Monday Motivation Is Stealing Your Creativity

Take back your time

There is nothing that suffocates my creativity more than my misguided belief that I have no time for it. I know this to be factually true and yet, I often come up against the same wall — “I need to do this right now, instead of writing…” or “I don’t have time to write.”

Lately too it’s become apparent that the “hashtag Monday Motivation” culture doesn’t serve me either. Because my definitions of time, productivity, and creativity are already so convoluted (something that I am actively working to undo and set right), the push for a spurt of motivation on a Monday sets me up for failure.

To me, it reads more like, “If I don’t have the right motivation on a Monday to hit the ground running, there goes the rest of my week.”

This is no way to grow a craft or to understand creativity outside of the barriers of productivity.

I’ve slowly started detaching myself from sudden, intense spurts of motivation and instead am choosing to reclaim my time and sustainable, long-term habits. I want to practice growing motivation daily, no matter what I’m doing on a given day.

For instance, I’m writing this on a Monday where my motivation to write is low, but my motivation to accomplish life errands is high. Since starting to…