Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to start Monday morning with something really fun.
Speaker 1: This stretches out the weekend and makes the start of
Speaker 1: the work week feels so much better. This tip comes
Speaker 1: from long time Before Breakfast listener Kirsten. Rather than succumb
Speaker 1: to a case of the Mondays, Kirsten writes that she
Speaker 1: plans something special for Monday morning. This way, I go
Speaker 1: to bed on Sunday night feeling like I still have
Speaker 1: one weekend treat ahead of me, she says, with a
Speaker 1: work week not starting until she's actually at her desk.
Speaker 1: Here's how this works. She sets her alarm a little
Speaker 1: bit early on Monday mornings. Then she'll do something with
Speaker 1: the extra time, like making her own latte, complete with
Speaker 1: foaming milk. It takes an extra five minutes, but it
Speaker 1: feels totally decadent, like something I would do on the weekend,
Speaker 1: she says. On the Monday she wrote me, she took
Speaker 1: a leisurely walk around the block and listen to a podcast.
Speaker 1: Sometimes she does a yoga tutorial online or she meditates,
Speaker 1: but anything she notes from painting watercolors, to reading a
Speaker 1: book to making a nicer than weekday breakfast works. The
Speaker 1: net result is that her weekend feels longer and her
Speaker 1: work week feels shorter. I love this idea. Even if
Speaker 1: you love your job, Monday's can feel stressful. If you
Speaker 1: don't love your job, shifting from this mindset of time
Speaker 1: that you control to time you don't can breed anxiety
Speaker 1: and unhappiness. But either way, you can push those emotions
Speaker 1: forward until the exact moment that you sit down to work.
Speaker 1: By seizing Monday morning for something that makes you happy,
Speaker 1: you can start the week well. Now. I know this
Speaker 1: is harder for some folks than others. If you have
Speaker 1: kids who wake up unpredictably or who you need to
Speaker 1: get ready and out the door, Monday mornings can feel frantic,
Speaker 1: even with the best intentions. But even so, you can
Speaker 1: probably seize a few moments for something that feels like
Speaker 1: a treat. If you've managed to engineer time to take
Speaker 1: a shower, you can make it more like a spa
Speaker 1: experience with nice soaps or lotions. You can wake up
Speaker 1: really early for a favorite workout, or leave home fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes early and stop by your favorite coffee shop, to
Speaker 1: linger over a cup made just how you like it,
Speaker 1: take ten minutes to read a good book. The point
Speaker 1: is to spend at least a little bit of time
Speaker 1: on Monday morning in a way that brings you pleasure.
Speaker 1: Do what you need to in order to make this happen.
Speaker 1: Then you'll go to bed Sunday night feeling like there
Speaker 1: are good things to come and not just the daily
Speaker 1: grind waiting for you when you wake up. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to
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