Monday is the most revered day of the week.People fixed crucial events
on this day.It's a day that brings the diligents to limelight and
unclads the lazy ones. Monday is so special that even a popular musician
sang about it.Do you think the day is worth the reverence being given
it by most people or what do you think is so special about the day?
Read the articles by Kelvin Campbell:
So you don’t like Mondays. Why would you want to roll out of an easy
breezy weekend, sleeping in late and doing exactly what your heart
desired only to head into the first day of the working week.
Well, there's a method and a good reason to every madness. It all
depends on THREE things. ATTITUDE, ATTITUDE AND ATTITUDE and a POSITIVE
one at that!
So here is a list of ten reasons how you can turn your Monday into YOUR ADVANTAGE and why Mondays are actually great.
1) MONDAYS OFFER SECOND CHANCES
Mondays offer you a FRESH new start into the week. This doesn't mean Friday will NEVER come. This simply means, you have a fresh chance to do things a tad better than the week prior and to improve yourself. If you started last Monday by yelling at someone and losing your temper, remind yourself not to allow such behaviour and attitude to take over you again. Why start off on a bad foot at the beginning of the week? Why allow negativity and negative energy to roll right into the rest of the week? Find one thing you didn't like about last Monday, find one thing you think you could have handled better and make that positive change. Having a cranky morning is no reason to create a negative domino effect. Just imagine being on the receiving end of your own cranky mood. Not so fun anymore, huh?
2) MONDAYS OFFER FRESH LISTS
Take advantage of the beginning of the week and write up a fun or ambitious to-do list to accomplish by Friday. Embrace your challenges. Challenge yourself. The only opponent that can stop you is yourself! So make it fun and rewarding - Friday will feel a lot better once you see and feel your accomplishments.
3) MONDAYS KEEP YOU GROUNDED, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE.
As much as responsibilities take the fun out of life, they are healthy reminders to keep you grounded and back on track. They also help remind you of your priorities right at the start of the week giving you a fresh chance to make a difference, regardless of the nature of your job, goal or passion. Without the feeling of feeling valuable, responsible, mature or grounded, you will start to lose passion and ambition and embrace laziness. This happens when you start to "let yourself go" and when you start to feel like you're not contributing enough to the world by doing your part. This can lead to some really bad habits. So Mondays are wonderful and necessary - they are the structural and foundational days that can keep your feet planted into reality. Consider the first day of the week to be your cement.
4) MONDAYS ARE ABOUT TOUGH LOVE & HEALTHY ROUTINES
Every Monday prepares you, teaches you, sets you back on track and throws you right back into some form of routine. Whether you work at home, outside or go to school, you're NOT alone and ROUTINE helps to build healthy habits.
It may suck to wake up with the roosters or an annoying alarm clock, but it will sure as hell feel great when you've looked back to see how much you've accomplished just by staying focused regularly. When you integrate a healthy schedule into your life - things start to happen. Yes, great things such as meeting deadlines on time, having more time to spend with your family, and having more time to spend with yourself - all because you kept your positive habits, goals and working habits in order, consistent and organised. When you implement a set routine, the rest of the week speeds through much easier, faster and productively.
5) MONDAYS HELP YOU BALANCE YOUR WEEK
Let's face it - without Mondays, you would most likely take the rest of the week for granted and not really appreciate the casual weekend breaks. How would you appreciate a break, when you haven't worked hard? And if every day was a weekend, you'd soon start to get bored and dread that too! So look on the bright side. Mondays offer you the chance to balance your week from the get go! Work hard, play hard - and face Monday morning with a ROAR. (Or maybe with a cup of coffee first)
6) MONDAYS ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY - STOP COMPLAINING
Society has given Mondays a really bad rap. They have made 24 hours seem like the scariest hours a human being can ever experience.
So here is a list of ten reasons how you can turn your Monday into YOUR ADVANTAGE and why Mondays are actually great.
