A Different Kind of Black Friday

Mike Vardy
About Time
Published in
1 min readNov 27, 2020
Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash

Black Friday hasn’t always been about holiday shopping.

Back in 1869, the term was coined after the U.S. gold market crashed. It rose from the ashes in the 1950s when Philadelphia police adopted the phrase to describe the chaos that occurred from people flooding the series for the Army-Navy football game.

It wasn’t until the 1980s where Black Friday settled on what it has become ever since: a chance for businesses to entice shoppers to buy holiday gifts in an effort to create profit.

What if we changed what the phrase meant once again this year?

What if instead of trying to help businesses work their way into the black, you worked to put your own affairs in the black. Things like your to do list, your disorganized computer files, your overflowing mobile apps, and so on?

Wouldn’t that make Black Friday brilliant?

Give it a try. Try to get your to do list in the black. This free course I’ve put together will help.

It might just be the best gift you can give yourself this holiday season.

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Mike Vardy
About Time

Family man, productivity strategist, creator of TimeCrafting, founder of Productivityist. Here's what I'm doing now: http://productivityist.com/now