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Focus on This

Winning Monday Starts on Sunday

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Education, Timemanagement, Productivity, Focus, Organization, Michaelhyatt, Planning, Achievement, Business, Worklifebalance, Goals

4.5 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Sunday scaries are real—but what if they don’t have to be? In this episode, Marissa Hyatt and Joel Miller show you exactly how to win every Monday by doing a Weekly Preview by Sundays. You’ll learn why “the scaries” happen, how to calm your system with clarity, and the practical steps to enter every Monday confident, prepared, and focused.


Key Takeaways

  • Scaries are brain biology. Uncertainty spikes cortisol. Knowing what’s coming resets your body and your brain (even if you know the plan is prone to change).
  • Celebrating wins matters. There’s more to celebrate than you realize, and noticing your wins helps you move naturally into gratitude—which comes with real benefits.
  • Explore the Weekly Preview. Learn our simple process for learning from the past week and planning for the next. We break it down step-by-step.
  • Make it a ritual. Choose your day, add music, grab a drink, and make it “a thing.” When you follow through on your ritual, you’ll notice a difference in your weeks.
  • Share to stay aligned and accountable. Walk through the process with your spouse. Share your Weekly Big 3 with your team. Involving others can keep you on track.
  • Mind your emotional contagion. Calm, prepared energy spreads—so does panic. Choose what you bring into Monday for yourself and for others.


Resources



Watch on YouTube at:  https://youtu.be/dG9y7GJbk-s

This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound


Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, it's almost Halloween. I mean, there's Halloween decorations out everywhere, but I don't think

0:06.3

there's anything scarier than Sunday night. And the thing is, you get like 52 of those a year,

0:13.7

not just one. It's nearly haunting. People dread it all weekend long. It's like Friday comes.

0:20.4

You feel relieved to be off work, you go home,

0:23.6

Friday evening is fine. You wake up Saturday, you're in a bit of a day's, you know, you have a million things to do, you get started on those million things,

0:30.6

and then somewhere in the middle of Saturday it starts to dawn on you that amazingly, frighteningly, predictably, there will be a Monday.

0:41.3

And then Sunday arrives and you're in this low grade fright all day long, this horror

0:48.2

that Monday will in fact arrive.

0:51.2

And it's like you can already imagine how Monday is off track. And in fact, the whole

0:56.8

week, it hasn't happened yet, but it's already a disaster scene. That's just not a fun way to start

1:02.3

a week. And yet we do it all the time. So here's the question. What if you could just flip that

1:08.0

script so that Monday felt like a win before it even starts.

1:12.5

So that the scary Sunday thing, not so scary.

1:16.2

In fact, it's a delightful day.

1:17.9

It's just a wonderful day.

1:19.5

And instead, you walk into Monday feeling like everything is on track and that train will stay on track the entire week long.

1:27.3

That sounds like a good thing to me.

1:28.3

I wonder if we can do it.

1:30.3

Welcome to focus on this, the most productive podcast on the internet.

1:39.3

I'm Marissa Hyatt.

1:40.3

And I'm Joel Miller.

1:41.3

This is where we remind you of something that you already know.

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