"While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea.  But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes...Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers.  Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.  Each act is a rite, a ceremony.  Raising your cup of tea to your mouth is a rite.  Does the word "rite" seem too solemn?  I use that word in order to jolt you into the realization of the life-and-death matter of awareness."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Work today.  Life begins anew.  Again.