Day 1: Choosing your Focus - Mondays

“Your week is shaped by your first move. Make it strong.”

Mondays are infamous for sluggish starts. You came off a relaxing day, and now it’s time to start grinding all over again. You wake up thinking about how tired you are, how much you “don’t feel like it,” or how far away the next weekend seems. How many of you have started planning the next weekend before you started planning your current week? This mindset sets the stage for a week of excuses. For the week and your entire current day. Every time you bring up a negative, you will need to work twice as hard to squelch it, just offset it. Then you have to put yourself in a positive mindset to be back on track, for the day and for the week.
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But Mondays are your tone-setters. It’s the day you prove to yourself that no matter how you feel, you can act with intention. Choosing a ‘focused start’, on Monday, isn’t just about today—it’s about sending your future self a message: “I’ve already won the week.”

​If you focus on a productive first workout, a good breakfast, and clear priorities, the rest of the week falls into place more naturally. Your first thought on a Monday does not have to be your first hour of work. It can be, how you set up your mind and body for success, by engaging a positive attitude, before you take on hour one.