WEBVTT - MOTIVATIONAL MOMENT: Overcoming the Monday blues 🌊

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<v Speaker 1>Get everyone's sam here and welcome to another motivational moment.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a perfect one for a Monday. Let's face it,

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<v Speaker 1>you have a good Monday, you have a good week.

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<v Speaker 1>I absolutely believe that. But leading it to chance or

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<v Speaker 1>just hoping things turn around all on their own probably

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<v Speaker 1>isn't the best way to go about it. So there's

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<v Speaker 1>three things I like to do on a Monday, the

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<v Speaker 1>three piece, Pause, prepare, and pomp up. All right, we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to get into that. So pause. It might sound

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<v Speaker 1>like a strange thing to do because obviously the week

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<v Speaker 1>takes off, but that's the whole point. How quickly does

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<v Speaker 1>it go from zero to one hundred when Monday comes?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you open up your calendar, your seat. It's

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<v Speaker 1>full of appointments and meetings and drop offs, and it

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<v Speaker 1>can just get very chaotic and very overwhelming very quickly.

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<v Speaker 1>So instead of jumping on the treadmill at twenty kilometers

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<v Speaker 1>an hour, why don't we take a minute to pause?

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<v Speaker 1>First thing on a Monday. Now, that might be meditation.

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<v Speaker 1>It might be going for a nice quiet walk. It

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<v Speaker 1>might be doing some gentle stretches. It might be simply

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<v Speaker 1>walking outside getting some daylight, letting that sun hit you

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<v Speaker 1>in the face, and just spending a couple of minutes

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<v Speaker 1>taking some big, deep breaths. But it's all about you

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<v Speaker 1>being in control. Don't get thrown onto that treadmill like

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have control over it. Take a minute to

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<v Speaker 1>pause and prove to yourself that you are going to

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<v Speaker 1>control the pace of your week, not the other way around.

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<v Speaker 1>Then there's prepare And I like to write things down.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been proven that it helps us compartmentalize, and it

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<v Speaker 1>helps us deal with things by breaking them down into

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<v Speaker 1>constituent parts. Often when we just go boom, look at

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<v Speaker 1>this week. Oh my god, where do I start. It's Monday,

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<v Speaker 1>It's Tuesday. Look my way. It's so crazy. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what I'm going to do, and I do this.

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<v Speaker 1>I've experienced this, I've been a victim of this. But

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<v Speaker 1>if I write things down, Okay, this is what my

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<v Speaker 1>week actually looks like, This is what my calendar actually

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<v Speaker 1>looks like. Here are my priorities. I even like to

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<v Speaker 1>look at where are my gaps where I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>be able to give myself some love? And I like

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<v Speaker 1>to write that down. I'm going to go for a

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<v Speaker 1>walk there, I'm going to get a haircut there. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to get a massage there. Whatever. It might be

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<v Speaker 1>just a little bit of me time to keep the

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<v Speaker 1>balance palatable, which leads to the next one, which is

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<v Speaker 1>pump up. You're going to take it one step further.

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<v Speaker 1>You're going to actually put something in there that is

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<v Speaker 1>going to excite you that he is going to fill

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<v Speaker 1>up your cup. Now, you don't have to do this

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<v Speaker 1>on a Monday necessarily, but at some stage early in

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<v Speaker 1>the week, you're going to plan something that's going to

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<v Speaker 1>occur before Sunday night hits that you're looking forward to.

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<v Speaker 1>It might be a movie that you've been waiting to

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<v Speaker 1>see for a long time. It might be book yourself

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<v Speaker 1>into a restaurant, it might be catch up with a friend.

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<v Speaker 1>Because if we have nothing to look forward to, all

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<v Speaker 1>of the other have to do tasks can become a

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<v Speaker 1>real grind. Whereas if you are doing those because it's

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<v Speaker 1>a means to an end, as you are moving towards

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<v Speaker 1>something that you're genuinely looking forward to, every single one

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<v Speaker 1>of those things is going to become a little bit easier.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think it's really important to not just live

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<v Speaker 1>day to day, you know, to not just wake up

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<v Speaker 1>and then automatically put yourself in a bad mood or

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<v Speaker 1>on the back foot, or in a feeling of stress

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<v Speaker 1>and anxiety because you've sort of stuck your head in

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<v Speaker 1>the sand and I don't want to look at tomorrow

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<v Speaker 1>because I know it's busy, know what's coming. Give yourself

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<v Speaker 1>time to deal with it, give yourself space to deal

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<v Speaker 1>with it. And it's like anything, you've got to remind

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<v Speaker 1>yourself if I say no to something, the world's not

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<v Speaker 1>going to end if I cancel something or postpone something,

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<v Speaker 1>because it's important to me to give myself a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit of space. And I feel like this week is

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<v Speaker 1>totally out of balance. That's okay, people will understand the

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<v Speaker 1>world wig and end. It's really important that you manage

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<v Speaker 1>the kilt of your stress levels, your overwhelmed levels, and

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<v Speaker 1>your busyness levels. You know what your task is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be this week. We're going to beat those Monday

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<v Speaker 1>blues by you doing the three piece. And if you're

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<v Speaker 1>listening to this a little bit later in the week,

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<v Speaker 1>you can start it next week. Pee pause first thing

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<v Speaker 1>in the morning. Second, pe prepare, look at your calendar,

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<v Speaker 1>put some spots in there for you but get yourself organized,

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<v Speaker 1>and then pump yourself up, get yourself excited, write that

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<v Speaker 1>thing down, have it there, up in lights, and everything

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<v Speaker 1>else will be more enjoyable because that's what you're chasing.

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