Well today’s Friday, the day everyone seems to look forward to in the week.

Working for the weekend, to our time away from vocation, and spend some time doing what we really want.

Now, there are two problems here.

The first being: that there should be some joy in the work you do. Accomplishing something, and especially contributing to society all have their benefits for the ego. Its likely that this has been forgotten in the day-to-day shuffling of the business world, but try to remember why you got into it in the first place.

The second: the weekend just isn’t long enough.

I know the second point goes against what I just said, but there’s a reason for it:

We all need time away from work, and with all the stresses that burden us, we deserve more.

How about a four day work week?

There has been a push for this in recent reporting. The CBC wrote this article detailing how the shortened week inevitably saves the company money, due to lowered energy costs of shutting down the plant on the extra day.

The state of Utah did a yearlong experiment with the four day work week. They have found amazing success, with saving costs for the company and gas for their employees, such as in the CBC article, but also found 82% of the workers preferred the new schedule.

While these two examples involve a longer work day, but shortened work week, the salaries stay the same [at 40 hours a week for standard full time, 4 days a week, 10 hour days].

This keeps you at work longer during the day, but you get the work week done much quicker, with a larger pay-off as well.

My belief is that this will lower stress, increase employee morale [which it has shown in examples], and will also spark the economy, with an extra day for people to go out and spend money on their free time.

Families could possibly improve, with a whole extra day for family time, and making it easy to plan trips without taking time off.

It’s shown to work, and its preferred by employees, while saving employers money, why hasn’t this been done sooner?

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I know, its cliche, but too many people don’t do it, and end up dissatisfied.

To live a fulfilled life, one must make life fulfilling, and doing something you’re not passionate about is not fulfilling, no matter how much money is involved.

Too often have I met people, or known people, who follow a path due to their families pressure, or pressures of society.

It’s also amazing the amount of people going back to school. Much of this is to get ahead with their current endeavors, however, there’s still a great number who are just now realizing that they should follow their dreams.

It’s a shame when it happens late, because in a sense, much of that time before was wasted, where it could have been used to better natural abilities, and passions.

What I’m trying to say is that although what you want to do may not be as practical, money or otherwise, it’s more practical for one’s spirit and well-being.

One can be very rich, yet, not be happy. Those are the one’s who sold their dreams for what they thought would bring them happiness, but happiness is closely tied with self-worth.

Unless your passion is doing something that you don’t enjoy, a job can better be done by a person with passion for that field.

You’re selling yourself short by not taking advantage of what you love, too many lives have passed that way.

Don’t live for regrets, live for yourself and your passions.

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