.
However, it often happens that when you have some peace and quiet during the week, you just want to close your eyes for a while. We simply don't have the strength to get up again and seek out life. We need this strength for our own many tasks, often imposed by others, and in moments of idleness we simply want to take a deep breath and relax. After all, we have to get back to work shortly afterwards and the next project requires our full attention.
Life therefore always seems like a treadmill to us and we are the little hamsters running around in it incessantly. Even if it seems that we are the ones who keep everything in motion like little cogwheels, it is actually completely different people who turn the big wheel. Our position in this great clockwork may seem predetermined and unchangeable, but only because we do not dare to break out and deviate from the path we have partly chosen for ourselves.
Even if we don't want to admit it, it is ultimately up to us where we end up at the end of the week and even at the end of the day. Every Monday and every morning offers the chance for a new start, which we can determine and direct ourselves. There are many reasons why we don't dare to spontaneously explore new paths, which are usually understandable and explainable. We are not always given the opportunity to break free and break out, but it is often our own lethargy that holds us back and makes us repeat everything that we actually want to change.
It doesn't always have to be a revolution to overthrow the kingdom and turn the system upside down. You can start with very small things that primarily affect only you. And then you look and reflect on whether there are any changes that occur.
Are you in a better mood at the end of the day? Do you feel less tired and perhaps have a little more energy to do one or two things that weren't on your to-do list at the moment?
Anyone who can answer these questions with a yes should definitely congratulate themselves. And you should continue building upon this and use this perhaps small momentum to enlarge the small smile you saw in the mirror. Our aim should be to also feel this smile and let it guide us.
And if we succeed in feeling this very smile already on Monday morning, the week ahead of us can only be a good one...
