I don’t want to go to work today
I ‘d rather stay home and play
Video games- home, chill – Jill Scott “Gotta Get Up (Another Day)”
After a long, much needed, enjoyable, stress-free mini break for the holiday; I am singing the Monday work blues. Not feeling motivated to be back in a crowded office with different voices because mines is more obnoxious than the others. My obnoxious soundtrack is a precious melody in my own palace, but sings a different tune when I hit the waxy vinyl composition tile of disgust (WORK). I would rather stay home basking in my own thoughts and free lounging in my own space, but I got to get up.
Jill Scott is a musical genius for this track that daring goes where most of us don’t want to go……that place where we loudly confess our lack of eagerness to return to work. Although this is a daily anthem for myself, Jill sings us into a lackadaisical mood of dragging our feet to the solitude box we call work. She paints a picture of a person not ready for the work day in front of them, tired of the constant 9 to 5, and ready to explore a new possibility. Jill’s flow over this track motivates us to get up and face another day, but giving us the chance to make it a must different day than before. 
I don’t know how you feel but sometimes I feel like I’m
Workin’ for nuthin’ tryin’ to get sumthin’
Every where I turn there’s a bill standing out
Swim the river climb the hill
Complacency you ain’t gone get me no no no no – Jill Scott “Gotta Get Up (Another Day)”
The fact of having the option of staying put and in bed leaves many of us facing the bill blues. Knowing that a day off is a dollar lost; we peel ourselves out of bed to get in line and walk the walk that many others dauntingly take. Yes, its dreading. Yes, we don’t want to do it, but Jill confesses that complacency won’t allow her to swallow in her feelings. Getting up to me today mean designing a plan to get myself out of the work day blues and into a job that doesn’t feel like work. It’s an anthem to motivate us to rise up to our dreams so that familiarity doesn’t settle in and comfort and dislike doesn’t take residence. Its the repetition of “I gotta get up” to remind us that there is more out there to obtain and that one place called “work” isn’t going to stop us from living.
Instead of dragging in today i’m going to set my speed to cruise control and fly under the radar. I won’t allow toxic energy to taint my already on the end feelings about “the place”. I will blast my drums with flowing music and plan an easy day for myself. Doing less to stress myself and more to please me. Balancing my ill feelings with great feelings of what I will face the next day, the day after, and the day after that until I am in the place designed especially for me.
So yes, I still don’t want to go to work, but I know that today is another day closer to living my true dreams and sailing away from the horrible and annoying workday blues. Until then……I gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta get up
Get up!
mOOd – Getting UP for sure this time!
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