I’ll admit it: I used to be a Monday morning train wreck. I’d arrive at the office groggy and disoriented, my brain still stuck in weekend mode. I’d waste precious time and energy trying to remember what I had been working on before the weekend and what needed to happen next. My productivity and morale would limp along until at least midday, if not longer.
It was a lousy way to kick off the week, and I knew something had to change. That’s when I stumbled upon the idea of the Monday Start Note – a simple yet powerful habit that transformed my Mondays.
Monday mornings can be tough. You get to the office and struggle to remember where you left off on projects the previous Friday. You scramble to piece it together before your team update meeting. Sound familiar?
It’s a huge waste of time and energy to spend the first hours of your week just trying to get back up to speed.
Every Friday before you leave the office, open your notes app and jot down:
I call this the Monday Start Note. Just 5-10 minutes of bullet-point brain dumps to build a bridge between your work weeks.
When you get to work on Monday, simply:
You’ll be amazed how this quick process sharpens your focus and lets you start the week strong. No more Monday fog or wasting precious time getting oriented.
Tips to make this habit stick
With those parameters, it takes mere minutes every Friday but compounds to hours saved.
Once you see the power of the Monday Start Note for your productivity and clarity, I bet you’ll want to use it daily. I now end each workday with a quick brain dump note – so every morning I can hit the ground running instead of struggling to find my bearings.
Try Monday Start Note this week. With this small time investment, you’ll keep your momentum strong, waste less time, and start each week with purpose and clarity. And who knows, you might even start looking forward to the start of the workweek. Stranger things have happened.