Blue Oyster
"how to Handle Blue Mondays"
How to Handle Blue Mondays
by Perry Wilbur
A major cause of so-called depressing Mondays is simply weariness. Staying up to all hours all weekend is bound to result in one tired human worker on Monday morning. Many workers just try to do too much in one short weekend. The latest report figures say that the first few Mondays, in January, is when the suicide rate is usually the highest. The holidays are over, bills are coming in, and that's when the stress can really get to people.
Weekend trips are alright, providing you don't travel too far. GIve yourself enough time to get back home without breaking your neck or having an accident. To work effectively and productively all week, your body needs to be rested and refreshed to face the work load every new Monday.
There are definite ways to be prepared for Mondays, considered by most to be the hardest day of the entire week. The first thing you can do is simply to recognize each Monday as a fresh start offering new potential and opportunities. Many successful people are even eager and enthusiastic about starting back to work on Mondays. They know from experience that if they can get some good work done that first rough day, the encouragement and keen sense of achievement will carry them through the rest of the week.
Specific Ways to
Handle Mondays
One of the best ways to handle tough Mondays is to sit down with yourself and actually list the many good things about work itself. Yes, there are some. "Blessed is he (or she) who has found their work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose, he has found it, and will follow it." So wrote Thomas Carlyle. He said it well.
Keep also in mind the fact that practically everyone at one time or another faces, or is caught up in, depressing Mondays. It's how you handle them that counts. The point to remember is that low feelings and negative thoughts about Mondays can be faced head on and overcome. It will take some discipline at first, but keep resisting depressing thoughts concerning Mondays and watch howyour attitude can and will change. Reading some uplifting or inspirational material on your weekends is a good idea, too. It can help to keep you thinking positive.
The truth is that no two Mondays are really ever alike. A great many workers don't eat lunch at the same place every day. They look for variety, and you can do the same. If you drive or go to work the same way all the time, why not try a different route for a week or so? Look for ways to get more variety in your week's routine, and you'll enjoy your working years much more.
Still another positive way to combat depressing Mondays is to determine in your mind, before Monday even arrives, that it's going to be a good day. Visualize yourself on the way to work feeling happy, positive, and cheerful. See yourself doing your work well and with good, productive results. Keep this kind of thinking going, and you'll be amazed at how few depressing Mondays you will have.
Role Playing
Can Help
You can also use the helpful device of role playing. Imagine what you would do if you had no job at all. Think how worried and upset you would be without your work. Millions are unemployed today because of the economy situation, loss of their job, being forced to move elsewhere, or whatever. These people cannot find work, even though they have tried very hard to do so.. Many of them have too much pride to go on unemployment. They want to work. Your job no doubt pays your bills and supports you. The idea then is to appreciate what you now have. Thinking this way puts your entire employment picture in a new light.
Some people have lived and live today for their work alone. "My destiny is solitude, and my life is work," said RIchard Wagner, the great German composer.
Remember. It's your life that is going by, so you might as well do your best to get the most out of each and every day of your work. Henry Ward Beecher, the famous preacher, said something worth noting on this point: "When God wanted sponges and oysters, he made them, and put one on a rock, and the other in the mud. When God made man, he did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; He made him with feet, and hands, and head, and heart, and vital blood, and place to use them, and said to him, 'Go, work.'"
Make Monday one of your best days of the week. For like the rest, they are all fleeting.
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About the Author
Perry Wilbur is a several decades professional writer-author with thousands of published credits, 30 published books, five national bestsellers, one MEGA LEVEL bestseller in copies sold, one
sold and produced television script (shown on the tube to more than 30 million viewers). He lives in Florida...and, in
"looking ahead," hopes he can continue writing once "on the other side" in the Afterlife. He believes STRONGLY in an Afterlife and has experienced proof of it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
He completed a novel not long ago and expects to sell it and perhaps
even see it on the big screen.
VISIT: http://perry'sblog.vox.com
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