Monday mornings we can come into the office already set up to not have a good week. We sit down at our desks and before we go to our first meeting or begin our work day, we pull up our calendar and survey the week. When we see a week full of back-to back meetings, travel, or projects due, etc., without even recognizing it we could find ourselves beginning to feel calendar fatigue. On the most horrific weeks we sometimes have to muster all we have to find the strength and the endurance to make it through. It is also those weeks when we have to defend against allowing our attitudes to deteriorate and our moods to be affected by the waves of work that we see coming. If we don’t, then sometimes we can let Monday mornings influence the whole week and when that happens we have lost great opportunities to take it one day, one hour at a time and make the most of every moment in a positive and hopeful way. I am reminded what we are told in Matthew 6:34: “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” As we start this week, let’s not focus on tomorrow, when today is enough. Calendar fatigue only happens if we let it happen to us. With God’s strength and support there is nothing that is beyond what we can handle, so no matter the week or the day in front of us, let’s face it with the hopeful optimism and strength and attitude that tells the rest of our offices that we have something special going on.

Reference: Matthew 6:34 (New Living Testament)