Nothing better than a good Monday… Cheer up!!

Its Monday again folks!! Cheer up and let us have a great day today, no matter what we are going through. Rain or shine, we can make Monday a good day if not great. C’mon!!

I am not making this up just to get attention or anything. I do like Monday. I know some people really do not like Mondays because of so many factors – loads of work, one of them. For ages, I’ve heard people say bad things about Mondays, including me at one point of my life – ‘Monday sucks’, ‘I hate Monday’ are two famous ones.

Come to think of it, Monday is actually just Monday. Yea, you heard me right. Monday it’s just a day of the week. The emotions behind it are made by us humans. Good or bad, great or sour Mondays are made by us. So, IMHO, if we made it happen e.g. bad monday, then we can undo the ‘bad’ make it ‘good’ too, right?

As I said before, I am not making this up. I, too, have despised Mondays before. Poor Monday, it do nothing but people call them ‘bad’, ‘sucks’, ’despicable’, ‘disgusting’, ‘loathing’ etc. There can be many factors people do not like Mondays. One of them is perhaps they hated their job or the people in their office. So, sometimes you have to drag yourself going to work. Well, honestly, this situation happened to me. I dreaded and loathed Mondays and rejoiced when it’s Friday.

I remember one of Datuk Dr. Fazilah Kamsah’s (favourite motivational guru) advice. It’s something like this - We must fill in our minds and thoughts with positive things, thoughts and words etc. Especially like we want to do something like going for a competition. If we say like ‘I won’t be able to do it’ or ‘the other competitor is great’, then we are filling our minds with negative things. We were already ‘lost’ before even starting the competition.

Similarly for a great day like Monday. If you fill your thoughts with words like ‘I hate…’, ‘it sucks..’, ‘bloody hell..’, etc, then you yourselves ‘made’ Monday bad, suck, bloody (LOL).

I understand, due to many factors, you may not say ‘I LOVE MONDAY!’ out loud just like that. But just try to say simple positive things on Mondays like ‘it’s a great day today’. ‘I will be okay today’, ‘things will be all right’ etc. whatever it is, it should be positive. I am very sure it will make a difference a little bit, if not much. Who knows, your Monday will turn out to be great, if not good. There’s no harm doing that, I believe.

I also have another view on why people hated Mondays – it’s been hyped up or ‘commercialised’. Hence, the famous sentence ‘IHM – I hate Monday!’. So, because of that, even if you actually do not have any issue about Mondays, you try to ‘make an issue about it or try to make Monday as bad as you can, without realising it perhaps, so as to be ‘in consistent with IHM-kinda thing’.

Why not try to make a difference in your Monday-life, ‘little by little, every Mondays’ by filling your thoughts and minds with positive things – starting today!

Cheer up, bozzzz!!!