What are the Monday Tips you should try out?
We often take it as a given the fact that at some point that on Sundays, a sense of anxiety and gloom will settle in us as we ponder about the day ahead – Monday! So what’s I about Mondays anyways? Even if we love our jobs so much and our colleagues – we still dread the day to come. Crazy, right? Well, research conducted on Monday blues gives us different interesting information – from the theory that it isn’t Mondays we are reacting to but change as we step into the workweek, to the fact that people’s moods aren’t any lower on Monday compared to other days – this is according to the New York Times.
Interestingly, one of the best ways to prepare for a great Monday is to give yourself awesome weekends that restore and rejuvenate you. All you need is some planning and organizing, and you’ll be off to a great Monday, and it will also increase your productivity in the workplace. But here are some tips to help guide you through this:
- Use Friday to Prepare for Monday
It would help if you learned to use your Friday afternoon to prepare for Monday. TGIF shouldn’t only be for parties. There are 60+ hours between Friday afternoon and Monday morning. To hit the ground rung on Monday, start by writing yourself a Monday to-do list that details where you stopped on a task and the next one (task). Next, write a note detailing what you were working on and what was going well, what happy to accomplish, and what you want to go back and redo.
- Get ahead with the weekends.
Ambitious professionals are known to use their weekends to further their careers, ongoing projects, and businesses. Being less structured, the weekend is the perfect time to do some creative thinking, problem-solving, and brainstorming. Also, not to disturb your work-life balance, but if you left work on Friday with a load of work choking you, tucking in some hours of work on an uninterrupted weekend might be the perfect recipe you need to feel good about starting your workweek.
- Make use of your Sundays.
Isn’t it odd that we can spend so much time on Sundays worrying about Monday? So, what are the different ways to make use of your Sunday evenings properly:
- Please spend a few hours planning your Monday: For some of us, diving into our workweek on Sunday evening is a very productive use of our time. First, however, you have to give yourself a leg up on all things that meet you on Monday morning for leaders and managers.
- Don’t give in to the Monday narrative.
If Blue Mondays are mythical, then try this: pretend to love Mondays. Then, when the anxiety starts to creep in on Sundays, all you have to do is create a new and positive narrative for yourself about Mondays. Because when you look at it, Mondays are just like every other day of the week, where anything can happen.
