Colin Mtita

First
We
Take
Monday

A small rebellion against the dread of the week

Sunday night shouldn't feel like a countdown to doom. Monday shouldn't feel like a sentence. This book is for the ones who want to seize the week before the week seizes them.

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About the Book

You Were Taught to Survive the Week.
This Book Teaches You to Take It.

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Days you could own
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Mondays a year
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Decision that changes them all
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Excuses left after reading
"Most people wait for Monday to pass. This book shows you how to use it."

Every Sunday night, millions of people feel the same dread. A heaviness that settles in around 6pm. The countdown to a week they haven't chosen — a week that has already chosen them.

Colin Mtita spent years watching this pattern — in colleagues, in students, in himself. The Sunday Blues aren't a personal failing. They're a design flaw in how we think about time, momentum, and agency.

First We Take Monday is the antidote. Part mindset shift, part practical system, part rebellion against the calendar that owns you. This is not productivity theatre. This is reclaiming the first day of the week as the most powerful one.

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What's Inside

The Chapters That Hit Different

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The Sunday Blues
Why the dread starts Saturday evening and how to cut it at the root — before it poisons your weekend.
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The Monday Intention
One ritual that transforms Monday morning from a threat into a launchpad. Takes 12 minutes.
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The Weekly Architecture
How to structure your week so energy compounds rather than drains. Design your week, don't survive it.
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The Identity Shift
You can't seize Monday while believing you're someone it happens to. The chapter that rewrites that story.
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The Momentum Engine
Why winning Monday is not about discipline — it's about stacking small advantages that compound through Tuesday, Wednesday, beyond.
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The Diaspora Monday
For those building lives between two worlds. The Monday that carries the weight of history, family, and ambition.

The Conversation

What Does Your Monday Feel Like?

This is the place. Tell us about your Monday. Your Sunday night. Your survival strategy. Your turning point. Real voices, real weeks.

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Colin Mtita
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From the author
I wrote this book because I was tired of watching talented, driven people lose the week before it even started. The Sunday Blues are real. Monday dread is real. But so is the choice to take it back. This space is for us. The ones who are still fighting the week, or who finally figured out how to own it. Tell me your Monday. All of it.
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Amara S.
London, UK
Sunday Blues
2 days ago
For years I thought something was wrong with me. Every Sunday from about 5pm I'd feel this weight descend. My husband thought I was being dramatic. Then I read chapter three of this book and I nearly cried — Colin described exactly what I've been feeling but never had words for. The Sunday Blues are not weakness. They're a signal. Learning to read that signal instead of drowning in it has changed my whole relationship with the week.
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Bernard K.
Nairobi, Kenya
Monday Story
4 days ago
I run a small agency. Mondays used to kill my team's energy before noon. I started implementing the Monday Intention ritual from chapter two — not just for myself but as a team practice. 15 minutes every Monday morning. It's been three months. We have not missed a single client deadline since we started. Correlation? Maybe. But my team feels different now on Sunday nights. And that's not nothing.
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Fatou D.
Dakar · Living in Lyon
Personal Story
1 week ago
Reading the diaspora chapter felt like someone opened a window in a room I didn't know was suffocating me. Carrying two countries inside you adds a particular weight to Monday. The ambition of "I owe it to everyone who stayed behind" mixed with the exhaustion of navigating a country that doesn't always make space for you. I've never seen this acknowledged in a self-help book before. Colin gets it because he's lived it.
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Thomas M.
Montréal, Canada
Mindset Shift
1 week ago
I was skeptical. I've read all the productivity books. 5am clubs, atomic habits, deep work — I've tried them all. What's different here is that Colin doesn't pretend the system fixes everything. He acknowledges that some weeks are just brutal and the goal isn't to perform wellness. The goal is to stay in the fight. That reframe alone was worth the read.

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