Speaker 1: Get everyone's sam here and welcome to another motivational moment.
Speaker 1: This is a perfect one for a Monday. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: you have a good Monday, you have a good week.
Speaker 1: I absolutely believe that. But leading it to chance or
Speaker 1: just hoping things turn around all on their own probably
Speaker 1: isn't the best way to go about it. So there's
Speaker 1: three things I like to do on a Monday, the
Speaker 1: three piece, Pause, prepare, and pomp up. All right, we're
Speaker 1: going to get into that. So pause. It might sound
Speaker 1: like a strange thing to do because obviously the week
Speaker 1: takes off, but that's the whole point. How quickly does
Speaker 1: it go from zero to one hundred when Monday comes?
Speaker 1: You know, you open up your calendar, your seat. It's
Speaker 1: full of appointments and meetings and drop offs, and it
Speaker 1: can just get very chaotic and very overwhelming very quickly.
Speaker 1: So instead of jumping on the treadmill at twenty kilometers
Speaker 1: an hour, why don't we take a minute to pause?
Speaker 1: First thing on a Monday. Now, that might be meditation.
Speaker 1: It might be going for a nice quiet walk. It
Speaker 1: might be doing some gentle stretches. It might be simply
Speaker 1: walking outside getting some daylight, letting that sun hit you
Speaker 1: in the face, and just spending a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: taking some big, deep breaths. But it's all about you
Speaker 1: being in control. Don't get thrown onto that treadmill like
Speaker 1: you don't have control over it. Take a minute to
Speaker 1: pause and prove to yourself that you are going to
Speaker 1: control the pace of your week, not the other way around.
Speaker 1: Then there's prepare And I like to write things down.
Speaker 1: It's been proven that it helps us compartmentalize, and it
Speaker 1: helps us deal with things by breaking them down into
Speaker 1: constituent parts. Often when we just go boom, look at
Speaker 1: this week. Oh my god, where do I start. It's Monday,
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday. Look my way. It's so crazy. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm going to do, and I do this.
Speaker 1: I've experienced this, I've been a victim of this. But
Speaker 1: if I write things down, Okay, this is what my
Speaker 1: week actually looks like, This is what my calendar actually
Speaker 1: looks like. Here are my priorities. I even like to
Speaker 1: look at where are my gaps where I'm going to
Speaker 1: be able to give myself some love? And I like
Speaker 1: to write that down. I'm going to go for a
Speaker 1: walk there, I'm going to get a haircut there. I'm
Speaker 1: going to get a massage there. Whatever. It might be
Speaker 1: just a little bit of me time to keep the
Speaker 1: balance palatable, which leads to the next one, which is
Speaker 1: pump up. You're going to take it one step further.
Speaker 1: You're going to actually put something in there that is
Speaker 1: going to excite you that he is going to fill
Speaker 1: up your cup. Now, you don't have to do this
Speaker 1: on a Monday necessarily, but at some stage early in
Speaker 1: the week, you're going to plan something that's going to
Speaker 1: occur before Sunday night hits that you're looking forward to.
Speaker 1: It might be a movie that you've been waiting to
Speaker 1: see for a long time. It might be book yourself
Speaker 1: into a restaurant, it might be catch up with a friend.
Speaker 1: Because if we have nothing to look forward to, all
Speaker 1: of the other have to do tasks can become a
Speaker 1: real grind. Whereas if you are doing those because it's
Speaker 1: a means to an end, as you are moving towards
Speaker 1: something that you're genuinely looking forward to, every single one
Speaker 1: of those things is going to become a little bit easier.
Speaker 1: So I think it's really important to not just live
Speaker 1: day to day, you know, to not just wake up
Speaker 1: and then automatically put yourself in a bad mood or
Speaker 1: on the back foot, or in a feeling of stress
Speaker 1: and anxiety because you've sort of stuck your head in
Speaker 1: the sand and I don't want to look at tomorrow
Speaker 1: because I know it's busy, know what's coming. Give yourself
Speaker 1: time to deal with it, give yourself space to deal
Speaker 1: with it. And it's like anything, you've got to remind
Speaker 1: yourself if I say no to something, the world's not
Speaker 1: going to end if I cancel something or postpone something,
Speaker 1: because it's important to me to give myself a little
Speaker 1: bit of space. And I feel like this week is
Speaker 1: totally out of balance. That's okay, people will understand the
Speaker 1: world wig and end. It's really important that you manage
Speaker 1: the kilt of your stress levels, your overwhelmed levels, and
Speaker 1: your busyness levels. You know what your task is going
Speaker 1: to be this week. We're going to beat those Monday
Speaker 1: blues by you doing the three piece. And if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this a little bit later in the week,
Speaker 1: you can start it next week. Pee pause first thing
Speaker 1: in the morning. Second, pe prepare, look at your calendar,
Speaker 1: put some spots in there for you but get yourself organized,
Speaker 1: and then pump yourself up, get yourself excited, write that
Speaker 1: thing down, have it there, up in lights, and everything
Speaker 1: else will be more enjoyable because that's what you're chasing.
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