It’s ok to start on Tuesday.

We often tend to place a really high value on the idea of “Monday”. We romanticize the fact that it is the start of the week, and because of this all our problems will be fixed if we start on Monday. But then what happens? We stay out a little too late Sunday night, or the bed feels just a little bit too comfy Monday morning, and we end up hitting the snooze button one too many times, and just like that; The clean slate is ruined. This leads to a lack of motivation for the rest of the week because we feel like we already got off to a bad start, we have no momentum to carry us through the rest of the week.

This occurred to me far too often as a teenager and young adult, and if I’m being honest; I still continue to battle with it at times. We are human, we are flawed, and motivation is not always easy to find. However, the solution that has worked for me personally is to stop putting so much emphasis on the idea of “Monday”. This idea takes many forms, “New Year’s Resolutions”, “Spring Cleaning”, “Tomorrow”, etc. At the end of the day, it is all the same concept: Procrastination.

You don’t need a specific day to start a new good habit, or to end a bad one. Any day is a good day to be better than you were yesterday. Getting rid of this idea that you can ruin a clean slate makes starting a habit a lot less daunting. Nobody has ever turned their life around simply because they started working out on a random Monday. Even if they did, it wasn’t the Monday that did it, it was the fact they also went Tuesday, and Wednesday, maybe skipped out on Friday and Saturday, but got right back on it on Sunday.

One day of failing does not make you a failure, it makes you human.