The Monday Blues...

The most hated day of the week....Monday, Monday, Monday! As I logged on Facebook this morning, I could not believe the amount of status updates pertaining to: "Oh Mondays, I hate you!" It's no surprise that we have such hatred for Monday's because it only means the weekend is over and we are back to our work week. Since I was a little overwhelmed by these hating on Monday statuses, I decided to look up what other reasons there are for hating Monday so much!

I came across an article, "Mondays Are More Depressing Than We Thought," by The Huffington Post. Let me start off with this quote in the article: "According to researchers, Monday mornings are so depressing that, on average, we don't crack our first smile until 11:16 a.m., reports The Telegraph." (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/mondays-are-more-depressing_n_908491.html) That means by the time you finish reading my post this morning, you should have cracked that first smile or at least I hope you did! Everyone has their bad days and yes, Monday seems to be the biggest downfall to the week, you just have to pick yourself up and do something you love! It could be treating yourself to a nice lunch or buying yourself something you have wanted for some time now, just try to be optimistic and look forward to the weekend that lies ahead!

I feel that Monday is a great day to sit down and analyze your weeks schedule and to figure out what you are going to do and what you are going to accomplish. A new week means a fresh, new start. This could help take away the depressing factor that the weekend is over, and that you can find things to keep you busy to get through the rest of the week and then have the rewarding factor of enjoying the weekend once again!

For example, you're a continuing Berkeley student, who has a term paper due in 2 weeks from now. You typically wait until the last minute to start the paper because procrastination has taken over your mind and you just assume you can finish it the weekend before. Let me ask you this though...Do you really want to spend a weekend, (keeping in mind you worked all week, and went to school all week), working on a paper that may lack a lot of information because you haven't had the time to do ALL of the research? I didn't think so! Here is a simple solution...You are probably going home with either a reading assignment or some piece of homework to complete for your next class. After completing that assignment, take a half hour or even an hour if you can, to do some of the research and lay out an outline that will make sure you hit every point you need to hit within your paper. If you do a little bit each and every day, it will make writing your paper that much easier. At least the research will be done, and all you need to do is think out how you want to phrase the information you have and make it a very appealing, yet effective paper.

There is a method to my madness here, but you have to be willing to tackle this task and get things done! Instead of hating Monday even more after spending a weekend working on a last minute paper, you will find Monday to be rewarding because you would have finished the assignment and can again, set new goals for the week!

With all that said HAPPY MONDAY and think about what you want to do this week to make the weekend come even faster and be even more enjoyable!