Motivation Monday, I sneered, well before noon, as the complexity of what stretched out ahead of me seemed to go on forever. In irritation I slammed the computer closed by 12:30, opting to address several less challenging tasks, but rather than helping me to feel even a tiny bit efficient it caused me to view my failures even more grimly. Sometimes you have to do a number of things when you hit a roadblock. There are thousands of articles and conversations on such topics floating around out there in cyberspace, offering tricks and tools for restarting your day, viewing situations in a different light, or sidetracking onto a completely alternate method of work to circumvent that which rose up to stop you. I've tried many of these suggestions and today I wasn't even in the mood to consider anymore options so I sulked instead; pointlessly pinning a few things on Pinterest and surfing around Twitter for couple of news stories I'd been following didn't offer any inspiration or closure.
The house needed to be cleaned up from the weekend so I dove into that as an escape. Maybe I'd reconsider my being at an impasse differently after chasing dust bunnies and scrubbing nose prints off of the windows, or perhaps I'd just run out of this irritable energy and subside into a less chaotic state of mind by this evening which would allow me to go back to the beginning and refocus. But maybe for me, right now on this Monday, there isn't a refocusing on those specific projects. Perhaps I need to offer myself a workaround of sorts and an alternate route to travel instead, because maybe a more abrupt, better defined shift to a totally different project would be more my speed. WHAT IF for me, the road isn't EVER going to be through the forest, but around, over or under? Maybe like a superhero mole I need to start tunneling, or find a faster mod of transportation AROUND since it's going to take longer, or heck, perhaps I'll just bypass all those possibilities and charter a hot air balloon to take me OVER the forest all together.
MAYBE I'm not the problem, but rather the forest is what lies between me and my goals. Maybe I will take those steps back and consult Google for the Balloons-R-Us company to glide me to the other side, because I'm still moving and working - I just got a little bit stuck in one place. I ditched the vacuum and headed back to my laptop to tackle not steps one or two, but instead six and seven, trusting that if I let my brain flow in a different manner perhaps, that I could wind up with the missing pieces falling into place later. After all, it doesn't matter sometimes how we get there. What matters is that we DO get there, and moving towards the goal line, a bit more carefully than some others, and yet still with all the pieces in place, is me.
Always have an alternative route. Always.
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