The Monday Life 1 week fundraiser

The environment inside a hospital directly affects how the patients heal. While hospital administrators around the country understand this impact, it is the rest of us who have not yet felt its power. We cannot understand the happiness and healing generated by natural lighting, or poetry, or music because we have not been inside the war zone. Since most of us do not currently recognize this opportunity, we do not support it. And because hospital budgets are fighting just to keep beds and doctors on their balance sheet, of course there is no room for a cause that no one knows about. Until now.

We all need to see what a healing environment looks like, and how exactly it works. We need to put ourselves in a hospital bed, and then ask…what would we want around us? No one can answer that question until they rethink what a hospital should be. Rethink why hospitals always seem to be painted with a shadow of sadness. Rethink modern medicine beyond better formulas and improving procedures. We do that, and we will begin to see that a hospital room can actually be part of the treatment.

But everything starts with understanding that rethinking is a mindset, not a one-time act. Rethinking needs to be a culture. So The Monday Life created a plan to get the ball rolling. Let’s rethink a couple things in our lives, and see if we can make them better. That way, the movement to improve children’s hospitals is also one to improve our own lives. The plan starts with 2 things…Mondays and charitable donations. Right now, it seems that everyone hates Mondays and charity means guilt and a single check. Both are opportunities to rethink. Look at Monday differently and we find ourselves happy to wake up early for work, because that means that we get to wake up. Actually commit, time after time, to something good and we add real value to the one shot we get on earth (not to mention we’ll be a lot happier while we’re here). Rethink Mondays AND charity AND healing…well, that’s when we start something big.

We here at The Monday Life are curious to see how much can be raised in a week, in an effort to quickly change the environment inside one of our six children's hospitals.