All you need is a Monday, or in my case, a Saturday, but for the purposes of this blog post we’ll recognize a Monday for what it is most of the time–a smack in the face realization that the fun has ended and the work has begun. I saw this image on Facebook on Monday, and it drastically changed the way I’ve been thinking about this week. More specifically, that last little line at the bottom.
 

Make this the week you change your life.
 

At the time, it flitted in and out of my subconscious quicker than a cat video goes viral, but it somehow snuck up on me when I got home after work Monday night. I sat down at my computer to attend to my usual side projects, but I felt the itch to accomplish something.
 

I thought to myself, what if I really did make this week the one that changed my life? What if I really pushed myself to work on the things I enjoy, experiment a little, learn a little, and see what comes out of it? I also read a really great article on side projects in general by 99U, which basically talked about approaching side projects like they were experiments, so as to not be so afraid of failure. But my side projects haven’t seen fruition not because I was afraid to fail, but because I was too lazy to think about the bigger picture. I start them, and once that’s all set I feel like the plan to actually make them into something awesome feels too big for me, and I let it slide away.
 
Not this week. I was going to let this week change my life. And why not? We’ve all got mystery waiting for us at the end of the road, (as of this moment I’m not sure we can be bloggers in heaven) so we might as well PUT THE PEDAL TO THE METAL.
 
So I attended to those side projects, all of which are basically little things I work on so that they can one day become side projects. I happily stayed up till around 1am each night working on stuff that’s not really stuff yet. It’s like the preparation of stuff, and the researching of stuff, with no pressure to finish, fail, or succeed at any of it. And when I don’t feel like finishing the stuff, I’ve told myself you know what? What do you want more, to lay down right now, or actually accomplish this shit? The same goes for money, most of which I’d like to save so I can actually see these projects to completion. So I tell myself, what do you want more, the momentary exquisiteness of a Jersey Mikes sandwich, or to build that iPhone app you’ve been thinking about non-stop?
 
So it’s time, you guys. It’s time to make this week and every week after, better than all the ones previous. And I truly believe it’s possible to incrementally become the better version of yourself with each passing day. It’s like that saying (I’m full of them today):
 
“Don’t compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to you, yesterday.” –some awesome person somewhere at some point in time.
 
Today you will not be as scared as you were yesterday. Today you will finish up what you started last night. Today is the most updated version of yourself there ever was. How does it feel?

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Monique is an exceedingly happy human from LA. She runs the blog A Novel Quest, and writes. A lot.

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