Bare minimum Mondays might not work for everyone and every work environment, but we discuss some ways that can make Mondays a little less scary. Best advice I’ve heard all week: “If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down…even if you feel the friendship has run its course.” We close out the show with more etiquette debates and the fact that Jane hates party games.
“Bare Minimum Monday” has now become viral online thanks to one startup founder who claimed it has helped her avoid burnout at work.
On Mondays, Marisa Jo Mayes, a self-employed TikTok creator and startup founder, does the absolute bare minimum for work. On these days, she doesn’t take meetings and takes it slow for the first two hours; doing some reading, journaling, and chores. It’s two hours of no technology and simply doing whatever she needs to do “to feel good starting my day.”
While many of the activities that define Mayes’ Mondays are not possible for those of us who don’t work for ourselves or don’t work remotely, it begs the question: what about the ethos of a bare minimum Monday could you adopt into your life so that the Sunday Scaries are so bad?
Move over Dear Abby. The National Park Service twitter is reigning supreme as the best place to get advice these days.
Advice like:
To avoid crowds, visit areas that are less crowded.
— National Park Service (@NatlParkService) February 23, 2023
Or like this:
If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down…even if you feel the friendship has run its course.
— National Park Service (@NatlParkService) February 28, 2023
It might be obvious, but it’s invaluable.
We return to a periodic discussion over the different Dos and Dont dictated by New York Magazine from February. Today we discussed:
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