Why Monday is the Toughest Day to Work from Home
5 Ways to Motivate Your Lazy Ass to Get Stuff Done Anyway
It’s almost lunchtime on Monday and I’ve accomplished next-to-nothing for my employer. Sure, I answered a couple emails, but seriously, I absolutely have not earned my paycheck.
Overall, I’m an excellent employee, so why am such a slackard today?
Because Monday is the hardest day to work from home and I didn’t do anything to make it easier.
Why is Monday the hardest day?
Your brain is still in weekend mode. You’re mentally checking off those home tasks — laundry, reading that interesting article, paying bills, replying to a friend’s email, responding to your sister’s Facebook post. If you remain at home, surrounded by home tasks, there is nothing to force your brain onto a new path.
Before Coronavirus, I occasionally worked from home. And I noticed that I was the least productive working-from-home, when I did so on a Monday. Too often I thought I would finish ONE more thing — because after all my browser was already open to that page. I rationalized that it was more efficient overall to finish the article, the order, the email that I’d started on Sunday. I could surely finish it and still start my work day by 9… er make that 9:30…. Well 10 wouldn’t be bad, right?
