No more Monday Blue at work

Hate Monday blue on every Sunday night? You really don’t need it, and it’s not that okay just because everyone have it. Even if you have few more years before you retired, living with Monday blue, or to be more specific, dislike working is definitely not something encouraging. What’s more if you have 20 or 30 more years to work for?

Monday blue is not necessary, really. Despite having unlimited Monday blue, look at the bright side because there are numerous methods to eliminate Monday blue.

Here’s simple tips with little efforts for relieving yourself from suffering from monday blue during the weekend and on Monday.

1. Throw all your worries and frustration down the drain on Friday night

Don’t bring whatever unhappiness and dissatisfaction you had on the week to the coming weekend. Go to the cafe, bar, the park, party, library, or anywhere to relax and tell yourself that you had gone through a busy working weeks so you deserve a relaxing and good weekend, and get yourself prepare for your weekend plan.

2. Prepare a complete weekend plan

Make it much more complete than your usual work plan. There are only Saturday and Sunday available, and it’s a disaster to waste them and feel sad for not doing anything you want during the weekend at a Sunday night.

During the weekend, try to achieve and complete the to-do list in your plan as much as you could.

The consequences of without any weekend plan at all put yourself at the risk of thinking what to do during the weekend and could waste few hours up to more than half a day! Come on, you only have two days to do whatever non-working stuff before you gotta get into a 5 continuous busy working days again.

3. Avoid any work related stuff on Sunday night

If you have unfinished work, finish them before 6pm or leave it for tomorrow. Sunday night is the time where you need to relax yourself to the max and leave yourself no chance of regrets on insufficient time for your personal activities before the start of a busy working day.

4. Get a luxury breakfast on Monday morning

It’s not just the issue that the elder repeatedly nagging for ages: breakfast is good for your health. A good breakfast also contribute to starting your day with something special and joyful.

For the Monday morning, reward yourself with special and “luxury” breakfast. It does not need to be expensive, just special enough that you feel great and getting yourself into the mood of humming some songs without realizing it yourself.

5. Spend little time for work planning and management on weekend

Bear in mind that I’m talking about work “planning and management”, not finishing up all your work on weekend.

While it’s alright to spend some time on working stuff on weekend, the main thing about weekend is to spend time to fulfill your personal life satisfaction, hanging out with friends to relax, and do any activity that boost your happiness and life satisfaction.

When you have a proper work planning and personal target on what you want to do in the coming week, you will be more prepare for that week and feel much less intense and uncertain

6. Get into office earlier than usual

So that you can start doing your work earlier and in the end of the day, you are able to complete more than other usual day….. NO! Getting into the office earlier when there isn’t much people allow you to enter the office when everything is quiet and peaceful to feel less intense and calm.

Start your day by doing something relaxing, Facebook, read a book, talk with colleagues and anything that is non-work related instead of starting your work right away. It's the same concept for having a better breakfast in the morning: to start your day with something enjoyable and satisfying.

The earlier you get into the office, the more time you have for your peaceful personal time and the higher chance that no one will be there to work and spread the negative working atmosphere. If you enter the office later and looking at your colleagues serious working facial expression, you will eventually felt like your working mood had started and there is no time to relax.

Also, waking up earlier is a good habit. Provided that you sleep early too. In the end, it's for the better health improvement and better working life.