Click Here To Purchase Every Monday Matters: 52 Ways to Make a Difference  

Authors:  Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza

ISBN-10: 1404105123

ISBN-13: 978-1404105126

This is kaizen for social activists! 

The concept of Every Monday Matters is very interesting.  The whole idea is both altruistic and practical at the same time as each week of the year, or rather each Monday of the year, focuses on making the readers’ lives, and the world around us all, a bit better.  The outcome is getting many people to make small changes leverages the change in the world about us.  Getting one person to improve their lives on a weekly basis will have a profound difference at the end of a year.

Though the book is no “casual reading” in that there is not any plot – it is more of an instruction manual, Every Monday Matters can make an interesting and engaging read.  I would imagine that like me you will find yourself turning pages and saying “I can do that!” on many of the Monday entries.  At the same time there are entries (Read a Book, No Nicotine, etc.) that have already been incorporated in my daily routine so that Monday would be empty on my schedule.  I am sure that anyone who reads this book and is committed to change in the world would find entries of the same. 

There is a bit of help in this book and from this book for everyone:  Military veterans, old folk, children, homeless, animals and…  You!

The whole purpose of Every Monday Matters it would seem has nothing to do with politics but it has everything to do with getting people involved in small steps, every week over an entire year.  The idea that jumps off the page is that the lives of both the reader and the world around him will be altered by this book in a small way for an entire year. 

If you are the type person who is into accessories in their books Every Monday Matters includes fifteen-minute bonus DVD providing two celebrity segments and some codes for special areas on the book’s own website.  I found it interesting but if you don’t have Apple Quick Time you will have to download this first before watching the DVD section.  If you aren’t the type person who is in to that then don’t worry, the book gets its points across sufficiently.

I have the feeling that if you do buy this book and read the whole thing from beginning to end you will have to either invoke its ideas into your life or put it away where you cannot see it – or it will be a constant reminder of what you should be doing! 

Not me though.  I have been adding Tasks in my Microsoft Outlook for every Monday in the year to come!