Monday, July 13, 2009

Warning: Monday's kill

What? Say it isn’t true! Has another Monday arrived so soon? What is a person supposed to do? Mondays! They’re incredibly dangerous to our life and style!



Numerous studies reveal more people die from heart attacks and strokes on Monday than on any other day of the week.


The British Medical Journal made it their priority to locate a reason and or purpose. What could be so terribly wrong with a single twenty four hour period that would carry the weight of so much blame, making it extremely dangerous for those under the age of fifty?



1. Heavy binge drinking. You can’t hide it or deny it, it’s everywhere you look…in front of the television, on a backyard deck, near a pool, night club or riding in the back of a truck. There’s always a reason to party and even fewer today love doing it half way.



2. Dreading Monday’s is another silent killer. Bitterness toward your job generates enough stress to light up three city blocks. No matter where you walk, talk or catch the financial news, as lucky as most of us are to have employment, nearly eighty percent of those currently holding down the fort can’t stand the idea of having to go to work. It pushes your heart over the edge.


So, what’s a person supposed to do? How can you fall back in love with your job?



According to the top dog experts who sit high atop perches watching waves of American’s soberly walk by…rule number one is to locate the job you love. Which isn’t an easy task, look at the astonishing number of college graduates presently running cash registers at the grocery store or spending eight hours a day answering the telephone for a company that has nothing to do with their financial gain…yep, that’s exactly what their parents forked out forty thousand a year for.



Clair Colvin believes you can love the job you’ve got by realizing what you’ve got doesn’t define who you are as a person. Attitude is everything. You’ll have profound influence over people by keeping it up beat and positive.



Stop landing so much energy on what you’re shoving into a bank.

Money will never be enough. Whatever you earn on the 15th and 30th something’s always going to happen that’s going to yank the net from beneath your feet. By turning your work into something more than a paycheck, the payoff starts to evolve into something worth carrying.



Find significance in what you do. I call this the Oprah Winfrey Secret.

Every job affects somebody. If you sell car parts to giant factories and things have slowed due to the economy, cars still need parts to keep our heaping junks from landing in the city dump. You get people to work by being there for the mechanics who require each piece to make the highway hum.



Clair Colvin believes we should question ourselves daily:


Why did you take the job?
Is what you do daily worth it?
Is there someone at work who makes you feel this way?
Is it time to ask for a new position?
What if you start saying no?
Clair is strict in her way of trying to gain access to who, what, when and where you play. Do all you can to keep work at work and play away from work. Social networking to comparing swings on a golf range should never be part of your game. Stay completely away from coworkers.



Which is an odd thing to say because I once worked with a GM who put everything into turning his company into a brilliant Zen machine. There are no walls! We will work as a single unit by utilizing the energy from each level of performance to raise our company’s presentation inside a world of constant competition.



Zen is like martial arts…never count how many white belts are soaring through the lesson plan…count the number of black belts that are still with him. Then speak to each member as to how they are living in the way of their master’s vision. Six seconds on the path and you’ll walk away realizing we all live separate journeys.



How is your Monday going to be? Look at your life and try to describe it. Are you rushed, excited or stressful? Do you look forward to exceeding the limits or will you continue to hold back? How much will you forget? How often will you blurt out to the cubical next to you, “I quit.”



Is asking yourself questions completely out of your league?



A simple thought…standing at the edge of my 3rd degree black belt test I still wear a white uniform. While some schools rush to put their students in brilliant colors, it is the way of our master’s master’s Great Grandmaster that we stay in white…it serves only one purpose, no matter how much you’ve been taught, lost or will gain today or tonight, every journey has a new beginning. Wearing white says to your heart, body, mind and instructor that you are always willing to learn and the uniform shall be a clean sheet of paper to take incredible notes so that you shall forever grow.



The greatest tool you can hold is a blank landscape begging to be filled.

Put in front of you a clean sheet of paper and let it serve as a place to put your thoughts when your Monday has turned into another nightmare. And when someone invades your space of creative flow, teach them to doodle on the canvas proving to the world that one can easily become two and in the end there will always be incredible art.



arroecollins@clearchannel.com

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