Monday Blues: Make it your favorite
If you are asked to choose from the sevens days of the week your favorite.... Will it be Mondays?
Most people set their calendar to have Sundays as the first day of the week, but I take mine to be Mondays. Most people will always make this sad face on Monday morning, they hate it so much that if they have their way, they would skip it. Do you love Mondays?
Mondays was not always my favorite day of the week, I hated it so much when I was a child. After enjoying the weekend, and thereafter have a good sleep on Sunday night, my mom will come to the children's room on Monday morning to end our enjoyment and remind us that it is Monday. This always gets me angry, and since I was a little child then, I couldn't do anything other than to wear a sad face till I leave for school.
Some of the unfortunate happenings on Monday morning doesn't help at all. A situation where people are rushing to work, school, and you get to spend a long time in the traffic 'Me, I will just bite my left thumb and echoed to myself..... I hate Monday morning.. This habit of hating Mondays almost became a part me while I was growing up, but I was able to fight it gradually until it came to the point where i only hated it when it's raining. Sometimes I will wish if the weekend can be extended a little bit longer, so that Monday won't show up fast. But till today that wish has not yet come true.
Mondays was also designed to be as awesome and positive as Friday evenings. So me and you should stop dreading Mondays. It should be our most favorite day of the week. What I feel makes most people hate Monday morning is their kind of job. When you don't like your job, waking up on Monday mornings will always be a problem to you. It is so normal to feel this way because the awesome and fun filled weekend is over.
Mondays shouldn't be hated, it should be the most favorite day anyone would wish for. Stay with me and I will share some few things you need to do to make your most hated day of the week your favorite.
One of the things I did that really helped me become a lover of Monday mornings was using my best song as my alarm ringtone. If you set irritating songs as your alarm tone, you will be angered each time the alarm rings. And this can cause you to hate your Mondays. Setting funny voices as your alarm tone is also good. My elder brother had this customized alarm tone in his phone, each time his alarm rings, everyone in the house will be laughing all through until he stops it. Things like this can help uplift you when you wake up on Monday mornings. So consider changing your alarm tone to something positive if you hate Monday mornings so much.
Going to bed early after an amazing Sunday even will help you a lot. You will get enough sleep during the night hour, and this also will help you to wake up early to prepare for the day. You won't have any reason to hate Mondays if follow this routine.
On Sunday evenings, make plans for the things you will do on Monday. This things should be something you love doing and will make your more productive and creative. Take great advantage of Mondays and you always be eager to step into the first day of the week.
Always strive to make Mondays a special day rather than dread it. Setting positive goals for yourself for Mondays will help see it as a very beautiful day that anyone would wish for. View Mondays on a positive side and it will become your favorite. Make your Mondays more enjoyable than your Sunday evenings. It is possible...... So stop hating it, and love it.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you had a great time here. Signing out now, I hope to see you soon. Bye
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Can you go offline for just a week?
I wonder what even prompted me to even think of this. In our today's world where the internet has had a great influence on the lives of its user, can anyone go offline for just a week without accessing any form of it? It will be so difficult to make this kind of decision, everything will seem upsidedown, like you have given up on your virtual friends on Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and the rest.
This can only be possible to those who lived 400 years earlier than us. It will never be comfortable and possible to some of us who have been so addicted to the online world. I personally have tried to go a day without knowing if the online world ever existed, but I failed on several occasions. It will be so challenging to completely unplug from the online world for a whole week. Sometimes if a prize is attached to the challenge, some people will still choose to stay online because almost everyone has one or two things to do in the online world. Asking someone to go offline for a week is like shutting them off for a whole week, some people use the internet to drive sales to their products, shop for things online, search for the latest job or scholarship programs, and some use it to get informed on the latest trends of the day. With this, it will be so impossible to go offline for a week.
I am not actually giving up on this idea of unplugging from the online world for a week, it's just a self-experiment I need to make. If it suits you, you can try it also. And after that you can tell us how you were able to overcome the urge to always go online. When I am ready to start mine, I won't hesitate to let us know. The sole reason why I want to go offline for a week is just to know how completely it feels like and how it will affect or influence my life.
I will consider going offline for a week as one of the biggest challenge. The number of important information you would have access to during this period is intermitted. If in anyway you get into such a challenge and you don't have control over the imagination of your mind, you will be forced quit. Because since you are already additive to the internet, lots of ideas will flash through your mind that you are missing a whole lot of amazing things online. Like you could search for the latest haircut, read about your role model, reply to massages on Facebook, write on read.cash, engage with your virtual friends here too, and reply to mails. There will be this feeling that you are already missing a whole lot of great stuffs, which will be so frustrating especially when you are just beginning the challenge.
Going offline for a week, a very difficult decision to make. You will feel so uncomfortable because you know you are missing relevant information that means a lot to you. I can only advice you take this kind of challenge for just a day and see what it will feel to to absent yourself form the online world for just 24 hours.
