You know, Mondays get a bad rap.

I know I know, everyone gets back to the grind after a little weekend time, but Monday is also a clean slate, a whole slew of new chances to get something going, a whole bunch of opportunities to find that “dare to be great situation” (Thanks Lloyd Dobbler) that’s how I’m looking at it today. I’m knee deep in some wonderful little projects, including 2 documentaries I’m really excited about, prepping 2 shows, and working on a feature film with a budget and fancy names, but in this weird little world, there’s so much stop and go, so so much of it, so much “this is happening! It’s been greenlit!” by the time the ‘T’ in the word “greenlit” is pronounced, it already had been shelved. It gets like that with any job, the huge anticipation, knocked over by a “wait, not so fast” and this isn’t just me, this happens all the time, Zach Braff ended up kickstarting his next film because of how frustrated he got with the stop and go, and even the wonderful Eddie Burns last week tweeted “Doing what I always do, writing the next script while trying to get the last one funded” it’s just the nature of the beast (Though Burnsy has Spielberg and Hanks on speed dial, a definite plus).

So with all of the uncertainity, insanity, and creativity mixed with frustration, sometimes the best way to deal with these curveballs by just keeping an open mind, looking for a punctuation point, looking for that moment where you can say “oh yeah, life throws you all kinds of nonsense, but I’m going to put in a few extra hours this week and try and win one”. Today, my punctuation point is this Monday, and check this out, I scouted a location for the feature film, will we use it? Maybe not, but a view like this isn’t a bad way to kick off a brand new week and brand new set of opportunities.

T.G.I.M.! Ok, that’s a bit too much. I should delete that line.

Have a great week everyone, hope you all find an opportunity for a dare to be great situation for yourselves. I’ll be trying to do the same thing here.

Take care and be good,
Tim