Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to plan a Monday adventure. Start the work
Speaker 1: week off with something to look forward to. This will
Speaker 1: help you beat the Sunday scaries and set yourself up
Speaker 1: for a productive week. So I recently ran an evening
Speaker 1: Hour's challenge where I helped hundreds of participants make the
Speaker 1: most of what I like to call the golden hours,
Speaker 1: that is the time between the end of the workday
Speaker 1: and bedtime. I love teaching participants my strategies for making
Speaker 1: evenings meaningful. I also love learning from the participants about
Speaker 1: what they do and what makes their evenings great. One
Speaker 1: participant mentioned that she always plans something to look forward
Speaker 1: to on Monday evening. I love that idea. Plenty of
Speaker 1: people find Mondays stressful and exhausting. Maybe you don't sleep
Speaker 1: enough on Sunday night, and then you have to shift
Speaker 1: gears into work and activities. There might not be a
Speaker 1: lot to look forward to. But if you plan an
Speaker 1: adventure for Monday night, the day feels less like a slog. Now.
Speaker 1: I know that might not sound immediately promising, but When
Speaker 1: I say adventure, I mean something you are genuinely looking
Speaker 1: forward to. Maybe that's meeting up with a friend for
Speaker 1: a drink, or going to a yoga class with your
Speaker 1: favorite teacher, or taking your kids out for a treat
Speaker 1: after school. Even if work is intense on Monday, you
Speaker 1: have something refreshing to look forward to. Your life isn't
Speaker 1: all meetings and email. There is fun and variety too.
Speaker 1: In addition, because you want to make sure you have
Speaker 1: time for the special experience Monday evening, you may also
Speaker 1: work more efficiently during the day so that you can
Speaker 1: leave work at the time you planned. Even Sunday nights
Speaker 1: may be better when there is a Monday adventure on
Speaker 1: the horizon. You won't tell yourself a story that life
Speaker 1: is all work in exhaustion until the next weekend, when
Speaker 1: you know that in less than twenty four hours you
Speaker 1: are going to be doing something fun. Now you may
Speaker 1: be wondering if this can work practically, but if you're
Speaker 1: trying to do something social, I think the logistics of
Speaker 1: Mondays might actually be easier than other days. Most people
Speaker 1: tend not to schedule as much for Mondays and Tuesdays
Speaker 1: as later in the week, which means that if you
Speaker 1: want to get together with someone, there is a good
Speaker 1: chance that they are free. So why not try planning
Speaker 1: a Monday adventure as you do your weekly planning this week,
Speaker 1: try creating space for something a little different Monday night.
Speaker 1: If you plan something and decide afterwards that it is
Speaker 1: just not for you, that is fine. But my guess
Speaker 1: is that when you are enjoying yourself in the middle
Speaker 1: of the Monday adventure, you will realize that Mondays aren't
Speaker 1: all that bad and that is a great way to
Speaker 1: start the week. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,
Speaker 1: or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura
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