Welcome to the second edition of the Monday Monster! I knew once I wrote my first Monday Monster blog post I would want to write this every week. Some days really are easier than others but Mondays just seem to be the hardest for many of us! This Monday was easier than the last, which I felt was a great improvement! It's still darker than I'd like it to be but I'm working on not letting the overcast, colder weather get me down! I started the morning with my morning meditation and visualization, making my tea, oiling up, and journaling. This little morning routine truly does help set up the day to be a positive one!
I was also listening to a wonderful full moon meditation that was focused on goals for this quarter, which had aired live last night but I felt I needed to re-listen to it all to really put forth my effort into action oriented goals.
My top three goals are below:
- Meditate and visualize what I'm achieving with my business
- Read 10 pages of Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Esther and Jerry Hicks
- Make and drink my tea with lemon essential oil (Vitality of course!)
I am the godness of nature
Top four things to bring me happiness on a Monday
- Putting on a sweet movie that I've seen a hundred times in the background, which today was Practical Magic! A Negrin family favorite! 😜 It seems I end up with it on right around the full moon, which is quite poetic if you've seen the movie!
- Starting my day with my motivational meditation/visualization and writing out affirmations
- Hanging out with my wonderful sister, her bff Erik who was visiting from NYC, our new Italian bestie Marco and our Chicago husband, Michal. Not only were we just chilling and hanging out but we played a version of Dungeon and Dragons which included me being a Sorceress Goddess of Nature which just so fits! 👑⚜⚔💃👑
- Having a crazy amount of fruits and vegetables throughout the day 😜 like celery (and peanut butter), spinach, kale, broccoli, potatoes, zucchini, onion, garlic and I think more that I'm forgetting! Some days are definitely more than others but today I just felt like having so many! 🥑🍅🍆🥒🥕🥦
What is one thing you do to beat the Monday Monster?! 👻 ❤️❤️👻
The Monday Monster 👹
Many of us, even those that really like their job have a tough time on Mondays. I was initially astounded to learn that the risk of heart attacks are 11% higher on Mondays than other days of the week, although after careful consideration this did make sense. As many of us know heart attacks are linked to stress; so that over a long period of time stressing about things like your boss that you don't like, your co-workers that annoy you to no end, or just how much email you have sitting in your inbox from over the weekend, can make a large impact on our health. I'm not saying that we can all simply have three day weekends (which would then turn Tuesdays into Mondays anyway 😜) but maybe we can all try to beat the Monday Monster 👺 together!
I was sitting in my beautiful new home office/sun room and finding myself losing the battle with my Monday Monster and then a song came on, Meghan Trainor's No Excuses, and I realized I couldn't allow that to happen! I couldn't let Monday be the excuse for not feeling so happy or wallowing in the darkness that can sometimes sneak up on me. So I slapped on a cute outfit, oiled up, grabbed my computer and headed out to work outside at a bar. (yes a bar that has wifi and other people on computers, something I'm finding very common in Wicker Park!)
We don't always know what life holds for us but we can do our best to find the little things in life that bring you joy, and then do more of those!! ❤️❤️
Top four things to bring me happiness on a Monday
Top four things to bring me happiness on a Monday
- Get to spin class! or some other form of exercise 😊
- Cook a veggie heavy meal 🥑🍅🍆🥒🥕🥦
- Listen to uplifting podcasts and music (each day is different with which one I choose, or sometimes I do both!
- Oil up! sometimes it's Joy, or Frankincense or Believe or today for whatever reason it was Palmarosa!
What is one thing you do to beat the Monday Monster?! 👻 ❤️❤️👻
