There is a stigma attached to Monday, a day everyone dreads because it’s the beginning of the week. We slowly get out of bed, try to make coffee without falling asleep, and drive to work for the man. We have been trained to think Mondays are the worst! I came in to work today feeling the same doom and gloom feeling that everyone else in the world is feeling. I chugged some coffee, wore my brightest shirt I had to add something fun to the day and drove to work. I sat in traffic thinking about everything I need to do for the rest of the week and the heavy burden started coming back into the picture. I got on the phone and started complaining, complaining about how it’s Monday and I want to go back to bed. I had about 6 calls and got nothing so my mood was going from bad to worse. On the seventh call I answered and did my schpeel waiting for the person on the other end to give me an attitude and tell me to never call again when I got this cheerful voice saying “Hi!!! How are you Miss Gena?” It took me back for a second and I just paused….why was he so happy? What did I do to have him be so nice and sound so excited to talk to me. He sounded like he just won the lottery. I told him I was good and then I began to thank him, I told him “Sir, I just want to tell you how enthusiastic you sound and the way you said hi to me made me want to talk to you, you made me feel good.” I began to thank him for being so cheerful and warm and he goes, “You know Gena, so many people hate Monday but for me it is the best day of the week”….I asked him why Monday? He began to explain that we should learn to love Monday because it’s the start of the week so we might as well start our week off right and make Monday the best day. It’s the beginning of everything new and we all should treat Monday and welcome it with open arms. Brian and I talked for several minutes and before we hung up even though I didn’t get a sale I thanked him again and he told me to keep my head up and change my perspective on the day.
Brian gave me something I needed and everyone needs every now and then, a reminder. A simple reminder that no matter what the day is, what has happened, we need to welcome every day with open arms and see it as a new opportunity. We pile on unnecessary stress and disappointment around our days when we should be celebrating the new opportunity that has been presented to us. Talking to Brian reminded me of the bible verse from Lamentations 3:22-23, “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness”. Every morning his blessings are made new again so why start the week off dreading it? We put ourselves in our own misery but why? I am so guilty of this and that’s why we all need a Brian, we all need a reminder.
There are so many things to be grateful for but we focus on that one thing, the one pain out of all our joy. It’s like God is telling us to focus and look straight at Him but instead we look all around us and get overwhelmed. All God is telling us to do is to look straight at Him because then you can see the blessings instead of focusing on the unimportant, the things that bring us down, and the devil. Start today focusing straight ahead. See today as an opportunity to have an amazing week. Be a Brian in a day full of miserable people, change your perspective then make an impact on someone like he did me. Spread your joy and become a vessel for the new mercies.
Today is Monday, the best day of the week. You got this. Head up and focus on the amazing things soon to come.