Are you living for the weekend, as well? Congratulations. You are wasting over 71% of your life. Okay, lets just get the exact percentage
Right, so you are wasting about 71.43% of your life. However, you should find solace in the fact that most of the human race is stuck in the same rut. Shared pain is somehow reduced, right?
So, there we are, tons of people around the world are wasting over 71% of their lives and cannot do anything about it.
Or is it?
Can we not do something to stop this egregious wastage of our lives?
Let’s see what we can do to stop living for the weekend only and then repeat the cycle:
1. Find a job that you like if not love
Here is the thing. There is no ideal job. Jobs are designed by employers to suit their needs and not the employees’ needs. You need to find some sort of a balance where you at least not hate the job. If you don’t hate it, then you may not want to keep waiting for the weekend to live, and find some joy during the week too.
Hatred is a strong emotion. Why would you go so far to experience it in your job?
Try to take up a job, even if at a lesser salary where you can pleasantly spend your time. You should feel that you are using 7/7 of your life. 5/7th is huge wastage. I will keep repeating 5/7th in this article to irritate the hell out of you.
It’s almost the whole of your life, because if you waste 5/7th of your life, you would waste the weekend feeling sad about the 5/7th that’s going wasted. That ways, the whole 100% will go wasted.
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2. Start a side hustle to stop living for the weekend
This is quite hard if you think 5/7th of your life is being wasted. If you are waiting for the weekends all the time, or the end of your work days, you are depleting emotional and intellectual energy.
At the end of the workday, you would find it quite hard to focus on a side hustle if you are in the hatred zone during the work day. You have to be at least in the “like” zone.
We deplete energy faster, when we feel sad and meaningless. When we feel happy, like doing an activity like dancing, we don’t easily get mentally tired because we are having fun.
3. Try to make your job fun
Like we said, no job is 100% fun, unless you have designed it yourself. However, while you spend time at your job, you need to find ways to have some fun, so your days are not dry and dead. If you have a feeling that you have had some fun, you will come home in a better mood, and be willing to work on a side hustle, than otherwise.
You need to find ways to have fun:
- Make jokes about the mundane nature of the job
- Crack jokes with your colleagues
- Make friends with your colleagues and go eating/dancing with them
You get the drift. Do something that makes your job feel like fun at some level. We can bear things when they are fun than otherwise.
4. Spend some time understanding yourself to stop living for the weekend
One of the reasons jobs suck is because most people don’t really know what they want. It is possible to find jobs that are aligned to one of your passion/interest areas, but if you don’t quite know what you are interested in, you will take up any job that pays money.
So, make the time to invest in self-awareness. Once you understand yourself, and your strengths/weaknesses, you would be able to align work that you do, with who you are as a person.
That’s really the right way to find or create work in the world, from a happiness perspective.
5. If you have the courage, and some balance in your bank, take the leap
This one is really hard, and far easier said than done. If you think you have some time on your hand to try at an area of passion that you have identified which you just may be able to turn into a commercial success, quit the job, and allow yourself sometime to make it a commercial success.
In order to do this, you must have some financial cushion, either yours, or coming from your family. Taking loans is not advisable since you have to pay a high level of interest on them, and trying your hand at your passion is already a huge risk.
If you succeed, your life will be 7/7 successful, and you will be happy. YOU WILL BE HAPPY!
If you don’t succeed right away, going back will be harder, but you would know that you tried and would have learnt something on the way, which you can hopefully use at a later point in your life.
What you learn is never wasted, if you intend to use it.
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Alright, we are done with the list.
Let us spend some time thinking about why is it important to keep waiting and living for the weekends.
Monday to Friday are 5 long days.
You see, when you are not enjoying yourself, time runs really slow. On the contrary, time runs fast when you are having fun. So, if you have a job, you totally despise and feel no connection towards, those 5 days would be quite painful for you.
Can you bear the pain?
I can hear some if you say, “we have responsibilities and no real talent.”
All of us likely have some area of passion. Like we mentioned in the piece above somewhere, that self-awareness would help you in understand what makes sense to you from a work perspective. It may also help you in identifying what you are truly passionate about.
So, invest in self-awareness and identifying areas of passion.
It is your life that is at stake, and if you are wasting 5/7th of it, you are wasting the whole of it, because by the time 5/7th is over, you are dreading the next set of 5/7th.
One life. Do something.
In Conclusion- Stop living for the weekend
The point I am making is that it is not fair to waste over 70% of your life because you started in the wrong direction, because you didn’t have any guidance.
Now you do. I didn’t have any guidance either in my teens or early 20’s and so I am sitting here writing this blog piece in the thick of the night (it’s 2 am and I am 43!), hoping that one day, my blog will become a source of inspiration for thousands of people to find their happiness. While you are at it, pray for me too.
Like I said, do not give up on your happiness. One life. Do something.
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Love,
Amarvani
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