Blue Monday

Posted by Paul Hardingham on Jan 19, 2015 in Fun, Jobs and Careers, Makes you think, Working from home | 3 comments

If you’ve woken up today feeling bluer than you usually do on a Monday morning, you probably won’t be alone. Today – Monday, January 19 – is the gloomiest, unhappiest day of this new year, say experts. The good news is, 2015 gets better… starting tomorrow. Or, if you’re an optimist, starting right NOW. The grimness of ‘Blue Monday’ is believed to be caused by several factors – the realisation that you’ve spent far too much in the holiday season of Christmas and New Year, the accompanying knowledge that you also ate far too much and piled on extra kilos, and the fear that you’ve made new year resolutions you will be unable to keep. All this, plus the relentlessly dull weather. Experts say that people tend to cope with ‘Blue Monday’ by hoping money worries will go away...