In this solo coaching video, certified high‑performance coach Alex encourages viewers to treat each day with the optimism, confidence, and sense of opportunity that many associate with a fresh Monday. Using weight loss as a relatable example, Alex explains how people often postpone starting a new habit until a designated “Monday” but then encounter obstacles that delay action. He advocates taking immediate, small steps—such as cutting back on carbs at a single meal or drinking more water—to build a series of wins that generate momentum. Alex stresses the importance of redefining one’s identity, shifting from seeing oneself as an unhealthy or “carb‑loving” person to embracing the identity of a healthy individual, which influences choices automatically. He illustrates this with a colleague’s transition from meat‑eater to vegan, showing how adopting a new self‑label made resisting tempting foods effortless. Alex also acknowledges that setbacks are inevitable, urging self‑forgiveness and a return to the Monday‑style optimism. The core message combines daily proactive mindset, incremental actions, identity reframing, and compassionate resilience as a winning formula for lasting self‑improvement.
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Hello, hello, this is Alex, your certified high performance coach. Happy hump day! I'm here today to talk to you a little bit about treating every day like a Monday. So you might be wondering, why would I treat every day like a Monday? I hate Mondays, they suck. I happen to like Mondays, I think Tuesdays kind of suck. But why would I want you to treat every day like a Monday? So when I think about Mondays, what comes to mind is opportunities, possibilities, a sense of confidence, a sense of hope. And when you're embarking on a new adventure or you're setting a new goal for yourself— for example, I'm going to use losing weight as an example because it's deeply personal and I think it will resonate with a number of you, but you could change, losing weight with quitting smoking or developing a positive mindset, whatever that is for you. But for me and for the purposes of today's video, I'm going to talk about losing weight. So in the past, in my history, what I've always done is to say, okay, you know what, something happens. I've had, you know, migraines for 3 days. I can't keep doing this. It's not healthy. It's not good. It's not what I want. So I'm going to go on a diet, I'm going to change my ways. And very seldom does that happen on a Sunday night where Monday is the day to start. So it usually happens somewhere during the week. And what happens between that day and the Monday? Well, you got a bunch of food in your cupboards that maybe you need to get rid of, or you don't have the right sneakers so that you can go, you can go walking, or whatever the case may be. There's always something that's kind of getting in the way of, you know, starting right away. We always make excuses because we expect the journey is going to be difficult, and we try to delay that as much as possible by saying, okay, if I make that decision on Thursday, then I'll start on Monday because I'm going to have time to make peace with the decision I just made so that I can, you know, reach, reach that goal. So when you treat every day like a Monday You don't have to worry about that. That's the beauty of it, is you set your goal. I want to start losing weight. I want to get in the best health of my life. And you know what? Why am I going to wait? What is the point of waiting? So start getting those wins under your belt. Start celebrating those things. Take small steps. You know, if you are somebody who's used to eating carbs at every meal, and you find that you actually function better without all those carbs and you decide to cut back, you know, that's a small step. It's a step in the right direction. It means that instead of eating carbs breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and maybe snacks in between, maybe you stick with lunch because you know that you're going to have time to kind of burn through, they're not going to impact you so much in the afternoon, whatever the case. Maybe, right? So you start by making those small steps, and that Thursday in your mind can be a Monday. Approach it like a Monday. Approach it with that sense of optimism. Celebrate those small wins because accumulating those small wins are going to help you to be successful. So Thursday comes and goes. You had a great day. You did everything right. You, you know, drank all the water you wanted to drink. You went, you exercised, you did all of those things. And now it's Friday. Friday, day 2. But Friday, what if you treated Friday like that Monday, with that same sense of optimism, with that same desire to succeed, right? And you do that consistently, day after day after day after day. And, you know, when you fall off the wagon— because it happens, we all do— whether, again, you're quitting smoking or you're trying to lose weight, it happens, and it's okay. You know, you have to be able to forgive yourself. But one of the things also that helps is not only treating Mondays or treating every day like a Monday, but it's also redefining your identity. So one of the reasons I believe I've been unhealthy in my life is because I've always identified with somebody who hates working out, who feels that, you know, if I go on a diet, I'm going to miss out on all the yummy foods that, you know, that I love. I'm going to lose something, or the journey is going to be difficult. So that's, that's been my identity, that's been my belief around being healthy, and I believe that's why I haven't succeeded in being healthier and having a healthier lifestyle. But if I think about now, instead of identifying as an unhealthy person trying to make healthy decisions, which is really going to be short-term. What if I thought about myself as I'm now a healthy person? What decisions and what choices would I make as a healthy person? Very different from somebody who sees themselves as unhealthy. So just to give you a quick example and really who the inspiration was for, for making, um, for, for looking at how to change my identity as a way to help me to succeed. I have a colleague, um, from work who, um, who went through a journey of being a meat eater to being a vegetarian to now being fully vegan. And at some point last year, we had a pizza party at work, and the pizza smelled so good. If you guys like pizza, you know what I mean when you've got that yummy smell of pizza. And obviously she used to eat pizza because when she was a vegetarian, she was still eating dairy, so she would have pizza from time to time. And I saw her and, you know, she did not touch the pizza. So I asked her how she made that transition. How did she— how can she resist when it smells so good? How did you resist not having a slice of pizza? And she says, oh, it's easy. It's like, that's not who I am. You know, when I made the decision to go vegan and I started identifying with being vegan, it became a non-issue because it became, when the pizza came, this is not who I am, this is not what I want, this is not how I operate. And that's how she's been able to not only go or change her diet to being vegan, but she's been able to maintain it all that long is because she's been— she's changed the way she looked at herself and what she identified with. So when I think about overall the journeys that we take to self-improvement, it's— again, it goes back to two things for me. First, treat every day like a Monday. I know, like I said, it sounds crazy, but treat every day like a Monday. And then redefine who you are, change your identity. Again, not to say that it's going to be easy, but how you approach who you need to be for this new reality that you're looking for, it changes everything. All your behaviors, your thoughts. Again, not that you're not going to stumble, because we all do. I have many, many times. But by approaching this new challenge as this is who I am now, and approaching every day with that sense of wonder and that sense of hope and that sense of possibility is a winning combination. So thank you, that's what I wanted to share with you guys today. I hope it serves you, and I will talk to you soon. Take care, bye!