1) MONDAYS OFFER SECOND CHANCES
Mondays offer you a FRESH new start into the week. This doesn't mean Friday will NEVER come. This simply means, you have a fresh chance to do things a tad better than the week prior and to improve yourself. If you started last Monday by yelling at someone and losing your temper, remind yourself not to allow such behaviour and attitude to take over you again. Why start off on a bad foot at the beginning of the week? Why allow negativity and negative energy to roll right into the rest of the week? Find one thing you didn't like about last Monday, find one thing you think you could have handled better and make that positive change. Having a cranky morning is no reason to create a negative domino effect. Just imagine being on the receiving end of your own cranky mood. Not so fun anymore, huh?
2) MONDAYS OFFER FRESH LISTS
Take advantage of the beginning of the week and write up a fun or ambitious to-do list to accomplish by Friday. Embrace your challenges. Challenge yourself. The only opponent that can stop you is yourself! So make it fun and rewarding - Friday will feel a lot better once you see and feel your accomplishments.
3) MONDAYS KEEP YOU GROUNDED, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE.
As much as responsibilities take the fun out of life, they are healthy reminders to keep you grounded and back on track. They also help remind you of your priorities right at the start of the week giving you a fresh chance to make a difference, regardless of the nature of your job, goal or passion. Without the feeling of feeling valuable, responsible, mature or grounded, you will start to lose passion and ambition and embrace laziness. This happens when you start to "let yourself go" and when you start to feel like you're not contributing enough to the world by doing your part. This can lead to some really bad habits. So Mondays are wonderful and necessary - they are the structural and foundational days that can keep your feet planted into reality. Consider the first day of the week to be your cement.
4) MONDAYS ARE ABOUT TOUGH LOVE & HEALTHY ROUTINES
Every Monday prepares you, teaches you, sets you back on track and throws you right back into some form of routine. Whether you work at home, outside or go to school, you're NOT alone and ROUTINE helps to build healthy habits.
It may suck to wake up with the roosters or an annoying alarm clock, but it will sure as hell feel great when you've looked back to see how much you've accomplished just by staying focused regularly. When you integrate a healthy schedule into your life - things start to happen. Yes, great things such as meeting deadlines on time, having more time to spend with your family, and having more time to spend with yourself - all because you kept your positive habits, goals and working habits in order, consistent and organised. When you implement a set routine, the rest of the week speeds through much easier, faster and productively.
5) MONDAYS HELP YOU BALANCE YOUR WEEK
Let's face it - without Mondays, you would most likely take the rest of the week for granted and not really appreciate the casual weekend breaks. How would you appreciate a break, when you haven't worked hard? And if every day was a weekend, you'd soon start to get bored and dread that too! So look on the bright side. Mondays offer you the chance to balance your week from the get go! Work hard, play hard - and face Monday morning with a ROAR. (Or maybe with a cup of coffee first)
6) MONDAYS ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY - STOP COMPLAINING
Society has given Mondays a really bad rap. They have made 24 hours seem like the scariest hours a human being can ever experience.
NOTHING is that bad - not boring lecturers, not bad bosses, not
crying babies, not traffic jams, nothing - It's truly how we approach
difficulties and challenges; how we react to circumstances says more
about our own abilities than the thing we don't particularly "like."
So why not take advantage and turn the beginning of the week into something positive and healthy for yourself.
7) MONDAYS ARE ABOUT PERSPECTIVE AND ATTITUDE
Okay, this one is short - if you THINK you're going to have a terrible head slamming day, then that's exactly what will happen, because your attitude and thoughts in the beginning of the week, determines the rest of the week. Choose and pick your thoughts positively. Thinking negatively only draws negative attention to you. Thinking positive, will offer you a much more relaxing and rewarding week ahead. Go ahead. Give it a try. Breathe and enjoy the journey.
8) MONDAY IS A BLESSING IN DISGUISE
a friend of mine once told me that someone is always better off than us and worse off than us - and I couldn't agree more. If you find yourself swearing like a lunatic on a Monday morning while you're stuck in a traffic jam, if you find yourself complaining about your job and cursing your boss every Monday morning, (or employee), if you start neglecting your craft and procrastinating because "it's Monday," and you're NOT in the mood. STOP. THINK. & CHECK YOUR PULSE.
