Slow Mondays

**SLOW MONDAYS**

Mondays have a bad rap. Conceived as the first day of the work week, it arrives with demands immediately to ones schedule, emails piling up, meetings, errands, school drop offs. Before you know it, Sunday nights are no longer restful. My early career living and working in Manhattan, I recall being overtired, short-fused, stressed and and living in a constant state of overwhelm.

We are all busy. What would happen if each Monday morning you gave yourself thirty minutes and invested those thirty minutes in something that matters to you. Take a walk at dawn, read a chapter of a book, some poetry, play an instrument, prepare breakfast, sit down and eat slowly without any technology. Had I only known what I know now those many years ago. Creating meaningful rituals doesn’t have to take a lot of time and yet can bring an extraordinary amount of peace into one’s life. Mondays in my house are now deemed 'Slow Mondays'. I know not everyone can make it a slow day. Why not a slow morning?

A small change that quite possibly could offer a new outlook to your day and your week.