Today I’ve got a case of the Mondays. Some Mondays have to be lived to be believed. I have a healthy dread of Mondays, and if I could avoid them altogether, believe me I would. This dread coupled with my superstition due to my Irish ancestry is probably why my Mondays are usually a disaster. Isn’t it true that we attract what we expect?

Logically I cannot think why I detest Mondays so much. It is really just another day of the week. Perhaps it is that Monday is usually my least productive day. I find it hard to get hold of clients on Mondays (no surprise there), I start my morning facing an email inbox running towards three digits of which most of the mails are spam and the staff…. Let’s not even go there.

So after endless searching, I found a blog on 5 ways to defeat the Monday blues – here are my thoughts on these:

1. Have Something to Look Forward to on Monday Nights

I don’t know about this one – we usually work in the evenings, and I certainly don’t see us taking off a MONDAY evening of all evenings. Going to pass on this one.

2. Prepare Monday’s Work on Friday

This one makes absolutely no sense to me at all, specifically in our line of work. My Monday work sort of arrives on a Monday, with one crisis after the other one. It would have been nice to be prepared for these disasters, but short of owning a crystal ball and believing it works…. nah

3. Socialise

No idea what this has to do with Mondays. I socialise enough on Mondays anyway – while sorting out one looming disaster after another.

4. Reconceptualize Mondays

Yeah – been there, got the T-shirt. This one is sort of mind over matter and believe me – I have tried. Perhaps my mind is not strong enough. Or perhaps I have given in to the Pavlovian conditioning of Monday expectations.

5. Accept It

This is where I am starting to think the person who thought up these 5 ways to “defeat” the Monday blues is perhaps a tad IQ-challenged. What else is there to do but to accept Mondays? They’re certainly not going to go away.

Do let me know if any of you have come up with an effective, pain-free, stress-free (please!) way to deal with Mondays.