Pick some physical activity that requires your attention. Playing left field in softball might not do the trick. Any game or activity that is constant - basketball, tennis, even ping-pong, any activity that requires your mostly undivided attention will do. Now do it regularly. Have a set game every week. If you set-it, you will look forward to it. So on Monday when you are stressed and in need of an escape, and you know you have your game on Wed - I bet you will feel better jut knowing you have something to look forward to. Then you will feel better on Thursday because you had your escape - enxt thing you know, it's the weekend.

I don't watch much TV. I find TV for the most part 'dumb'. I end up just sitting there half paying attention, and half zoning out. My mind end's up on other things and I end up thinking about things that I should be doing instead of sitting there doing nothing. In sports (or the gym or any activity that engages your brain) you have to focus on the tas kat hand, you do not have the ability to think about things that are not nec. at that moment in time. Going to the gym in the morning let's me start the day clear headed and relaxed.