Coffee ready?

It's funny how a morning can have an "oversleep" vibe, and your body knows it in your sleep and makes sure you do, in fact, oversleep. Thanks body!

Here's something I notice on Sunday mornings, before the coffee's even done its job: a low hum in the background. Not quite dread, but in the family. The week's coming. Monday already has a shape, and I didn't pick all of it.

In fact, if you are a "block time" person, then you'd say Monday already exists and already happened. You just haven't made it there yet to see how.

Most Sundays I don't look straight at that hum. I let it stay a fog — a general "here we go again" — because a fog doesn't ask anything of me. It just sits there and turns the morning a little grey.

But when I actually stop and ask what, specifically, I'm not looking forward to this week, the answer is almost always smaller than the fog. One conversation. One task I've been dodging. One hour on the calendar I wish wasn't there. Not the whole week — a piece of it.

And a piece is something you can work with. The whole week isn't.

So that's the check-in. Sometime before Monday, name the one thing you're actually dreading. Not the vague weight — the specific thing, in about five words. You might not be able to change it. But you'll have traded a fog you can't hold for a thing you can look at, and that trade is almost always worth making.

Keep the coffee hot.

-Mike

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