Tuesday The Forgotten Hangover of Motivation
Uncle Bobby, every Tuesday feels like the weird forgotten middle child of the week. Monday gets all the hate, Wednesday has a nickname, Friday’s the hero, and Tuesday? Just kinda sits there like a day nobody invited. How am I supposed to get motivated when even the calendar acts like this day don’t matter?
Randy O. Routine
Ah yes… Tuesday. The plain oatmeal of weekdays. The beige wallpaper in the motel room of your workweek. It’s not awful like Monday, not hopeful like Wednesday — it just is. Tuesday is the emotional equivalent of lukewarm coffee and leftover meatloaf.
So how do you get motivated? Simple. You don’t. You fake it. Slap on that half-hearted smile, answer two emails, and schedule a “strategy call” that’s really just you watching the clock tick down. Tell your coworkers you’re “heads down today,” then proceed to rewatch the same 4-minute YouTube video on loop while clutching a can of caffeine like it’s a flotation device.
Truth is, Tuesday isn’t going to try harder, so why should you? Embrace its mediocrity. Make it your brand. Be aggressively average. File one report, send two Slack messages, and ride that productivity high like you just cured scurvy.
Because Tuesday ain’t winning any popularity contests — but it is one step closer to Friday. And in this economy, that’s about all the purpose we can afford.
– Uncle Bobby