- I do not mess with Sunday Scaries.
I mess 'em up.
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Hey there, welcome back to AmyTV.
I know how Sundays can get you down a little bit
thinking about the week ahead of you.
It can be a little overwhelming.
The Sunday Scaries set in and you just feel
like you are completely helpless.
But that is no mindset to be at the beginning
of every single week when you're trying
to go after the life that you want.
So today I wanted to share seven things
that you should not be doing on Sunday nights
so that you can make sure you are not letting
the Sunday Scaries get to you and you can start
the week with the most success.
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All right, if we want to have the best week ever,
then these are the seven things that you need
to stop doing on Sunday nights.
Number one, letting Monday happen to you.
The easiest thing that you can do
is just kind of like sit around all day,
dreading the fact that Monday's gonna happen
and you're just sort of like, nothing I can do about it.
I guess I'm just gonna have to be a victim
to whatever comes my way.
Instead, you should be thinking about how you can prepare
to happen to Monday.
Yeah, here comes hurricane you, ready to pff, do something.
I don't know where I was going with that,
but yeah, I think you get my gist.
Take a good look at what's on your plate tomorrow.
What's gonna happen?
What's the worst thing that could happen tomorrow,
what's the biggest thing that you have going on tomorrow?
What do ya have to get done?
What is looming over that one more night of sleep?
Take it in.
Maybe start writing down some notes about how you plan
to handle it, how you plan to knock it out of the park.
Start to work though it without actually having
to do the work so you don't feel like you're going in blind.
Another thing you can do is to start planning
what's gonna happen additionally,
things you want to happen tomorrow.
You might get a few tips on calendar blocking
in order to make this happen.
So how do you start your morning?
How are you gonna make it your day,
not just what happens to you?
Simply falling victim to everything that you have
to do on Monday is a great way to not own your week,
let somebody else own it, let the rest of the world own it,
let your to do list own you.
Screw that!
No thank you.
Don't let Monday happen to you.
Happen to it and plan on what that's going to look like.
And you gotta stop sleeping in some dirty sheets.
Now this has been a ritual of mine for a lot of years,
I would say at least five, religiously.
At minimum, I am washing my sheets every Sunday morning
and making sure that I'm going to be on Sunday night
to start my week fresh in some fresh sheets.
I mean, it's really great.
Not only are you feeling good about you're in a nice,
clean bed starting your week off right, but you're also,
I feel more likely to get up and make the bed the next day,
because you know everything is fresh and clean
and you're trying to make sure you feel good
every night you go to sleep that week.
And quite frankly,
there is nothing better than going to sleep in a made bed.
I get anxiety about going to bed when the bed is unmade
and it's all messy, and I'm like ew.
I'm supposed to get comfortable in that right now?
Way worse if they're dirty sheets for how long.
I wish I could wash them more than once a week,
but I think that that would be a little overkill
and I don't actually have that time.
Number three, stop assuming you're gonna know
what to eat tomorrow morning, because if you don't know now,
you won't know tomorrow when you're in a scramble,
letting Monday happen to you.
Take a look at the fridge, see what you have.
What can you plan to eat in the morning
that's going to make you feel good,
if you ae a first thing in the morning breakfast person.
I usually wait, you guys know,
I tend to wait a little bit until mid-morning.
But whatever that things is I still don't leave time
for it to be a decision making process.
I make sure that it is prepped and ready for me
to grab at that time that it is to eat.
So if you don't have something prepped and ready,
then you're really not setting yourself up for success,
especially if you end up waking up late
or something happens.
Do not let your energy level and your appetite
be the last thing that you care for,
because that's a great way to nosedive
into the ground by 10:00 a.m.
Number four, you gotta stop pretending procrastinating
is a great idea.
Now I like to procrastinate like the best of them,
however, I also know when I'm going to
be putting myself in a crummy situation.
So if there are dishes left over from Sunday night dinner,
I'm gonna get that done before Monday,
'cause I'm gonna tell you right now,
if I wanna have an awesome Monday,
I do not wanna look at a full sink of dishes.
