Plan something fun for Sunday night

End the Sunday night blues for good with Laura’s favorite weekend planning tip.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to plan something fun for Sunday night.
I know that it's easy to hate Mondays. Even if
you really like your job, you probably don't love commuting.
You don't like showing up on Monday morning to an

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inbox with four seven unread messages. It makes sense, but
the problem is that many of us don't start thinking
about Monday on Monday morning. Instead, we like to get
a jump on things, So somewhere around mid afternoon on Sunday,
we start remembering that Monday is looming on the next
spot on our calendars. Suddenly we're out of weekend mode.

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We're already focused on the next deadline. These Sunday night
blues can burn a huge chunk of time. If you
start worrying about Monday at three pm Sunday, you go
to about at eleven pm Sunday, that's eight hours of
weekend time that you've just lost. I don't know about you,
but I think weekend time is too precious to throw away.

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Eight hours that's the equivalent of a whole work day
or a really good night's sleep. We're not just talking
a few minutes. Fortunately, there's a simple cure for the
Sunday night blues. Plan something fun for Sunday night a
few days before your weekend starts, maybe on Wednesday or Thursday,
or whenever you're listening to this. Think about a Sunday

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night activity that you really enjoy. Maybe it's seeing a
movie with your family. Maybe it's taking your spouse to
that fun new restaurant you keep saying you want to try.
If you call before the weekend starts, you'll probably be
able to get a reservation. You could invite a few
families over for a pot like dinner. You could plan
to go for a walk somewhere beautiful and time your

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excursion to take in the sunset. I know Sunday is
a school and work nights, so you probably don't want
to go too crazy. Maybe skip the tequila shots, and
you probably want to end things on the early side.
But here's the object of Sunday night plans. When you've
got something wonderful on the calendar for Sunday night, you'll
spend Sunday afternoon looking forward to your fun. You'll be

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so excited about your friends coming over to make pizza
that you won't start thinking about your inbox until after
they leave, and by that point it will be time
to go to bed. Anyway, just like that, your Sunday
night blues take up less than an hour rather than
the entire day. So take a few minutes today and
think about what fun you could plan for Sunday night.

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I'd love to hear what you come up with. As always,
you can email me at Before Breakfast podcast at iHeart
media dot com if you'd be willing to let me
read your note on the air, just make a note
of that this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's
to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody got

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a tip or a question? You can share them with
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words out. I look forward to connecting and learning how

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you make the most of your time.