Return before motivation asks for another ceremony.

Motivation likes ceremony. It wants a clean start, a Monday, a new notebook, a proper plan, and each of those requirements is another reason to delay. By the time all the conditions are met, weeks have gone, and the ceremony has done more to keep you away than the original obstacle did.

Go back before the ceremony assembles. Today, mid-week, with the old plan and no preparation. Beginning badly right now beats beginning well at some point that keeps moving.