Ah, it’s Monday already.
Your entertainment and free time are limited, and work responsibilities take up a huge part of your day.
Unfortunately, Monday always comes, you can’t escape it. But you can change your feelings towards this “most hated” day.
Here are some suggestions on how to love the beginning of the work week:
Make the most of your weekends.
You’re unlikely to have a great Monday if you’ve had a miserable weekend.
No matter how ambitious and dedicated you are to your career, you must use the weekends to enjoy and relax as much as possible.
Visit new places, try new specialties, organize family and social celebrations without an occasion.
When you have good memories of the weekend in your head, you will feel more satisfied with life and suppress the negative emotions that arise from the thought of the hated Monday.
Prepare an attractive/new fashion combination.
Look radiant on Monday and you’ll feel it too. Prepare a fashion combination in which you feel comfortable and fashionable and confidently walk through the day.
Prepare your clothes on Sunday night to skip the morning hanging in front of the closet with the thought “What should I wear today?”.
If you have a new piece of clothing, reserve it for Monday. You will be eagerly waiting to see what the reactions of your colleagues will be.
On Mondays, set your alarm half an hour earlier.
No matter how lazy you are to get out of bed, make an effort on Monday to get up earlier.
If you don’t rush your preparations and arrive at work a few minutes earlier, you will be more relaxed throughout the day.
Go to the hairdresser or manicure on Monday.
When you know that a beauty treatment awaits you at the end of the working day, you will go through your duties with greater ease.
Another positive side of Monday beautification is that there is not so much bustle in the beauty salons, so they will devote more time to you.
Stop living for the weekend.
You must have read a bunch of “I hate Mondays” , “I can’t wait for Friday” , “Yeah, it’s the weekend” statuses.
This way of thinking reinforces negative emotions.
Yes, it’s true that weekends are the most fun, but no one is stopping you from having mini-adventures during the work week too. It all depends on you and your attitude.
Think of the unemployed and be thankful and happy that you have a job.
Think about it this way: While you hate Mondays, many people long to have a job and be in your shoes.
Resist the temptation to sleep through the weekend.
It’s easy to sink into bed and sleep 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday, but that way you won’t make up for the sleep that the work week robs you of.
On the contrary, on Monday your body will have a hard time adjusting to the new schedule of sleeping and getting up. Try to wake up around the same time on the weekend as you do during the work week and you’ll beat Monday laziness.
Hide yourself a little sweet surprise.
Every Friday, leave a small chocolate or your favorite candies in your desk drawer. Every Monday you will have a smile on your face when you see the little surprise.
Do your Monday schedule on Friday, but don’t cram in too many commitments.
Instead of leaving some unfinished business for Monday, complete as many of them as possible on Friday, and then plan what must be on Monday’s agenda.
Buy theater, concert or cinema tickets for Wednesday night.
People are in a much better mood on Thursday than on Monday.
The reason is obvious – the approach of the weekend and the idea of fun activities increase our joy.
To make Monday more bearable, buy yourself “party tickets” for Wednesday. When you know that something interesting awaits you in two days, you will be more optimistic and skip the “spitting” on Mondays.
Make someone else happy.
Promise yourself that every Monday you will do at least one good deed. Make a donation by phone, treat a homeless person, buy a coffee for your dear colleague, take cakes to colleagues or shower them with compliments, send a very nice message to a loved one…
Happiness returns, sometimes double , sometimes triple.
Look at Monday as a chance for a fresh start.
Mondays are great for dreaming and achieving. Do you have a new idea or plan to improve something in your work? Do you want to start a new diet because you were unsuccessful in the old one? Mondays offer you the opportunity to start over, turn a new page in your life and do something you’ve wanted for a long time. You can write a whole new chapter of your life starting on Monday.
