5 Ways to overcome Mondayitis – a debilitating illness that seems to target sales people.

Symptoms of Mondayitis may include repeatedly hitting the snooze button; suffering an inability to get out of bed; involuntary moaning and whinging; bribing your partner to call your workplace to advise them you are suffering from a life-threatening illness; activating your ‘out of office’ message on your email account; turning off your mobile phone and failing to attend sales meetings.

Plus a lot more. Listen to this podcast.

The Cure For Mondayitis

1) Don’t end the week till Monday evening. This makes Monday’s feel like the end of the week rather than the start. There is nothing like having a deadline to engender enthusiasm so having a deadline on a traditionally slower day makes sense. This will mean sales meetings are best held on a Tuesday because sales people will be too busy selling on Mondays to attend meetings.

2) Plan Monday on Sunday evening. Prepare a ritual for Monday mornings that will have you leaving home in good order and fired up to succeed. A perfect morning ritual will generally include some quiet time, exercise, reading, fresh green nutrition and a good dose of quality coffee. Whilst driving to work listen to a motivation message or educative material rather than Am/FM clap trap.

3) Spend some time encouraging other sales staff just like you. Make it your purpose to fire up every person you come into contact with during the morning. Behaviour breeds behaviour.

4) Look for an opportunity to teach or help somebody with the intent of making a change. There is no better motivator than like feeling you are making a difference and being appreciated, so why not get this feeling on Mondays. Most poor performers who suffer Mondayitis tend to withdraw and seek isolation – the cure or prevention requires the opposite.

5) By lunchtime your Mondayitis should be beaten for the week but in case it is still lingering, the final piece to get you over the hump is to devote around 20 minutes to learning something new without any apparent practical benefit. This too will serve to trigger another set of synapses in your cerebrum (fire up your brain) and keep you up and performing.

If after all this and you still don’t like Monday’s I suggest you visit You Tube at this link and listen to Sir Bob’s song. Last count 5.7 million visitors have already gone there, probably all sales people.

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