The High Performance Podcast · 2026-09-02 · 24 min · 5,166 words

Why You Attack Monday And Crumble By Friday

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Hi there, welcome along to another episode of High Performance. This is one of our regular weekly episodes with myself and Damien. Hey Damien. Hey Jake. We just sit and talk about some of the biggest lessons that we've learned after seven years of bringing you this podcast, over four hundred episodes. Thank you so much for your continued support and love for the show. Please make sure that wherever you're watching or listening, you hit subscribe, you hit follow, or you just reach out and send us a message. We're going to read some of your messages at the end of the show. But on today's episode, we're asking Why do you feel ready to attack the world on a Monday? And you're struggling by the time Friday comes around. It's a conversation really about productivity and overwhelm. Because it turns out that overwhelm is not a personality flaw.

It's quite simply a maths problem. So the reason why we feel good sometimes and then bad at other times is It's all to do with capacity. So it's sleep, it's energy, it's confidence, it's clarity, it's control. Those are all the things that are moving in our life. And it isn't necessarily the workload. So I hope that by the end of today's pretty short episode, you will feel Fully equipped. to be able to attack your workload regardless of what else is happening in your life. I think it's an important conversation actually to have for anyone that listening to guys. I think it's a really powerful topic. I think

For many of us, you know, if it's the time of year where we're going back to school or we're coming back off holidays or You know, we've just got new tasks that are dominating our agenda. We can often feel squeezed and then we feel that it becomes impossible. And it leads to Paralysis by analysis where we do nothing.

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