The Monday Loop: A Thought Experiment for Entrepreneurs Building Beautiful, Burnout-Free Lives And Businesses
Let me ask you something that might sound borderline illegal in the hustle economy:
What if Monday was your forever?
No Fridays. No vacations. No "someday when things settle down." Just Monday on repeat.
Now pause. Breathe. Before your nervous system starts drafting a resignation letter from life itself, stay with me. This is a thought experiment. One I stumbled into during one of those "maybe I should just disappear into a forest and make herbal tea for the rest of my life" moments.
It started with a simple realization: we, as women building empires (or just trying to get through a damn to-do list without crying), are Olympic-level experts at postponing joy.
We defer happiness like it’s a tax bill—
"After I land that client." "Once I finally fix my offer." "When my inbox doesn’t feel like a war zone."
And listen, I get it. I used to be the queen of conditional joy. I told myself I'd finally exhale after I hit that next revenue milestone. Spoiler alert: when I got there, the goalposts had already moved, and I was too fried to celebrate.
Until I stumbled on this little mental reframe. The Monday Loop.
Picture this: it's Monday morning. Your alarm goes off. Again. And again. Forever. There’s no Friday coming to save you. No wine-soaked weekend. No Bali sabbatical waiting in the wings.
It’s just Monday. Forever.
So— Would you be okay? Would your life—your work, your routine, your environment, your mind—feel like something you could keep doing on repeat?
Because if not? Houston, we have a burnout problem waiting to happen.
This isn’t about being dramatic. It’s about being honest.
When I played this game with myself, I saw exactly where I was outsourcing my aliveness to "later." I was surviving my life, not living it. Treating joy like a reward for endurance instead of a requirement for sustainability.
I know I’m not the only one.
We romanticize weekends because they represent everything we don’t allow ourselves during the week: rest. Pleasure. Spaciousness. Slowness. Time to make an actual meal or talk to someone without glancing at a Slack notification.
But what if we stopped using the weekend as a permission slip?
What if we made our business—and our life—feel good now?
Redesigning Your Daily Experience
The Monday Loop is a gut check. It asks:
Are you building something you actually want to live inside?
Do your days reflect the kind of success your soul wants, or just what the industry applauds?
What could shift if you stopped pretending joy was some far-off destination?
I started adding slow rituals to my mornings. Stopped bulldozing through lunch. Gave myself full permission to close the laptop at 3pm and go to the stables. Or take a bath. Or do absolutely nothing and not make it mean I'm lazy.
And you know what happened? My work got better. Sharper. More magnetic.
Because when you stop treating your business like a meat grinder, it stops spitting out work that feels like mush.
The Truth About Thriving
Here’s what they don’t put on the glossy sales pages: You can be successful and still hate your day-to-day.
But that’s not the point, is it?
You didn’t start this business to escape a job only to recreate it in your home office. You didn’t become a CEO to become your own worst boss.
You’re allowed to feel good. You’re allowed to build something slow, sensual, strategic. You’re allowed to want success and nervous system safety.
And you don’t have to wait.
The Journal Prompts (That Might Sting a Bit)
If Monday was on loop forever, what would need to change?
What are you postponing joy for—and is the payoff even guaranteed?
What do you reserve for weekends that you could sprinkle into Tuesday?
Where are you denying yourself aliveness while you "earn" your future?
If you’re postponing joy, who taught you that you had to suffer first to deserve it? Is that belief true? Where did it come from—and what would be a more empowering narrative to live by?
Final Thought
There’s no fairy godmother coming with a glittery wand and a Google calendar saying, "Congrats babe, you’ve suffered enough. You now get to enjoy your life."
You decide that. You build that. One slow, intentional, beautifully structured Monday at a time.
Want help designing your dream Monday—and actually living it?
This is literally what I do inside private mentorship. We don’t start with funnels or branding—we start with your calendar. Your actual life. If your current reality feels like a mismatched outfit you can't wait to rip off at the end of the day, that’s a problem. And it’s fixable.
Awareness is cute, but it won’t rearrange your workload, rewrite your offers, or stop you from hate-scrolling job ads at 9PM.
→ Click here to apply to work with me. Tell me where you're at and what’s not working. I’ll help you rebuild it—beautifully and without the burnout.
