Why your best plans fall apart by Wednesday, and what to do about it

I’m writing this from a hotel room in Santa Marta, Colombia after 4 spectacular days of Carnival in Barranquilla last weekend.

And somewhere between the last night of carnival and checking into this hotel, I made the most spectacular plans for this week:

Write from my stunning hotel room, inspired by the view of the Caribbean sea.
Gym every morning.
Eat well.
Catch-up on work calls and emails.
Research for my upcoming newsletters.
Batch my podcast’s episodes production.

Because the party is over and I finally have a nice quiet room and a good wifi connection, so obviously THIS was going to be the week I got on top of EVERYTHING.

You know how this ends...right?

I’ve done maybe 20% of that list and I’m not really sure what happened to the other 80%.

So why am I telling you this? Because you probably do the same thing, just with different scenery.

Maybe yours is Sunday evening, planning a beautiful week that falls apart by Wednesday.

Maybe it’s the 1st of January, buying a gym membership and a juicer and genuinely believing you’ll actually use both.

Maybe it’s the first Monday back from holiday, convinced you’ll keep that rested, relaxed energy going (narrator: they did not keep that energy going).

Same move every time.

You feel calm, rested, optimistic, and you make plans from that place.

Then real life shows up and the person who actually has to execute those plans is tired, stressed, and one minor inconvenience away from a meltdown.

I’ve started calling these two people Sunday You and Wednesday You.

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