Struggling just thinking about the day’s work ahead can really be a bummer! We’ve all felt it at some point or another… waking up wishing you had one more day to the weekend… just not excited about going to work! But sometimes it can become a state of mind that lasts longer than one day. A mental fatigue where your work routine becomes stale and monotonous and the job you once felt excited and grateful for becomes repetitive and boring. You start waking up with that Monday morning feeling everyday.
When you’re performing the same tasks, seeing the same people, and going to the same places, you can start to lack motivation, enthusiasm and productivity. These uninspired feelings can create negativity, stress, anxiety and burnout, impacting your emotional wellbeing.
It’s important to get to the root of why you’re feeling this way. Are you lacking a sense of variety with your job or on your days off? Maybe both?
If you’ve fallen into a rut, taking a different approach at work by changing things up in your office and having more play and fun on the weekends might be all you need to shake things up. It’s important to get creative and solve this issue so you can shift into a new mindset and feel enthusiastic about your job, day and life. Restoring vitality, freshness and playfulness can help give you the ability to face the day ahead with strength and excitement.
“The true secret to happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” —William Morris
Ways to Break the Monotony at Work
- Practice Self Care
- Practice Gratitude
- Practice Self Awareness: Notice how you feel with each thing you do
- Take breaks and do things that make you feel happy and energized
- Change things up: Office, desk, work route, lunch time/food, etc.
- Take breaks from technology/get out in nature
- Be playful! (Don’t know where to start? Try my guided meditation Gratitude & Play)
- Listen to music
- Dance
- Plan things that make you excited and take time to enjoy life’s pleasures
- Hobbies
- Read words of inspiration
Bach Flower Therapy
Try the Bach Flower Remedy Hornbeam. One of the modalities that I use to help my clients is called Bach Flower Therapy. I offer 1:1 sessions, but the Bach Flower system was created as a self help system so anyone can access and use them with ease.
(Don’t know what Bach Flower Remedies are? Check out my 8 minute video What Are Bach Flower Remedies?)
10 Journal Prompts To Help You Break The Monotony
- What do you feel is the root cause of the monotony you’re experiencing?
- What are your career goals?
- Do you feel challenged enough at work? Is there room for growth?
- Do you have fun on your days off?
- Make a list of new things you can try that can bring inspiration and excitement to your life (outside of work)
- How can you change things up?
- Make a list of things your grateful for
- What does happiness feel like to you?
- What’s going well for you?
- What feels magical to you?
If you’ve found yourself in a boring and predictable routine, it’s up to you to be proactive and create the changes necessary to feel positive and stimulated in your work and personal life. In many ways it’s very comforting to have our routine, humans actually gravitate towards repetition, but trying new things and approaches is what makes life interesting.
Change things up and create the life you want to live!
“The more you consider the things you’re grateful for, the greater will be your enthusiasm for life + the things you’re about to accomplish.”—AJ Winters
