"Among the great dreads of life, death, taxes, and Mondays share something essential in their sense of mortal doom and inevitability. Mondays mark the end of self with a kind of precision that's almost poetic when you think about it. The boundary between the undivided and seducingly solipsistic "I" of the weekend and the salary-seeking, decidedly compartmentalized "I" of the working week, is as clear as a calendar reminder pinging at 8 a.m."
"If we dislike Mondays, I argue that it's not because they start the week-it's because they reset who we are expected to be. But we can do more than suffer through it all. Jim Davis' Garfield, after all, turned his loathing of Mondays into a cartoon empire and mountains of lasagna. Superperformers, the people around us who seem to somehow have more hours to each day than we have, do something similar by turning the dread into design."
Mondays create a clear identity shift from weekend self to work self and can feel like an inevitable dread. Preparation before the week begins generates momentum and prevents falling to autopilot habits, magnifying the impact of even optimized routines. Benjamin Franklin's daily rhythm exemplifies how reflection and intention convert effort into steady progress. Apply Pareto's 80/20 rule to start with tasks that truly move the needle for goals. Defend protected deep-work blocks to enable flow, and choreograph the transition into the week so the reset becomes deliberate design rather than passive suffering.
Read at Psychology Today
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