Do Not Let Monday Ruin Your Life

If you are looking to throw people a curve ball, go to work on Monday in a good mood. They key word here is ‘good’ and it is not ‘great’ mood. Great moods can be interpreted as being a ‘suck up’ or fake whereas a good mood is genuine and believable. Most people will begin to arrive and you begin to hear the Monday phrases: “weekend went fast;” “can’t believe I am back already;” or “let’s hope the weekend gets here quick enough.” It’s definitely a shame people spend five of the seven days weekly looking forward to, and talking about, the other two days. By my calculations, most employees do not enjoy 70% of their working lives. We now expect to walk in on Mondays thinking and talking about Friday, but do not take the time to give Monday a chance. Your job can’t be that bad because if it was, you should have quit by now. Therefore, if you are still walking in on Mondays, it means you haven’t found another job or you plan on being with the company for an unspecified amount of time. Rather than dragging yourself and others down, go into work in a good mood. Don’t complain or whine and don’t bring up the coming weekend. Focus on making Monday as productive and fun as possible. Who knows: other people may stop their negativity and the workplace may just be a better environment.