Your Sunday Seven!

Combating the?Sunday?Scaries

?We're back in your inbox for May's first email in our weekly professional development series: COMBATTING THE?SUNDAY?SCARIES!

Seven?Ideas to Improve the Upcoming Work Week!

?How is it May already?!

If you haven't caught on already, each?Sunday?evening we send you?seven?recommendations to help start your week off on the right foot.?Get knocked off the path mid-week? Use the ideas below for a reset.

?Here's to having a great week, every week!

?7 Ideas to Improve Your Upcoming Work Week.

?1. Start a journal. Tomorrow morning, when you wake up, write down three things you're good at or that you like about yourself. Keep it by your bedside and consider doing this activity before you do anything else, especially picking up that phone!

?2. Journaling Part 2, in the evening before bed, reflect on your day and write down three things you're grateful for.?This is a great way to give your eyes a rest from your phone and the TV as well. It's proven that if you reduce your exposure to blue light at least an hour before you go to bed, you'll sleep better.

Take that time and channel it towards journaling or reading (unless you're like me and just fall asleep after three words anytime you try to read in the evening, ha!).

?3. Pull your resume out of the depths of your computer; does it need an update? Make yourself feel good about reflecting on all the accomplishments you have professionally!

Even if you're not actively job searching, updating your resume every few months is hugely helpful. Even if you're just keeping a running tab of noteworthy happenings, it's easier to remember them in real-time than four years later when you're ready for a full update.

Plus, if a passive opportunity comes your way, you won't be so behind the eight ball!

?4. Book lunch or coffee with a mentor or former colleague you haven't caught up with for a while. #networking

?5. Plan a date for the end of the week, whether it's with your spouse, kid, mom, or blind...a social event - or even a date with yourself - planning something for the end of the week gives you something to look forward to.

?Bonus: make it an outdoor activity because A. we know I love those B. Vitamin D is good for you and C. so is activity!

6. Commit to learning a new skill and buy a course on Udemy (We recommend our interview course), but we might be biased, lol.

As I like to say, you can learn everything from how to code Python to how to fry an egg on Udemy, browse around and take your pick.

?7. Use the gym membership you haven't used in a year :-)?

?If that gym membership - or new Peleton that finally arrived - you bought during the third week of January when you committed to working out more this year is collecting dust and getting a little lonely - use it (or, for God's sake at least cancel it so you're not wasting money!)

I know firsthand how hard it is to commit to a workout routine. I'm more motivated to work and work out, so I get it. My secret? I get up at the *sscrack of dawn to head to CrossFit.

Lucky for me, I unexpectedly made some amazing friends (and it turns out I really like living heavy things) at my 6 am class, so now working out is SOCIAL HOUR!

Bingo for this extrovert. Now I have forced accountability from my girlfriends who will text me all day long wondering where I was and going in the morning ensures I can't use the "eh, my day was really long" excuse come 5:30 pm.

Do what you gotta do, folks!

Have an amazing week. Your Friend and Coach,

Angie