Have you seen my motivation?

Ohhhhhhh Monday mornings.  We should just ban you from existence and start right up with Monday afternoons...do a little switch-a-roo with the work week.  I mean think about it; there are songs written about how terrible Mondays are (the Bangles, Manic Monday).  There are sayings that reflect the physical/emotional impact Mondays have on us (Office Space: "...somebody's gotta case of the Mondays").  I feel like on Mondays someone has taken my motivation and just thrown it out onto 2-94 where it is currently getting run over by gas-guzzling SUVs and Semis.  Whether we should be admitting this or not, overall productivity on a Monday doesn't really equate to a full day's work.   There are several reasons for this:

1) We are tired.  We can't fall asleep at a decent time on Sunday nights because our mind's are wandering about having to go to to work in the morning.  Then we come to work in the morning and we are tired from thinking about coming to work in the morning.  It's a vicious circle.

2) People act as if we haven't seen each other for months.  Every person you pass in the office asks: Ohhh, hey, so how was your weekend?  People generally respond with "Good, how about your's?"  However, occassionally you get the people that want to walk you through Friday at 5PM through the current moment.  And if someone had a kick-ass weekend, then I usually have to come up with something better than the truth.  I try to be cool, but as we all learned last week, I am just old!  :)

3) Lack of motivation.  Even if we didn't do anything over the weekend, and we feel completely well-rested, we lack motivation.  We get depressed knowing we have 5 consecutive days of work in a row, and only two days off.  Thinking about how long 5 days really is sucks the motivation right out of us.  It generally takes all of Monday morning to stop feeling bad for ourselves and start doing something remotely productive.

4) We are day dreaming!  We are thinking about how awesome this past weekend was or how incredible the next weekend will be.  We are literally thinking about anything other than what we should be focused on.  Can you blame us??

5) We are hungover.  For some people this hangover has lasted since Friday night (usually me).  For others, this is a result of Sunday Funday.  Enough said.

All in all, Monday is just an unwelcomed slap in the face that acts as a reminder that your two days away from harsh reality have come to an abrupt close, and your five days "on" commences immediately.  Ready or not, here comes Monday!!