Seeking Your Green Pasture

Monday mornings are known for a lot of things, often the glaringly negative: getting out of bed to a cacophony of clicks, pops and groans from your bones after a weekend working in the yard; remembering you forgot your shirts at the cleaners Friday; knowing you’re not one hundred percent ready to face that 8 a.m. meeting, etc.

My first thought is usually “where did the weekend go, and why did I spend so much of it working?” followed by me slingshotting through the house getting ready for the week ahead.

Lately, especially after I started AlexanderG (and was blessed with clients and my fair share of projects), Mondays have been more acutely stressful, not less so (working for yourself is great, but the Boss can be pretty tough). That’s why after the kiddo kisses me bye-bye and is safely in daycare and my spouse is on her way to work I take five minutes to look at my calendar and prioritize my work for the week. This bit of organization is necessary for me to get things in the “right sized box” and keep me on task. Then, as all the frenetic thoughts begin to abate, I take ten minutes to do nothing more than clear my thoughts and quiet my mind.

For me, this brings perspective and a sense of some level of control over the chaos life throws at me (at everyone, right?). It doesn’t always work. Sometimes all I can think of is what’s next on my plate, but often I get to that green pasture of peace and quiet.

Call it meditation, call it relaxation, call it goofing off or even procrastination. I just know that those ten minutes or so of peace and quiet are as necessary and valuable to me as my indispensable cup of coffee and the kiss bye-bye from my daughter.

Try it.