“Monday” has been the start date for a lot of plans that quietly died on Sunday night.

A future start date hands you the relief of having decided without any of the difficulty of beginning, which is why deciding feels so good on a Sunday evening. By the time Monday arrives the feeling has been spent, and the plan has to run on something else. Most of them never get that far.

Do the smallest version today instead, even five minutes of it, so the thing has already started. Something in progress survives far better than something scheduled. Keep Monday for continuing rather than for starting.