If there's some kind of homework due this week
and I forgot to make time for it when I was supposed to,
then you know what,
that's what I'm gonna do my early Sunday evenings
that I make sure that I tie up everything
with a pretty little bow so I wake up the next morning
and I can just grab it and get out.
When I was in school, I used to tell myself I would
just do my homework in the morning before I go to school,
but does that ever work?
It never worked for me, come on, be real.
Number five, you gotta stop being lazy,
and that's sort of an over generalization.
I'm just gonna basically say for this one,
get a little bit of activity in your life.
Now I personally do not prefer to do workouts on Sundays
because it's called Sunday Funday for a reason
and working out is not fun.
However, I do like to hit my steps.
So finding a way to exert a little bit of energy
and keep yourself feeling good on a Sunday,
especially when you're like ugh, I gotta work out tomorrow,
I gotta go do my things tomorrow, I gotta work tomorrow,
I gotta do school tomorrow.
Whatever it is, if you really are not feeling at your best
on Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening, go for a little walk,
take it outside, do something on the treadmill in your gym
if it's winter or whatever.
Don't be lazy and just use a little bit of energy
so that you can gain some energy back tomorrow.
Just a little bit of activity is not just great for you
and your body, but it's so amazing for the mind.
And anything that might be stressing you out,
especially when it's Sunday scary time
and Monday is looming.
Number six is not making time for self-care.
It's a lot harder to just go to sleep
if you never really get your whole self there.
So what I like to do for this
is like skin care for the face.
Skin care for the face puts me to sleep.
It makes me feel like it's time to start settling in.
But if you wanna put your body
to sleep a little bit more efficiently,
then hopefully you stop drinking caffeine like way earlier
in the day and you have a little bit
of nighttime Sleepytime tea or something like that.
Do a face mask for your skin,
do some reading time for the mind.
All of these things start to tell your whole body
that it's time to chill and drift off to sleep beautifully.
A different idea could be for you to stay up late,
watch TV, movies, whatever's on YouTube and just letting
other people's ideas and thoughts come into your head
instead of you controlling that,
which is how we get back to that scary mindset
in the beginning.
Instead of you deciding how your week is gonna go,
you're letting the rest of the world decide,
which is not ideal in my opinion when you are going
after the life that you want not what others want.
And the number seven thing you should stop doing
on Sunday nights, very unpopular with many,
is sleeping with your phone.
One of my favorite things to do every night
is tuck my phone in bed on its charger in this office,
away from where I sleep.
Now I'm lucky enough where I can hear my alarm
in this room and when it goes off,
I have to get up to turn it off in here.
But you could also just get yourself
an old-fashioned alarm clock so that you don't
have your Smartphone next to your bed as the excuse
of I need an alarm in my room.
When you do this,
you might wake up in the middle of the night.
What's your first instinct?
You look at your phone.
That's an amazing way to wake yourself up
by having a bright screen
in your face at 3:00 in the morning.
When you have to wake up a couple hours later,
what is that doing for you?
It's messing you up.
It's gonna make your Monday terrible.
Or maybe you forgot to turn your phone on do not disturb
and you've got notifications going off
when you're trying to get a good night's sleep.
What if you did all this other stuff before bed?
What good are they if you let
your phone disrupt all of that?
Ask Vincenzo, my phone is on do not disturb all the time.
Sometimes I forget, sometimes I pretend to forget
that I didn't turn it off, and he knows.
All you gotta do is call me three times in a row
and do not disturb stops working.
Stops working.
It's gonna break through, so if there is an emergency,
somebody's gonna call you three times.
They're gonna call you probably more than three times
if you don't answer the phone.
Technology is our friend, people,
but not if we're trying to sleep.
So find a place for your phone to sleep,
because if it is so important to you,
then you would have given it the same rights
as every other family member in your house
and given it a bed of its own.
Those are my seven things that I recommend
you stop doing on Sunday nights if you want
your week to be amazing
I hope that you'll take some of that advice,
but I would love to hear from you.
What's something that you do every Sunday night
to set yourself up for success?
Leave that in the comments below.
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