A lot of people do not hate Mondays. They hate the feeling that Monday has already started stalking them on Sunday. You know the feeling. It is 4:30 p.m. The weekend is technically still here, but your mind has already opened twelve tabs. The unfinished email. The awkward meeting. The laundry. The groceries. The thing you promised yourself you would finally organize. Suddenly the last few hours of Sunday feel contaminated. Most advice for this moment is either too intense or too cute. Either you get told to build a color-coded life system, or you get told to light a candle and "choose peace." Neither helps much when your brain is carrying a backlog. What actually helps is a small reset that reduces friction before the week begins. Not a perfect routine. Not a two-hour personal optimization ceremony. Just enough structure to stop your mind from dragging Monday around like a sack of wet clothes. First, stop trying to fix your whole life on Sunday This is where people accidentally make the dread worse.…