Fuck man, I am as much sick of this question as I love it.
The fact that you need extra motivation on a Monday is one of the quickest tells that right now, you are a losing player in a game that’s rigged against you.
When I think about the next morning on a Sunday, I can’t wait to dig my hands into the fucking dirt again. To bite my nails thinking about what I want to write next. To stare at the blinking cursor until it drives me insane.
You know why? Because you and I, my friend, are drowning in opportunities.
DROWNING. There are so many opportunities to live the life of your dreams, I don’t know how people sleep.
I mean, I get it.
Your current job sucks. Your parents force you to do this thing. Your loans keep you tied to one place.
Guess what? Everyone deals with shit like that. Everyone.
You’re not a special snowflake. Right now, all you are is a complaining snowflake. And complaining has never ever, ever, EVER, gotten anyone from bad to better.
The truth is Monday can’t do shit about that. Monday isn’t out to get you. Quite the opposite. Monday shows up at your door, every week, begging you – begging you – to jump at the opportunity it brings and punch all this horse shit right in the face.
You don’t like your Mondays now? Fine.
Then do something about it. The world is smothering you in opportunities and you’re out here complaining. I’m sick of it.
- Start a Youtube channel about rope skipping.
- Learn how to hijack geofilters to promote your app on Snapchat.
- Stop lying in the fucking sun all weekend and use those 48 hours for your passion project.
- Read up on the history of your company, your industry, your boss and her boss and your boss’s boss’s boss.
- Reverse engineer people, make them happy, they’ll return the favor.
- Record a podcast in the car to work, instead of just listening to one.
Whatever you do man, stop complaining.
Realize how lucky you are to even be here. Realize you may not be next Monday.
Realize there’s always someone with a much bigger reason to complain. Realize you’ve been given the chance of a lifetime to do your thing.
Realize it’s up to you to build a life in which it doesn’t matter if it’s Monday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, a holiday, an off day, a snow day, a tough day, Easter, New Year’s or Christmas Eve.
And then go and build that life.
Signing off on a motherfuckin’ Thursday.
-Nik
