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Speaker 2: Is it just me or our Monday's just a little
Speaker 2: bit harder to get going? Is it just me? Or
Speaker 2: is it Monday mornings that you wake up and you
Speaker 2: just start like, man, it's Monday. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 2: you like your job or not. It's just something about
Speaker 2: Monday that just drags. Maybe it's because you had a
Speaker 2: sports field weekend where you were watching the college semi
Speaker 2: finals and bled into the NFL playoffs. Maybe it's just
Speaker 2: because you had a weekend to recharge and refresh, but
Speaker 2: you didn't quite recharge and that has Monday dragging a
Speaker 2: bit for you. The famous cartoon cat Garfield always had
Speaker 2: his I Hate Mondays as part of his cartoon stick.
Speaker 2: His comic strip was always popular and as I Hate
Speaker 2: Monday's line became iconic because it spoke to so many
Speaker 2: people who felt the same way about this day of
Speaker 2: the week as Garfield did. It reflects the start of
Speaker 2: the work week for most people. Yes, I understand they
Speaker 2: are people that have jobs that are not Monday through Friday,
Speaker 2: and they may not be Monday quite the same way
Speaker 2: that those Monday through Friday workers do. But there's still
Speaker 2: a stigma against Mondays. I myself used to hate Mondays
Speaker 2: when I was working what was a traditional Monday through
Speaker 2: Friday job. Now I still go a little bit slower
Speaker 2: on Mondays because things. Even though you transition to different
Speaker 2: positions and different jobs or whatnot, and maybe you're not
Speaker 2: confined to Monday through Friday anymore, but there's still that
Speaker 2: lingering feeling of what Monday has always represented for you.
Speaker 2: There's still that lingering thought that, man, I just don't
Speaker 2: want to get going on a Monday. But here's the thing,
Speaker 2: Mondays are what we make of it. And I'll be
Speaker 2: honest with you, Monday it's not going to be that
Speaker 2: different from Tuesday. It's not going to be that different
Speaker 2: from Wednesday. It's not going to be that different from
Speaker 2: Thursday or Friday. For me now, on my new chosen profession,
Speaker 2: Tuesdays and Fridays are probably a little bit more hectic
Speaker 2: because those are our deadline days. It's not terrible, it's
Speaker 2: not anything to panic about, but those are her deadline days.
Speaker 2: So those are the days that we seem to put
Speaker 2: a little bit more hard work in. Not saying we
Speaker 2: don't work hard on every day, because we do. I
Speaker 2: mean there's stories to chase every day of the week,
Speaker 2: but sometimes you can hit. You get to that deadline
Speaker 2: day and maybe it's been slow news building up and
Speaker 2: everything breaks that morning, or maybe everything you've gotten ready
Speaker 2: for now has to get bumped because there's a story
Speaker 2: that just hit that morning and you got to try
Speaker 2: to chase it before that magical deadline that everything has
Speaker 2: to be in by now. Personally, I enjoy it. I
Speaker 2: like the deadline push, and I like being able to
Speaker 2: chase down the stories I tend to I might be
Speaker 2: a sick oh and the fact that I like trying
Speaker 2: to work against the clock. But again, going back to
Speaker 2: the subject of Monday, since today is a Monday, maybe
Speaker 2: my challenge to you is when you look around and
Speaker 2: you look out and say, you know what, this is
Speaker 2: just another day. I don't have to hate it. I
Speaker 2: don't have to love it, but I do have to
Speaker 2: get through it. Monday is what you make of it.
Speaker 2: If you go into any day, whether it's Monday Day
Speaker 2: or Wednesday, it doesn't matter. If you go into the
Speaker 2: day already believing that it's going to be terrible just
Speaker 2: because of what day of the week it is on
Speaker 2: the calendar, you've already set yourself behind the eight ball
Speaker 2: a little bit. You've already set yourself up to have
Speaker 2: a bad day because you've convinced yourself that that's what
Speaker 2: Monday is. You have already accepted defeat, and maybe you shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Maybe you should stand up and say, you know what,
Speaker 2: this Monday is going to be the greatest day of
Speaker 2: the week. And then do that again on Tuesday, do
Speaker 2: that again on Wednesday, do that again on Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: and so on. You really don't need much help in
Speaker 2: trying to prop up the weekend as being great, of course,
Speaker 2: But if you start to change your mindset and start
Speaker 2: to try to view Monday in a different light, maybe
Speaker 2: maybe you'll actually find something about the day of the
Speaker 2: week that you'll enjoy. Maybe you'll stop always having a
Speaker 2: negative experience on a Monday, because guess what, you accepted
Speaker 2: the fact that this day of the week can be
Speaker 2: whatever you want to make it. It can be whatever
Speaker 2: you believe in your heart. It could be Monday's just
Speaker 2: a day. It's just something we look at on the calendar.
Speaker 2: It has no magical powers, it has no evil intentions. Yes,
Speaker 2: the cartoon cat hated Mondays. Yes, I have gone through
Speaker 2: my spell of waking up on a Monday and saying
Speaker 2: I hate Mondays. If you've ever worked a Monday through
Speaker 2: Friday typical eight to five job, you probably had a
Speaker 2: dislike for Mondays at some point. But my challenge to
Speaker 2: you is to try to take today and put a
Speaker 2: positive spin on it. Put a spin to where you're
Speaker 2: going to make this day the best it can be,
Speaker 2: and don't let the negativity seep in. If you do that,
Speaker 2: you can reclaim Monday. If you can do that, you
Speaker 2: can potentially move days into a better stratosphere for yourself.
Speaker 2: Attitude a lot of times defines our reality. Why don't
Speaker 2: you just go ahead and have a positive attitude about
Speaker 2: this particular Monday and all Mondays moving forward. Something tells
Speaker 2: me it's not going to stick, but let's give it
Speaker 2: a try. This has been morning coffee with the right
Speaker 2: Side and I'm your host, Jack Fairchild's and we're a
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