Do You Suffer From the Sunday Scaries?

27 Dec Do You Suffer From the Sunday Scaries?

Sunday used to be my least favourite day of the week

Yup, even more than Monday. Hard to believe, right?

The reason I hated Sundays so much was because, while it should have been a relaxing part of my weekend, it was instead filled with overwhelming anxiety and stress about the impending work week.

From the time I’d wake up on Sunday mornings, all I’d be thinking about was what the next five days would bring. Like countless meetings for things I didn’t really care about, a never-ending list of boring tasks to do, and having to put a smile on my face and pretend like I was happy to be there.

Pretend as if I liked sitting in my beige cubicle for 8 hours a day, when every cell in my body wanted to run for the exit.

All of these thoughts would weigh on me so heavily, to the point where Sundays essentially became another work day. Because although I wasn’t physically in the office, my mind was.

So out of a given 7-day week, I was working 6 of those days. I’d spend 6 days of every week living in pure misery so I could enjoy one day—my sacred Saturday.

I carried on this way for a long time. Years, actually. Until I realized one day how unbelievably insane it was.

I was spending nearly 90% of every week unhappy. Which meant, when I zoomed out from the work focus, that I was spending 90% of my life unhappy. NINETY PERCENT!

I realized I didn’t want to live that way anymore. That being in those circumstances was of my choosing. And that I could also make another choice. A better one. One that involved flipping that ratio, so that I would instead enjoy 90% of my life (*at least*).

So I did. And now Sundays are my favourite day of the week!

Life is short. And spending it most of it unhappy because you feel like you should tough it out, or that it’s normal to be so miserable about work is crazy talk.

You are always, always just a few choices away from an entirely different life. You have the power to create a new reality for yourself if you want to. So will you?