Monday Through Friday or Day by Day?
How do you live?
Weekends are so quintessentially American that there is an entire subculture celebrating Friday: hashtags and memes, a horrible Rebecca Black song, and a restaurant chain.
This fondness for Friday stems from the traditional workweek, which emerged from the need to accommodate both Jews’ and Christians’ sacred days of rest. Over time, the five-day workweek became solidified in most industries (except retail, which famously schedules its workers as willy-nilly as possible) and Americans have generally organized their lives around a 9–5 schedule. The weekend represents those glorious two days where you can do whatever you’d like (unless you work retail or food service).
Unfortunately, this represents a problem for productivity, especially if you have a side hustle or creative streak. The appeal of a responsibility-free weekend belies the fact that it’s simply not feasible to get it all your personal stuff in two days. Between chores, errands, relaxation, socialization, and passion projects, you’re looking at a serious need for a Time-Turner, and you’e apt to burn out before you can even hit the pool!
Consider changing your approach to the week. Here are some ways to stop living for the weekend and start living every day to the max.
