Happiful January 2020
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Mondays<br />
How to love<br />
The start of a new week can feel overwhelming – but it doesn’t have to be. Here we look at<br />
how you can embrace Mondays, and take back control of the days ahead<br />
Writing | Kat Nicholls<br />
Illustrating | Rosan Magar<br />
We’ve all been there,<br />
right? You’ve enjoyed a<br />
relaxing weekend and<br />
are cosying up in bed,<br />
ready for sleep... then it hits you. It’s<br />
Monday tomorrow. Your to-do list<br />
for the week pops into your head,<br />
and you start to feel stressed about<br />
everything that needs to get done.<br />
Cue a sleepless night, and you<br />
feeling exhausted when your alarm<br />
rings. Even if you love your job,<br />
Mondays can feel hard. In fact, a<br />
study carried out by consultancy<br />
Mercer, found that workers are<br />
more likely to take time off or be ill<br />
at the start of the week, with 35%<br />
of all sick days falling on a Monday.<br />
So, how can we reframe our<br />
thinking around Mondays and<br />
break the cycle? Life coach Jessica<br />
Goodchild says it’s time for us to<br />
recognise what our ‘story’ about<br />
Mondays is, and change it.<br />
“Being aware of how you’re<br />
thinking can highlight the issue,<br />
and help you to put a plan into
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