10/27/2025

Making the Most out of Mondays

Start the week with rhythm versus resistance

Among the great dreads of life, death, taxes and Mondays share something essential in their sense of mortal doom and inevitability.

Mondays mark the end of self with a kind of precision that’s almost poetic when you think about it. The boundary between the undivided and seducingly solipsistic "I" of the weekend and the salary-seeking, decidedly compartmentalized "I" of the working week, is as clear as a calendar reminder pinging at 8 a.m.

If we dislike Mondays, I argue that it's not because they start the week—it's because they reset who we are expected to be. But we can do more than suffer through it all. Jim Davis' Garfield, after all, turned his loathing of Mondays into a cartoon empire and mountains of lasagna.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Psychology Today.