Today is Monday. The fruits of last week’s labor have all been eaten. You must restock. The leisurely, gluttonous way you operated for the last 72 hours is gone. It’s a new week and it’s business time.
You are now expected to greet the Monday Morning Inbox Hero with the same enthusiasm you exhibited during that afternoon coffee you had on Thursday. Even though just yesterday you were chasing waves caked in sunscreen and eating burritos. So snap to it!
I used to struggle with this transition. I have struggled with all transitions really. Life is basically just paddling out over and over again. Taking sets on the head with (hopefully) few rides along the way. Transitions are the gnarly shorebreak you gotta get through and Mondays have always presented a particularly brutal genre of shorey.
But I found the antidote and I swear to you this tool, one of the most ancient of timepieces on earth, has changed my 2025 life and led to more surfing time, more family time and more happy time.
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