Your Sunday afternoons start filling you with anxiety, sadness and fatigue. As the day progresses, you feel heavier and stressed. It affects your mood negatively and that reflects in your behaviour with loved ones at home. It’s a sign that you are not prepared to start your work week and you are experiencing “Monday Blues”.
I personally have gone through
many extremely stressful Sundays in the past. Monday mornings, the first thought would be about taking the day off. Even if you do that it’s not much of a help and not practical.
The impact of Monday blues can be significant on job performance and overall wellbeing.
Taking enough sleep, exercise, yoga are recommended to handle the blues and anxiety. However, I would like to share one particular practical tip that has helped me immensely:
Planning Fridays: Now I plan my next Monday on the previous Friday. I keep Mondays lighter in terms of work and engagements. As much as possible, I keep most significant/difficult tasks between Tuesdays and Thursdays. Strangely and psychologically, I don’t get the same dreaded feeling on Mondays for the work planned on Tuesdays, and rest of the week.
The notion that my Mondays are not significantly stressful, keeps my mind calmer over weekends and I enjoy them to the fullest, get re-energised and start my workweek more positively.
Hope it’s helpful for those who have already started feeling blues for tomorrow. 😊
Use Planning Fridays to fight Monday Blues
