“I’ll start on Monday.”

If you haven’t said that before, you’re either extremely self-motivated or you’re lying. It doesn’t matter what you’re setting out to achieve, you probably always think that we’ll have a better shot of doing it after the weekend. For me, it’s sleeping with my phone out of arms reach. For others, it’s getting in the habit of a daily stretch routine, taking a multivitamin, making all meals from scratch, having a more structured workday… whatever it is, it can always start on Monday, right?

Not anymore. I’m done with putting pressure on the first day of the week.

Goodbye Monday motivation: how to create better habits without waiting for a new week