Reinventing Monday

Monday has a terrible reputation. This book aims to fix that.

Ask almost anyone how they feel about Monday and you'll get a groan, an eye roll, or a tired "back to it." We've built an entire culture around dreading one-seventh of our lives — and Reinventing Monday is here to call that out.

It started on January 6, 2014, with a single Facebook post: Wake up! Get up! Stand up! Let's go, let's go, let's go! What began as a small nudge for friends and family grew into a weekly ritual, then a community, then fifty-two honest conversations about what it actually means to live a full life.

Week by week, Darrick Gitomer — known to thousands online as The Inspirational Ginger — tackled the topics people keep dancing around: love, fear, ambition, regret, gratitude, confidence, integrity, and the quiet courage it takes to keep choosing yourself. Some chapters will make you laugh. Others will catch you off guard. All of them will ask you to look a little closer at how you're spending your days — starting with the one you dread most.

Reinventing Monday isn't a five-step plan. There's no formula, no guru, no magic morning routine. It's a reset button, handed to you fifty-two times over. Because Monday is the most natural, built-in opportunity you get to start fresh — every single week, no waiting for a new year, no waiting for the "right time."

The Monday Blues are self-inflicted. If you have time to complain about your life, you have time to change it.