https://owntheleap.com/tags/motivation/Recent content in Motivation on Own The LeapHugoen-usMon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/what-i-keep-going-back-to/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/what-i-keep-going-back-to/<p>July 6. Inbox at 7:08. Twenty-two days in one column, fourteen in the other. The holiday weekend dissolved the way those weekends do, not fast but unevenly, and now it is Monday and I am back at the desk where I have spent roughly eleven of the last twenty-four working years.</p> <p>The company I work for does not have a formal policy about Monday. We log on, or we arrive, or whatever the verb is when your commute is fourteen feet. I logged on at eight. Had two meetings before ten. Answered seventeen emails, which I know because I counted, out of a reflex I cannot fully explain.</p>