Tell Me Why I Don’t Like Mondays

I believe that a career is a terrible thing to waste.  So I ask:

How Do You Feel About Mondays?

Have you ever found yourself dreading the sound of your alarm clock on Monday morning?  How did you feel last Monday?  Did you “want to shoot the whole day down“?

If your alarm clock is waking you from dreams of better things and places, that’s OK.  That kind of dreaming is vital.  It’s what keeps us going.  I’m really asking:

Do you dread the thought of returning to work at the start of each week?

Has your job become a nightmare?

Why People Don’t Like Mondays

If you’re in the working world, it’s one of two reasons.  Or both.

1. You’re being mismanaged.
2. You’re in the wrong job.

Three Challenges for Leaders

1. Do you approach Mondays with a negative mindset?  If so, how are your followers affected?
2. How many people on your team genuinely don’t like Mondays?  How can you detect this?
3. Can you identify which of the two reasons apply and how you should address them?

A career IS a terrible thing to waste.  If you or your people are dreading Monday’s aren’t you obligated to find a remedy?  Life is too short to spend your working hours in a living nightmare.

Vision Without Action is a Daydream.  Action without Vision is a Nightmare.  – Japanese Proverb

How Happy are You?

Our business partner for talent assessments, TTI Success Insights created a 15 question Workplace Happiness Survey to measure your degree of happiness with your job.   How will you score?  Download the PDF for the Job Happiness Survey.

 Monday Music

If this piece has you longing to hear the the title song for this blog, I’m happy to help with that too.