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  • Updated: January 13, 2023

How To Leverage Technology To Deal With Blue Monday Stress

How To Leverage Technology To Deal With Blue Monday Stress

Monday Blues Stress

For starters, Blue Monday refers to the third Monday in the month of January postulated as the gloomiest or most harrowing day of the year. 

Your diary is probably rich with expert tips on things to do to avert Blue Monday blues:

  • Work on your psyche the night before;

  • Sleep early enough the night before;

  • Set a soul-music alarm to caress you into a wake-up mode on Blue Monday morning; and

  • Bounce out of your bed straight into some aerobics on Blue Monday morning.

We are unable to say for sure that these tips have worked for most people. Why? Because it probably comes with additional efforts - everyone's Achilles Heels.

Regardless of whether you are on diet, have discovered a new fitness program, or have reached a new year's resolution to become insanely rich, life will always throw up things to dampen your spirit or, perhaps, leave you highly demotivated. 

Next Monday (January 16, 2023) happens to be this year's Blue Monday!

However, the key to accomplishing objectives lies in making them challenging not to accomplish.

Therefore, rather than introduce additional hurdles for overcoming Blue Monday, through this article you get help for overcoming it, thanks to a few technology tips.

The theory of Blue Monday was propounded by Dr Cliff Arnal, a psychologist.

Arnal researched the psychological impacts on people of factors such as average hours of daylight (D), days until the next bank holiday (B), days since last pay (P), the average temperature (C), the number of nights in during the month (N), failing New Year’s resolutions (as we all do) and dark and dreary mornings.

The summation of these factors led him into concluding that January's third Monday was the most traumatic day of the year.  Incidentally, it's a day that also witnesses a lot of absenteeism at the office.


Ways to Leverage Technology for Overcoming the Blues
 

With Tech, You Can Create a Workplace Support Network

Something like communicating easily won't be possible without technology, especially during stressful moments.

It is a way to go floating a helpful digital support network.

This can be useful for helping and communicating with work colleagues as well as asking questions and sharing their progress.

An ordinary Whatsapp, Twitter, or sms message letting them know they're being thought of can go a long way in soothing the pains and stress they're going through. 

When Technology Becomes the Best Icebreaker

Following 2018 research from Willis Towers Watson’s Global Benefits Attitudes Survey, about 45% of employees may find it difficult to divulge stress and anxiety-related issues to their managers.

However, technology can facilitate 'icebreaker' moments much more easily than face-to-face interactions afford.

Technology can provide huge digital resources (i.e., soul music, inspirational words, etc.) while collective problems and concerns are shared in support groups or confidential helplines.

Your Wellbeing is a Reflection of Your Health

From experience, I can testify to how light aerobics can lighten the mind from unwelcome encumbrances.

Investing in highly affordable exercise-promoting technology can be an immeasurable venture.

Research has shown how exercises release endorphins which can trigger positive surges of body energy.

Since the thought of exercise is dreadful to some people, requisite technology can ease them into a calisthenic mood.

Once started, an exercise boosts one's sleep quality, energy, self-esteem, and mood as well as mitigating one's exposure to unenvisaged health issues. 

Today's Wearable Fitness Smartwatches Are Great Companions

Smartwatches embrace technology to positively impact one's health. 

These smartwatches can monitor and reveal vital changes regarding one's health metrics including the body’s stress response, heart pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, etc.

They help you keep track of daily exercise and health targets thereby creating a sense of fulfilment that can be a boost to your happiness.

Technology as a Tool to Elevate Mental Health

The Calm app

Increases in pressure, anxiety, and stress in times of unanticipated developments are familiar to all of us.

There are apps today aiming to support sound mental health.

For example, the Centre for Humane Technology once named the app Calm "the world's happiest app" for sleep, meditation, and relaxation. 

In the same vein, meditation-aiding apps such as Mindful, Headspace, and Aura exist for everyone's use.

When any of these gadgets are utilized for focusing on things other than work and stress, you can win over everyday stress.

Depending on You, Mobile Banking can Stop Cash Haermorhage!

Nothing can be as tormenting as the thought of running out of cash.

Today's Mobile Banking apps can be wonderfully put to use to abate this trend.

These apps also provide useful tips for managing your money when you use budgeting tips, budget calculators, and saving tools. 

Thanks to IoT, a connected financial world has eased some of the burdens by putting you in control.

Conclusion

As noted above, Blue Monday is now celebrated as the third Monday in the month of January every year.

It is celebrated more in terms of workers and workplaces.

Blue Mondays are characterized by diverse emotional and psychological surges of stress experienced by workers who are waking up again to the realities of responsibility put upon the shoulders of these workers.

Specifically, Blue Monday stress factors include average hours of daylight (D), days until the next bank holiday (B), days since last pay (P), the average temperature (C), the number of nights during the month (N), failing New Year’s resolutions (as we all do) and dark and dreary mornings.

In parts of the world like Nigeria, Blue Monday factors can include the sudden realization of school fees to be paid and house rents to be settled in the month of January.

However, technology readily comes to the rescue depending on where you are coming from.

You only need to keep an open mind and enquire!

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