Work It!
Five Simple Steps to Loving Monday Mornings
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Prologue How do you feel about Monday morning? Do you dread it? When does the dread start? Monday morning? Sunday night? You are not alone. Lots of people dread Monday morning. That’s where all the humorous pictures of cats holding on with the tips of their claws with tag lines saying “Is it Monday already??” come from. It doesn’t have to be that way. I’m going to start off with a little blasphemy. In my career as a training facilitator and business coach, people think of me as a work/life balance expert. What does that mean, exactly? That you have work and life? That when you aren’t at work, you’re alive, and not alive at work? Does it mean that real life happens only outside the cubicle? Eight hours a day, five days a week, fifty weeks a year is a lot of lifelessness. You want to know a secret? There is no work/life balance. There’s just life! Your life, this life, your only life. It’s all life. And when Monday morning comes around and you’re dreading going to work, you’re dreading life, your life. People spend an average of 2000 hours a year at work and you’re dreading it? Why not work it! Love it! Live it! The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Missionary Did you know that the risk for heart attack increases on Monday mornings? The stress hormone called cortisol peaks early in the day. When this happens, plaque in the arteries can rupture and block the flow of blood to the heart. If you’re dreading going to work, you may be experiencing a rise in blood pressure and an increased heart rate too. Now that’s a perfect recipe for a Monday morning heart attack.[1] The good news is that it just does not have to be like that. “I look forward to Monday,” says Sarah Risher, a business consultant. “Sure, I enjoy having time off, sleeping late on weekends, spending time with my family, but I enjoy my job so much, I think ‘Oh, good, I get to go to work too.’” “To me, Monday mornings are a fresh start,” says Rani Pooran, Senior Manager of Global Operations at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Imagine feeling like that. Imagine how your life be would be different if you saw Monday mornings as a fresh start to look forward to! You can have such a great work life that you actually welcome Monday morning. Loving work is a skill. Anyone can create a work life they love living.
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If you find yourself dreading Monday mornings, then it’s time to create a work life that you’ll enjoy living. Sharon Hoyle Weber, a leading corporate trainer, walks you through a five-step process that will motivate you to succeed on the job. The five steps are waking up, showing up, shaking it up, speaking up, and following up. As you focus on each step, you’ll learn how to: determine the work environment that you thrive in the most; contribute more to the success of your company; appreciate the power of being positive; take responsibility for your professional development; communicate with others in a way they’ll truly embrace; identify accomplishments before setting new goals. By following the five steps, you’ll become more engaged and empowered, and you’ll find yourself rising up the ranks faster than you ever imagined. Transform Monday mornings into the time you look forward to most with the life-changing advice in Work It!
About the Author
Sharon Hoyle Weber is a corporate trainer, speaker, and author. Through her experience with a variety of companies, she has discovered five steps that will leave you loving going to work—and not just on Fridays. She’s also the author to award winning, Hot in the Pot: A Survival Guide for the REAL YOU in the Corporate World.