Why do I dread Monday every Sunday?

By Sunday afternoon the weekend is already gone, eaten by a Monday that has not even arrived. You are not resting; you are bracing. That dread is not weakness. It is your own good sense telling you something about the week ahead is out of line. Some of it you can name. Is it one meeting, one person, one pile of unfinished work? Dread is usually vaguer than the real problem, and the vagueness makes it heavier. When you drag the fear into daylight and give it a name, it shrinks from a fog into a thing you can actually handle. This Sunday, take ten minutes and write down the one thing about Monday you are dreading most. Then decide the very first small move you will make on it. You cannot always change the week, but you can change how much of your weekend it is allowed to steal. Start by taking Sunday back.