Make the Call Monday – My Best Tip for Monday Motivation

This is an easy Monday Motivation – I’m calling it “Make the Call Monday.”

We’ve all been trained to dread Mondays, even when the Monday we’re facing might not be so dreadful. Am I right? Isn’t it almost cultural that we decide Mondays are the worst day of the week?

Guilty as charged. Today isn’t going to be a bad day at all for me.

First, I get to write for an hour, right here, right now, and then in my home office looking at the bunnies playing under the pinon tree in my backyard. Then I get to go to the Foundation office and talk to the stellar staff there, making a plan for a charity event we’ll have at the Compound Restaurant in September (Supper Club – watch for it!).

Later today I’m going to Albuquerque with my sweetie and I’ll do a video for Nusenda Credit Union. I’ll talk about how their generous gift helped the Cancer Foundation buy Meals that Heal.

And yet. It’s Monday.

During COVID I developed the habit of making a call every Monday to someone I was missing, or someone who might need to hear from me. That sounds beyond egotistical and I don’t mean for it to.

It’s just that we were so isolated from one another in 2020. We all needed to hear from one another. With my marketing coaching clients, I had a saying, “Every hand you can’t shake is a call you need to make.”

Here’s how Make the Call Monday works. Think quickly about someone whose voice you’d like to hear. Maybe someone you can encourage today, or who has the capability to encourage you. If you can’t think of anyone, pick up your phone. Scroll through contacts. Dial the number.

This was a trick I learned from my first business coach, Judy Camp. When she was training me to make cold calls for real estate, demanding that I make at least ten calls per day, she’d say, “Call someone who loves you first thing. It will make all the other calls easy.”

So I’d call my sister and say, “It’s me – I’m about to start calling folks and I’m dreading it.” Belinda would laugh and say, “You’re brilliant. I know you’re better at this than anyone else in the world.”

And so that’s who I’d be. All because I made my first call of the day to someone who cared and about whom I cared.

So, spend ten minutes this morning catching up, letting someone know that you’re still here, still thinking of them.

I’ve never had a Make the Call Monday call that didn’t remind me how grateful I was for that friend or cousin or business associate. It’s free, it takes just a moment or two (or longer if you’re fortunate), and it will change the way you look at Mondays. Make it a practice. You’ll start looking forward to your “first thing Monday call.”

Let me know how it goes. And thanks for checking in.

And the image you see? That me with my daughter Johanna, and good friends Yvette and Glena, two of my frequent and favorite Monday calls. Who are yours?