Mondays-What Can We Do About Them

Monday is actually the second day of the week, with Sunday being the first. So we are starting the week with a day of rest and Monday is the first working day.

But Monday elicits many bad feelings within so many of us. Usually those of us who are doing a job we do not enjoy. It brings anxiety which can start as early as Saturday night, feelings of dread on a Sunday which become downright misery by Monday morning.

I used to work on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with Monday being a day off. Tuesday was my first working day of the week-it did not feel like Monday does when I had to go to work. So why is that single day so painful?

I think we have been 'brainwashed' by so many people before us that Monday is not a day to be enjoyed because of those who did not enjoy their job. It is programmed into our brains that Monday is awful. There are songs about how bad Mondays are:

The Bangles 'Manic Monday'

The Boomtown Rats 'I Don't Like Mondays'

The Carpenters 'Rainy Days and Mondays'

New Order 'Blue Monday'

The list goes on!

What if we tried to 'brainwash' ourselves into thinking something different about Monday? Something positive - would it or could it make a difference? Would it take as much as actually doing something about it and changing the dreaded job to doing something you love/enjoy? Would that be so terrible?

My tips for a Monday (if you cannot bypass them by taking it as a day off):

-Be positive: think of it as the new beginning to the week that it is; time for new ideas, new plans, catching up

-Make some social plans for midweek so Friday does not seem a lifetime away

-Reframe it in your head: I am learning to love what I do and it is an opportunity to show off my skills

-Get some motivational podcasts or music on

-Read some motivational quotes

-It's not the end of the week-that was Saturday (remember Sunday is day 1)

-Just call it Friday for 5 days and see how you feel!