Pay attention to the Sunday night feeling. If it’s dread every week, something in your Monday needs a closer look.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

A bit of reluctance before a week starts is ordinary and means nothing much. The same feeling every single Sunday is a pattern, and patterns are information rather than moods. Something specific is being dreaded, and because it arrives as a general cloud it is easy to conclude you just hate Sundays.

Get specific instead, since a cloud cannot be dealt with and a detail can. Write down what exactly you are not looking forward to: one class, one person, one hour. Then change the one piece that is changeable and see how much of the cloud goes with it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What does Sunday night feel like for you most weeks?

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