In honor of Monday's everywhere I have decided to boost the self-esteem of a day that goes regularly into peoples vernacular as the most hated day of the week. Monday has no choice on its placement in the week, and I'm sure would choose to be Friday if it could. The top 10 reasons to love Monday:
10) It's the first day of your best week at work.
9) The first day of the school week, allowing your kids or yourself to get educated
8) The first day closer to the next weekend
7) The first day that you evaluate weather or not you want to find a new job
6) The first day to buy fresh flowers for your special someone
5) The first day to see a movie w/o all of the weekend crowds
4) 1/2 price tickets at Sox home games!
3) The first day to make a vow to quit a habit that's holding you back.
2) The first day to start a week out with optimism and hope fueled by the freedom of a weekend.
1) The best day to extend a fantastic weekend by playing hooky!
Now, this assumes that you don't work weekends, which I do (sometimes.) However, the point is, have you ever tried to find the positive in a negative? Have you ever considered the power of perspective. If I think Monday is going to suck, then Monday is probably going to suck. I'll admit, it wasn't easy coming up with a top 10 reasons to love Monday list, but doesn't Monday deserve it? Don't you deserve it? The only way to change our circumstances is to change our attitude and reactions to those circumstances.
Monday will always be Monday. Bosses and Employees will still come to work with attitudes and hangovers, and baggage from their lives. The only recourse you have is to change your reaction, your response, your attitude, and your actions. There is nothing that you do to make others bend to your will.
Be grateful it's Monday, if you have a job, be grateful you have a job to hate Monday's for. If you don't have a job, be grateful that you have the power to get a job - that you woke up with the opportunity to find a job, that you have all the power you need to generate the energy and hope that an employer needs. Or maybe, just maybe, the reason you don't have a job is greater than that - maybe you're supposed to be doing something amazing, maybe you're supposed to be your own boss, maybe you're supposed to be employing others. Maybe that idea that has been swimming in your mind for years is supposed to be taking root in reality.
Whatever you have today, do the best with it! If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got. Maybe that's good enough for some of you, but for most of us it means that we need to look inside and make a call to action. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.
Monday's don't deserve our wrath, they should be greeted with same enthusiasm as Friday or Wednesday, or Sunday or whatever your favorite day happens to be. Remember Monday is an idea, just like your attitude is an idea, and an idea is only as strong as the belief in the idea. Change your belief, change your life!
Be well, and have a wonderful day, unless you have other plans.
Michael
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I like Mondays because it is a fresh start for Paige and me! We get to start the week off planning what we are going to do with all of our precious time together before she's all grown up and going to school, or having a life outside of our little family. I also like Monday because Walter naps really well and occasionally we go out to visit you and YOUR family! Lastly, Monday is nice because it is my day off of running and I get to reflect on my awesomeness (as in, I am such an awesome runner that I have to have a designated day off). :)
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