How to love Mondays?

Dear Strangers,

I love Mondays.

I know, how is it possible for anyone to say that?

Let me start by being very honest with you, this Monday didn't start that well. When I fell asleep last night, I was excited. I usually plan the next week on Sunday evening, and it motivates me to jump out of bed the next day and handle the day right. I planned the week last night, just like I always do, and went to bed happy.

I woke up early, made myself a very big cup of coffee and worked on execution on one of my goals. I finally decided to take the first step on something that is completely outside of my comfort zone and that I have been postponing doing for a long while.

But then, time was up. I needed to go to my 9 to 5, and I just wasn't feeling like it. I wanted to work on my goals, on things that I am interested deeply in and want to make a living of.

That though, isn't possible yet. So, I dragged myself to work suddenly feeling completely different than just two hours before.

Man, I really didn't want to go.

So, what can you do in that kind of a situation.

The first thing I tried was thinking positively and brainwashing myself. If we try to think about Mondays differently, we may realize that Mondays are a fresh start. Whatever happened last week that maybe you have failed or simply were lazy to do, you can do it this week. You can fix it right this Monday. I tried with this, but it didn't work out.

Then I tried another thing that worked for me. I stole away moments from my work to work on my dreams.

For some time now I wanted to set up my YouTube channel and publish one vlog weekly composed of about four or five days of my week. I kept postponing this because I didn't know where to start. I knew that doing YouTube well doesn't just mean posting a video on my channel and waiting for people to see it. I have already done thorough research and made myself a checklist of all the things that I needed to do to start YouTube right and then I started procrastinating. Monday was the right day to tackle my checklist and cross things off one by one. But first I had a whole day of interpretation in front of me, my dreading 9 to 5.

What I was also lucky to have this Monday is not that many meetings and small, boring administration things to handle, so I had about 2h, whole 2h, to set up my future dream. What a blessing!

I told you Mondays are good.

But, if you don't have this luxury, what is one last thing you can do?

First, I want you to return home and take a long shower. This works, I promise, stay with me. Then I want you to change into something that you feel comfortable in, take your laptop and go to a cafe that you like (a cafe that is not that loud preferably), and choose one task to work on. Don't write yourself a to-do list of ten tasks that you suddenly want to complete, because you will fail in this, there are only a few hours left today. Choose one thing. One thing that will make this day a success. Let that one thing be the one step that you took to get closer to your goals.

If you use any of these three, you will always have a successful Monday. You're welcome.

Yours,

Violeta