How To Beat The Sunday Scaries: Start Working on Sunday
Do you have the Sunday scaries? You know, the rising tide of stress and anxiety that creeps up as the sun goes down on Sunday evening? The feeling of dread for Monday morning, for all the things that you’ll have to do, for all the mistakes you might make?
Well, here’s a surefire way to beat them: Start working on Sunday.
Take a few hours on Sunday evening to get ahead of your to-do list. Make sure to send out emails to the key clients and partners, so they know you’re on top of it. If you work in the service business, and can’t get ahead on your work, do some mental preparation. Think of all the things that might go wrong, and probably will go wrong, and devise solutions to these problems in advance. That way, when problems inevitably arise, you’ll be ready to solve them.
I learned this principle in college, when I found out the best cure for a hangover was to start drinking again.
My typical schedule has me working the usual Monday through Friday. Then I take care of a few things on Saturday mornings, just to tie up the loose ends. Then I take a break for lunch, and by the time I’m finished with lunch, my Saturday scaries start to set in. So I work for a few hours on Saturday evening to make my Sunday work (that I do for Monday) a little less frightening.
By now, I hope you know I’m being facetious.
At some point, hustle culture defeats itself. If you use every Sunday to get ahead of your Monday, Saturday becomes scary, then Friday. We must realize that work isn’t everything. That life’s meaning exists outside of our performance and potential.
I don’t have a surefire way to beat your Sunday scaries. Work and anxiety are a unique journeys for everyone. But I do know that we only have one life, and at the end of it, no one wishes that they worked more.
Enjoy what you have and who you are in the moment, or else your whole life will be scary.
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