Pushing Through Monday and Tuesday

I’m feeling the time crunch as I write this entry, since I waited until the end of the day, have my cycling workout to complete (after I change my outdoor tire to my indoor tire), and hopefully do all this and still leave time to catch-up with my wife after she gets back later this evening from a longer than usual day. I am glad I sat down to write, as I started to feel some of the tension ease as I opened up the blog editor.

(As an aside, I really like the clean layout of the Ghost Blogging Platform’s editor. It’s extremely clean and distraction free, which makes it easy to get focused on the writing.)

For whatever reason, Mondays and Tuesdays always seem like big pushes for me. Things seem to start easing up a bit on Wednesday then continue to do so through the weekend. I’m hoping that by writing this post the reasons for this may start to become clearer to me.

Now that I’ve written that last sentence and am actually trying to figure out the reasons why, I’m hitting a wall. Let me just continue to write my way through it to see if that helps.

Mondays and Tuesdays feel like tough climbs. Maybe its the desire for me to catch-up after taking a break on the weekend. It could also be that these are the two days that typically extend longer than the others when it comes to the working day, since I have commitments on Wednesday and Thursday evenings that require me to shut down at a more regular time. I’m also wondering if it is because these are two days where I more or less isolate myself in the home office to try and focus on getting things done, again coming back to the idea of trying to catch-up after taking a break on the weekends. Reading this paragraph back to myself makes me think I’ve come back full-circle, without really finding the answer, at least yet!

All these reasons probably contribute to the effort it seems to take to push through to Wednesday. My wife and I did take a nice leisurely bike ride to Brooklyn Bridge Park last night, which was a nice way to connect at the start of the week and break up what’s usually an otherwise pretty long Monday. I think that’s something we’ll try to continue, either taking a run or bike ride together on Mondays. The question now is what to do about Tuesday.

As I start to make these plans on how to try and make things a bit easier, I can’t help but feel caught in another paradox I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past few days. That paradox has to do with trying to find a balance between planning enough to not have to think about what I should be doing to maximize every minute in my schedule, with not planning too much so that the plan itself becomes restrictive and tension inducing. That’s its own topic for a future post that I’ll try and tackle tomorrow.