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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is about how to make Monday's more enjoyable.

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Speaker 1: Monday's definitely get a bad reputation if you believe what

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Speaker 1: you read online, they may actually be dangerous. One study

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Speaker 1: found that the risk of a heart attack was greater

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Speaker 1: on Mondays for adult men and greater for adult women

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Speaker 1: than on other days. Now, I will say I don't

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Speaker 1: want to blame this all on work. Further analysis has

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Speaker 1: found that even retires see a spike in heart attacks

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Speaker 1: on Mondays, and they don't have a boss expecting them

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Speaker 1: at their desks at eight am sharp. So possibly these

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Speaker 1: statistics are delayed reaction to how people behave on the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and they're not the fault of Monday itself. That said,

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Speaker 1: a few people list Monday as their favorite day of

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Speaker 1: the week. But I think it's quite possible to enjoy

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Speaker 1: Mondays even if you don't love your job. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot you can do to make Mondays into something to

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Speaker 1: look forward to rather than dread. The key is thinking

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Speaker 1: about how you spend your Monday's and then building in

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Speaker 1: a treat or two structurally into your schedule. If you

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Speaker 1: like to exercise in the morning before work, maybe you

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Speaker 1: and a good friend could arrange to meet each Monday

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Speaker 1: morning to go for a walk or run together. Spending

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Speaker 1: time with people who energize you is one of the

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Speaker 1: best mood boosters around. Couple that socializing with exercise, and

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Speaker 1: you're going to start Monday with a bang. Your commute

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Speaker 1: can also be a source of joy. The easiest option

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Speaker 1: is to save a favorite podcast for your Monday morning drive.

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Speaker 1: You can listen to before breakfast any weekday morning, but

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Speaker 1: a number of podcasts come out just once a week,

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Speaker 1: so slot a favorite to Monday and you might find

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Speaker 1: yourself looking forward to getting on the road. Another smart

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Speaker 1: idea is to schedule a recurring lunch with work friends.

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Speaker 1: At every Monday. You and two to three co workers

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Speaker 1: could grab lunch together at a year by restaurant. That way,

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Speaker 1: even if you don't particularly enjoy what you're doing between

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Speaker 1: the hours of nine am and twelve thirty pm, when

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Speaker 1: your alarm goes off Monday morning, you know you're only

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Speaker 1: a few hours away from good food and catching up

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Speaker 1: with great company. Some people tell me they build and

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Speaker 1: treats on Monday evenings to reward themselves for getting through

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Speaker 1: the work day. If you have a hobby, why not

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Speaker 1: try to engage in that hobby on Monday nights. You

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Speaker 1: could join a choir that meets on Mondays, or a

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Speaker 1: volleyball league with Monday night games. You could organize a

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Speaker 1: regular T G I M Happy hour. You could find

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Speaker 1: a favorite class at your gym and go to the

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Speaker 1: Monday night option. Or maybe your family does something fun

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Speaker 1: together on Monday nights. You take your family out to

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Speaker 1: a favorite restaurant, or you do some other adventure like

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Speaker 1: going on a walk or playground trip together if it's light,

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Speaker 1: if you tend to shuttle kids around to Monday night

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Speaker 1: sports practices, building something fun for you like thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: reading a favorite book, And don't write off your work

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Speaker 1: itself as a potential treat. Now, that might sound a

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Speaker 1: little strange to think of work as a treat, but

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Speaker 1: even if you're not in your dream job, there are

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Speaker 1: probably some parts of your job you like. We talked

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Speaker 1: in a previous episode about how if you have a

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Speaker 1: tendency to procrastinate, Monday morning can be a good time

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Speaker 1: for doing the toughest parts of your job and getting

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Speaker 1: them over with. But if that's not the case for you,

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Speaker 1: then maybe the first hour or two of Monday morning

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Speaker 1: can be reserved for the project you like best. You know,

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Speaker 1: the one you're actually excited to work on when you

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Speaker 1: start Monday excited. That feeling can help you survive the

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Speaker 1: rest of a challenging work week. So today, think through

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Speaker 1: how you normally spend your Monday's. Think about what treats

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Speaker 1: you could build into your normal Monday schedule. What would

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Speaker 1: you look forward to? Because if you can turn yourself

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Speaker 1: into the kind of person who looks forward to Monday's,

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Speaker 1: I promise you'll have a much more joyful life. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's

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