Happy Friday everyone!

Today is an slightly different feeling Friday. I’m sure most of you all had off earlier in the week with New Years. That probably made this entire three day week free fairly easy. But Friday is still Friday, the most enjoyable day of the work week. Why is that? Friday is still a full eight hour day. Why should an individual isolated day of the week become easier or harder because of the days around it?

The reason is that us silly humans are slaves to perception. Most of us have trouble waking up to go to work or to do chores. I’m sure most of you all hit the snooze button a few times on most days. However, I’ve never heard of anyone hitting the snooze button to go to the beach or the amusement park, no matter how early the rising time. The only difference is our anticipation of future events.

How does this anticipation affect our lives? Tuesday and Wednesday are known as the most productive work days. Mondays are slow because we’re coming off the weekend. Thursdays and Fridays are slow because most people are already focused on the weekend. In a way we lose out on productivity three out of five days per week. For what gain? Does thinking about the weekend help us enjoy the weekend more? Probably not. If anything, we may enjoy our weekend less when it doesn’t turn out to be as fun as we had hoped.

Zig Ziglar said that most people think about play while they’re at work, and think about work when they’re at play, so all day regardless of what they are doing, they are never really at work nor play. Instead they waste their entire day. I couldn’t agree more. Today I’m going to continue pretending it’s Tuesday. Then when this Tuesday is done, I’ll go straight to fully enjoying my Saturday. Thank you very much.