It’s Monday morning. It’s time to go to work. Again. But instead of letting the days blur together, what if you were to pick out the highlights, the days that remind you why you always show up? Remembering you are part of something bigger might give you the energy you need to seize the day. A French press wouldn’t hurt either.

We had a chat with some of the Invisible Children Uganda staff about their favorite days on the job, and what inspires them about the work they do.

“The best day for me was the day I was hired,” says Quinto, head of security and also a Roadie advocate for Invisible Children during the KONY 2012 tour. “That was the best day to me because that confirmed to me that I was a staff of Invisible Children. And I love to be a staff of Invisible Children. What I like most is working to ensure that we improve the life of the war-affected children, because when we do that we are improving confidence in them. Definitely they will be a strong generation to improve the country of Uganda. So I feel excited about that.”

Florence (right) conducts an interview.

“One of the days was the day I interviewed a girl from Congo who had escaped from the LRA about two years ago,” says Florence Ogola, the Public Relations Manager at ICU. “When I saw the [Protection Plan] video the first time I thought ‘I really want to meet this girl.’ When I saw her in person I just wanted to hug her. She had that positivity about life. And the things she’d been through and the way she talked about them made me appreciate my life. I feel like it would have totally weighed down on me, but talking about her made me see how people can go through so much but still come out feeling positive.

“The other one was the time we traveled to Congo to open Centre Elikya (a rehabilitation center providing holistic care for children abducted by the LRA). There was this particular young boy. He was the youngest in the center. There was something about the way he was dancing. He was happy.

“Meeting people have this heart and want to help. I like that my life is spiced up; that I don’t do a routine every day.”