Imagine living in poverty, hunger, destruction, on life support hoping to see ONE MORE DAY. MONDAY doesn't sound so bad now, does it? Point being, you could be WORSE off - so appreciate the harder days - you've been given an opportunity to live boldly.
9) START AND END MONDAYS ON A POSITIVE NOTE
Rather than listening to horrible, negative, dark and gloomy news on the radio on your way to work, rather than telling someone off, rather than complaining ALL day about your terrible weekend or how you hate your gossipy co-worker, GROW UP AND ADJUST YOUR ATTITUDE. Why not listen to upbeat positive music on your way to work? Why not face and handle your issues and deal with conflict more maturely? Why not smile more, laugh out loud, do something spontaneous and make someone's day? Or make it feel like any other day of the week and go to bed feeling proud? Why be so political? Why be a mood killer? Why pout and curse? It's silly, over dramatic and childish, to start every week like this - and not to mention, unhealthy. I know hating a particular day of the week has become a trend - but look around you - who is observing your attitude? Yes, kids!
10) FREE YOURSELF FROM PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS
Just because it's a Monday, it doesn't mean it HAS to be a bad day, and it doesn't give you the right to complain and ruin everyone else's mood. Relax and Breath.
Mondays are about new opportunities, second chances, responsibilities that can make you feel important, useful and mature once you get into the groove - really. Give it a try.
Okay, this one is short - if you THINK you're going to have a terrible head slamming day, then that's exactly what will happen, because your attitude and thoughts in the beginning of the week, determines the rest of the week. Choose and pick your thoughts positively. Thinking negatively only draws negative attention to you. Thinking positive, will offer you a much more relaxing and rewarding week ahead. Go ahead. Give it a try. Breathe and enjoy the journey.
8) MONDAY IS A BLESSING IN DISGUISE
a friend of mine once told me that someone is always better off than us and worse off than us - and I couldn't agree more. If you find yourself swearing like a lunatic on a Monday morning while you're stuck in a traffic jam, if you find yourself complaining about your job and cursing your boss every Monday morning, (or employee), if you start neglecting your craft and procrastinating because "it's Monday," and you're NOT in the mood. STOP. THINK. & CHECK YOUR PULSE.
Imagine living in poverty, hunger, destruction, on life support hoping to see ONE MORE DAY. MONDAY doesn't sound so bad now, does it? Point being, you could be WORSE off - so appreciate the harder days - you've been given an opportunity to live boldly.
9) START AND END MONDAYS ON A POSITIVE NOTE
Rather than listening to horrible, negative, dark and gloomy news on the radio on your way to work, rather than telling someone off, rather than complaining ALL day about your terrible weekend or how you hate your gossipy co-worker, GROW UP AND ADJUST YOUR ATTITUDE. Why not listen to upbeat positive music on your way to work? Why not face and handle your issues and deal with conflict more maturely? Why not smile more, laugh out loud, do something spontaneous and make someone's day? Or make it feel like any other day of the week and go to bed feeling proud? Why be so political? Why be a mood killer? Why pout and curse? It's silly, over dramatic and childish, to start every week like this - and not to mention, unhealthy. I know hating a particular day of the week has become a trend - but look around you - who is observing your attitude? Yes, kids!
10) FREE YOURSELF FROM PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS
Just because it's a Monday, it doesn't mean it HAS to be a bad day, and it doesn't give you the right to complain and ruin everyone else's mood. Relax and Breath.
Mondays are about new opportunities, second chances, responsibilities that can make you feel important, useful and mature once you get into the groove - really. Give it a try.
It's about growth and preparation for the rest of the week, it's
about re-cooperating from the weekend, it's about getting back in touch
with reality and reminding yourself of your goals! It's also about
looking forward to a great weekend.
- Lastly, here is a fun dare - I dare you to take a different route to work, take morning walks before doing what you love, give someone a chance to prove themselves, listen to beautiful upbeat music first thing in the morning, make breakfast, do a little dance and shake in front of the mirror and go out after work with friends (yes, on a MONDAY!), spoil yourself on the way home, do something kind for someone at work, appreciate and be thankful for another day, and last but not least...I dare you to LOVE YOUR MONDAYS.
Have a great week and let me know how your Monday went!
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