Mondays are my worst best days

Posted on August 11, 2008
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I used to hate Mondays. After a long weekend of house work, yard work, partying, etc, it was really hard to get in the mood to go to work. Week days were for work, and weekends were for having fun and doing projects around the yard and in the house. The problem was, all the “relaxing” I was doing on the weekends left me too tired to put in an “optimal appearance” on Monday mornings.
Interestingly, in Exodus 20:8 – 1, the Bible has something to say about this very subject:

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.
11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Since Mondays were such a drag on the rest of the week for me, I decided to start applying this principle to my life. I don’t work on Sundays any more, at all. No Open Houses. No preparing mailers to send out. If I have a big home project to do on a weekend, it gets finished on Saturday or it gets finished the following week. I don’t even like driving home from vacation on Sundays – it’s too much like work, so we drive home on Saturday. I might do a little yard work, but only a little, and only because I find it relaxing.

I’ve found that since I started treating Sunday as an actual Day of Rest, Mondays are the most productive day of the week for me. Instead of showing almost late for work with a foggy head, I show up on time with a clear head. In fact, I like to show up an hour early to prepare for the coming week. My stress level is down, not just on Mondays but all week long.

I believe this principle applies to anyone, whether you worship the God of the Bible, a different god, or no god at all. Try setting aside your Sundays as a day of rest and see how it affects your productivity, your mental clarity, your overall well being.

Cheers,
Ken

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