Going offline for a day or two will be of great benefit to you. Like after a day at work, the time meant for relaxing and maybe getting a good sleep, you are busy doing what I don't know with your phone. This increase stress, unplugging yourself for just a day will help reduce stress and as well help you get a good sleep and focus better on other things outside the online world. Taking up this challenge is just like asking for a day off at work, you will have all the free time to spend with your friends and family, read a book, or even get a good spot in a good park and enjoy nature without interruption.
**VERDICT**
Going offline for a week can be a very tough thing to do, especially when you look around and you see others having good time online, laughing to funny videos, reading the latest magazine. But no matter how challenging and hard it may look, it is so possible. Depending on how you see it, it will be fun and not some self-punishment. Unplugging yourself from the online world for a week will make you give more attention to things that concerns you, instead of mulling over other peoples work or action.
***What if the online world disappears the next moment, how will you cope with it. Are you prepared for it cos one day the online world might truly disappear.***
Thank you for you time and presence today. Hope to have you again soon.
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My Personality
Every new place I go, I take my time first to make people know a little about who I am. It's my first time here on the platform, and I wouldn't want to skip a day without introducing myself to the old and new members here. I stumbled on the platform this morning and I am glad I did, I see that a lot of great things is really happening here, kinda sad at the moment why I didn't discover such a beautiful an life changing platform. From the few articles I have read, I think I am making friends already. You really want to know who I am, and that's why I decided to make this article. Read along then.....
**Describe your personality**
Determination and being ambitious is what comes to mind first. I am a kind of person who hardly gives up on things until I get what I wanted. I don't settle for the less, no matter how tideous any task may seem, I am always determined to stand to the very end. Not bragging but I am a good giver, I don't keep so many things to myself, I let go of the ones I don't need any longer. Some times give out money to strangers, one of the things that brings happiness to me. Like I said earlier, I don't settle for the less I set high goals for myself and most of the time if I don't meet up, I will get mad at myself but later encourage me that I can do better next time.
**Things that makes me happy**
Almost everything makes me happy, but there are things that makes me sad as well. Not yet time to talk about the things that makes me sad. Eating my favorite meal after a long time gives me so much happiness. Spending quality time with my nuclear family makes me happy, during such moments I delete every other thing off my mind and focus on the moment. And some times I just hope we could continue till eternity. Being generous to other people makes me happy as well, especially when I help people I don't know and won't return the favor back. Happiness just means a lot of things to me, even when I accomplish a little task, it gives me a sense of happiness that truly with my own ability I have been able to achieve something.
**Things that makes me sad**
Life will always have the ups and the downs, happy moments and sad moments. I have some things that makes me sad too. Though I won't mention all of them so that I don't end up becoming sad.. hahaha.... I can be so sad and frustrated when someone I trust betrays me or take me for granted, No, I don't like such things. That's why I don't put my complete trust on people this days, cos I don't want anybody to ruin my happy moments. And another thing that makes me sad is when someone gets hurt due to my actions, even when I didn't mean to offend them. And lastly when I see people waste things especially food. Why waste the food when people are out there looking for something to eat. Some times I end up crying when I see this.
**What I am good at doing**
Hmmmmm.... Confused now of what say, but know this, I am so good at completing every task I set for myself, I am not a fan of leaving things half way. No matter what happens, I must finish it. If you have any secret to tell to someone, I am here because I am so good at keeping one. Trust me, I don't talk anyhow, so your secrets will be safe with me. Singing........ Yeah, I am good at singing, but I don't know why I have not joined my church choir yet. Wasting away the sweet voice though, but I pray God to help. I am so good at pretending until I get what I want, don't blame me for this cos I am the last born in my family. Last born pretends a lot, it's our thing.
**My favorite food**
Like I said earlier, eating my favorite meal makes me happy. So if you want me to be happy and like you, pass me a plate of a perfectly fried egg and boiled ripe plantain with a cup of hot tea. This combo is heavenly for me. I can do anything to get it because it gets me excited.
**What thing scares me the most**
The thing that scares me the most is hearing that a life snake crawled into my room....... Oh God!!! I won't get close to that room for the next three days even when the snake has be killed. I just hate the sight of snakes no matter how small it is. It scares the hell out of me.
**Do I own a pet**
No... But I dream to own one. A dog. I have this pure and genuine love for dogs. The way they're always exited when they see their owners makes me happy.
I am so tired, this is my first time writing a long article like this one. Not complaining, its been fun all this while I have spent in coming up with my introductory post. I faced less troubles with the typing and other things because I have knowledge about computer. As we rub minds after now, you will get to know more about me. I beg to sign out for now till some other time.
Thank you so much for finding time to visit my first post.
Your friend,
**SHIVAZ.**
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