I found out this morning that today is ‘blue Monday’, according to Wikipedia:

Blue Monday is the name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) said by a UK travel company, Sky Travel, to be the most depressing day of the year. The concept was first published in a 2005 press release from the company, which claimed to have calculated the date using an "equation". It takes into account weather conditions and thus only applies to the Northern Hemisphere.
Some have dismissed the idea as pseudoscience.

It feels appropriate to me to dismiss the idea of one blue Monday, because, even if there can be a validity to this specific day being particularly gloomy, I am sure the blues will not be over tomorrow and did not start this morning.

This day can be best taken as a reminder that depression at all level of intensity is real, it is happening to many and in the winter grey days can make it even worst.

Accidentally I was in town this morning and I noticed a couple of things that I connect to ‘blue Monday’ one is good, one is great and one is worrisome.
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Let’s start from the worst and build up. 

It is the beginning of a new year and traditionally we all thing of new years resolutions: things we want to do differently or achieve this year, things we will finally start or that we will at least finish.
What if instead of setting yourself up for almost certain failure by making a long list of new year's resolutions, you just chose one thing to focus on this year?
 
I myself have a lot of experience with setting new year's resolutions and consistently failing to do and achieve what I had planned at the beginning of the year.
It becomes demotivating over time because you know what will happen in the end. You also know that it's not because you're not trying hard enough, there's always a lot more that gets in the way, and it's not even a matter of choosing the wrong things to focus on because you really want to achieve everything on your new year's resolution list every year.
In fact, I think there's something different going on and I've decided to try something different this year that I'd like to share with you.
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