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It’s the toughest and most dangerous day of the week – believe me! After a weekend of lazing and frolic, why is it so miserable to step out of the house on Monday morning?
As Bob Geldof once said : "Tell me why I don’t like Mondays, tell me why I don’t like Mondays. I wanna shoo-oo-ooo-ooot the whole day down". There we are, cruising happily through the weekend doing what we wnt, wearing anything we like and answering to n body. We go to sleep on Sunday night and when the alarm goes off the next morning, our freedom is snatched away at the strains and the pains of working week hit us square in the face like a punch.
No wonder Monday is the most dangerous morning of the week. You are more likely to have a heart attack on a Monday than on any other day; you’re also more likely to have a work-related accident on Monday than on any other weekday morning. We wish we had a way to make Mondays more fun than rushing through mammoth crowds or jostling in the packed trains and tolerating jarring horns to reach the workplace where everything is nowhere close to comfort. Everyone looks like they’ve had their kidneys removed. We thought about it and here’s a cool survival guide to help you sail smoothly through the Monday morning misery. Some of the stuff you and me already know, so why not compile. Consider it!
How to get out of bed :
Don’t lose the rhythm
For many people, the thing that make Monday morning so tough is their overwhelming sense of grogginess. They smack the alarm three times, spend ten extra minutes in the shower, drink an extra cup of coffee – but still feel lousy as ever. Why do we feel so lazy and sleepy on Monday mornings, even though most of us get more than enough sleep at the weekends ? The answer probably lies in the question. On weekends, most people tend to stay up late at night and sleep late in the morning than they do during the week. The body clock is disturbed and hence the drowsiness. The reason is obvious and so is the situation. Avoid sleeping during weekends unless you love the feeling of being a ‘potato’ on Monday.
Don’t overwork on Saturday and Sunday
Some people think that they can beat the Monday blues by working straight through the weekend – the equivalent of drinking through a hangover. Not a good idea. By the time you have reached Saturday, your body will start demanding rest. Even if you cannot oblige, you can definitely slow down the pace so that on Monday it is once again rejuvenated to rake on the week headlong.
Avoid dumping spicy meals on Sunday
In addition to a messed up body clock, another cause of Monday-morning drowsiness is diet. Spicy meals, for example, have been found to disturb sleep, in part because they raise body temperature during the first part of the sleep cycle. Avoid them. Meat and dairy products are ideal to snooze off.
Start Monday mornings with optimism
The woeful morning is exacerbated by the mad-rushing which most of us do. So get up an hour earlier and ease into the day by listening to music or reading the paper. A morning jog or any other refreshing activity will definitely help to brush away the lethargic feeling.
How to get to office without becoming a roadkill
This piece of information may shock you but most office-going people meet with nasty road-accidents on Monday mornings. Two of my friends Macarnd and Rishabh are glaring examples. You’re more likely to drive your car into a ditch on Monday, no doubt adding to the stress of you commuting, why don’t we discuss this too. so…
Eat a happy meal before you leave home.
If you leave without breakfast you are giving a red carpet invitation to trouble. Munch a healthy breakfast before heading for work . You don’t eat it while watching the news. Hearing all those depressing stories is a sure way to aggravate your foul mood. Keep in mind that the world has never been a paradise.
Keep the phone at bay.
If you think you can get a headstart by making a few calls from the car using the mobile while driving to the office. ? Bad Idea. We all know and have probably even seen how drivers with cellular phones are more likely to cause mayhem by being inattentive, driving at an unsafe speed or on the wrong side of the road striking a foxed object, overturning their vehicles or running off the road. Please, don’t go through all this on an already disturbing Monday morning.
The message is loud and clear. It is natural and obvious to feel lousy on Monday but it is in your hands whether you want to turn it into the sunniest day of the week or your d-day!
(With inputs from Dr. M.C Wasta (M.D) – Psychotherapy. Shekhar Chandran.
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