Treat yourself on a Monday like you'd treat yourself on a Friday

15 April 2026

Little shifts evoke big shifts in your daily life

I no longer live for Fridays; instead, I live for Mondays.

Many people live for the weekends and holidays. I used to be one of them, not just that, obviously. Yes, occasionally I would treat myself, but often the reality was different. I was too tired to. When I came home from work. I needed to relax. I often didn’t feel in the mood to do something. I would unconsciously postpone tasks to the weekend.

Later, I realized how much that behavior drained my life force energy and negatively impacted my quality of life.

Today I shifted. I live for Mondays. What does it mean? It was not a radical shift. It was a gradual shift I had to become used to.

I started by eating the breakfast I’d usually have on a Friday; I had it on Monday. At first I thought, like, who am I? I almost felt bad for treating myself on a Monday. Something that should be customary, to approach each day as if it is your best, felt uncomfortable to my former self.

Then I started dressing like I’d dress on holidays. That doesn’t mean I wore my most extravagant dress. No. But I would wear the earrings; I’d usually think they’re too much for a Monday. But clearly, they’re not. They make me feel positive.

Then I started putting on the perfume I’d usually wear on Friday. I remember a friend who once told me she’d have two perfumes. A cheaper one for every day and one for the weekend. While there’s no right or wrong and I completely understand this approach too, I started using the perfume I felt like wearing. Sometimes it was the one I’d usually wear on a Friday. I wore it on a Monday when I felt like it.

It doesn’t mean you should force it. But it allows you to shift your identity from low self-worth to your actual worth. You deserve a good life and to treat yourself whenever you want—every day, without needing others' approval or without feeling bad for it.

People like me who used to live for the weekend came to a point where life often didn't feel aligned. It can feel like something is missing. And yes, exactly that. Life itself was missing. The vibrancy. The aliveness. Aliveness doesn’t happen when you only allow yourself to be treated on the weekend. Then one day, even on the weekend, you become too tired or simply feel bad for treating yourself.

You deserve it though. Since I allowed myself to treat Monday like my Fridays, my life upgraded. And that’s the true lesson I learned. Life just doesn’t happen on holidays. It’s not always the big things, the major life successes that count. It’s the little things in daily life that bring a lot of quality.

It’s not always necessarily the big things that change a life; rather, it is often the small, consistent actions and moments that accumulate over time to create significant change. It’s the consistent little things in daily life. It’s a myth to change an entire life overnight. But if you change one habit or an inner attitude today, you’ll be surprised how much this little shift can already change in how you perceive and go through the days.

Sometimes the biggest shifts are silent. They seem mundane, but they have a bigger effect than you may imagine. Sometimes the biggest wins are not the ones where people clap, but the silent contentment you feel on a Monday morning with your favorite perfume and your yummy breakfast, thinking it’s a Friday in your holiday. No, it’s Monday. It doesn’t matter what day it is. You deserve it whenever you feel like having it.

It’s not because you may have nothing to do, but rather because you choose consciously to take time for that, as you know this will truly upgrade your daily life. Not just one day when you think you have more time to enjoy life; that moment may never come.

Of course it doesn’t mean you always have to treat yourself in big ways, but when you feel like it, you unapologetically do. Why? Life is too short to postpone your happiness until Fridays, holidays, or events that may never materialize.

You can’t expect sweet moments to come from living life by default day in and day out. You have to create those sweet moments.

And if you’re thinking my life feels tough. Then that’s a sign to treat yourself even more.

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