Monday morning.
The beginning of a new week. A fresh start.
Well-rested, with enough sleep and an empowering breakfast behind you, you get to the office. Your desk is still empty, as is the e-mail inbox. Slowly and with a relaxed pace, you start yet again from zero. Another week, with only 37 and a half hours of work to put in.
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Not so for the self-employed and freelancers among us.
This is how my desk looked this Monday morning. A tangled mass of unfinished jobs. A to-do list from last weekend, hardly tackled at all. Notes which only make sense again after re-reading them several times. Thousands of unanswered e-mails. Reminders of past trips to write about and of future travel to be planned. And more and more issues pile up every day.
(If you have a boring, non-fulfilling job with an insurance company or in some kind of marketing department, you are welcome to use this image as your desktop background. – Zur deutschen Fassung.)
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I start every Monday morning with gathering the mess of last week. Organizing papers, notes, maps, books..Three hours later, it looks like yours…
These are the precious three hours which I sleep longer on Monday morning.
It’s good that I move once or twice every year. This way, I have to throw away a lot of the old stuff at least.
Hello Mr. Andrej, I admire you present work and all kinds of activities you have been dealing with on your globe journey. As I know, you must be quite positively occupied, I simply wish you as successful continuation of your world – life exploring, especially with emphasize on human and societal development, which is crucial for our future in common. All the best!
Thank you very much for your kind thoughts and words!