Next Monday Changes Everything

Mateo is an expert at the fresh start. Every Sunday night, he sits at his kitchen table and writes a Great List. This is the list that will finally transform him into a "Giant." Starting Monday morning, he will wake up at five o'clock, drink green juice, speak perfect Italian, and become the disciplined, successful man he was always meant to be.

But by Tuesday afternoon, the "Better Mateo" has usually vanished, replaced by the same man who forgets his gym bag, eats chocolate for comfort, and stares at a blinking cursor at work.

Next Monday Changes Everything is a humorous, gentle, and painfully relatable exploration of the "Sunday Night Fever" we all know too well. It is a story about the lies we tell ourselves to avoid the difficulty of today. From a gym membership card that has never been scanned to a bookshelf filled with the first five pages of fifty different lives, Mateo's journey is a cinematic and emotional look at spiritual procrastination.

When a high-stakes deadline at work and an unexpected visit from his mother force Mateo to confront his own reflection, he must decide: will he keep running back to the starting line, or will he find the courage to live in the messy middle of the week?

Filled with psychological warmth and universal truth, this novel is for anyone who has ever believed they were just seven days away from perfection. It is a reminder that the "real life" we are waiting for isn't found in a new planner or a Monday morning-it is happening right now, in the quiet, ordinary moments we so often ignore.

Discover why the best version of yourself isn't the one in the future, but the one who shows up on a rainy Wednesday.