Shoshin Mondays (or Tuesdays): The Art of Beginning Again

There is a particular electricity that hums in the air at the start of a project.

The table is cleared, the drawings are fresh, and the team is alert.

Even if the work resembles what came before, the clarity of beginning again makes it exhilarating.

I used to chase that feeling.

The first meeting, the first sketch, the first hammer swing.

Not because it was new, but because it was renewed.

Wanting to prolong that sense of fresh possibility, I made a quiet decision:

Every Monday would be treated as the start of a new project.

A reset.

A chance to see the week not as a burden to drag, but as a blueprint to build.

In Zen, there is Shoshin, the beginner's mind.

An openness, a freshness, a willingness to approach the familiar as if it were the first time.

This is not naïveté; it is presence.

So I turned Monday (or in this case, Tuesday) into my own Shoshin practice.

The ritual is simple:

• Open the week as if unrolling a new set of drawings.

• Stand at the threshold of time as if it were a site waiting to be built.

• Begin with eagerness, not exhaustion.

The project may be familiar, the tasks routine, but the mindset transforms them.

Each week becomes a dojo, A place to practice, to test, to refine,

To turn the ordinary into mastery.

Field Note:

No matter what was built or broken last week, if you meet each week as a fresh beginning (a restart), you return the mind to clarity, again and again.