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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On a day-to-day basis, it can become easier and easier to get into a routine. Now while this may be good for managing life, and all that it involves, it can also make it much harder to find new experience.

Essentially, its easy to get consumed by one’s own world.

The key is to find time, and work into routine, to break the routine on occasion.

While this may seem counter-intuitive, its essential: days turn to weeks, which turn to months, and so on, all the while maintaining routine, but not learning anything new.

Find a way out and do something for yourself.

Maybe you’ve always wanted to learn to play guitar, or perhaps you haven’t yet explored all your city has to offer, who knows what your break from routine can be, but one must find a way out, to make time to experience something new.

Any one person can find a handful of things that they’ve wanted to do, but have been too busy, or too stuck to a schedule.

Don’t let these experiences pass you by, and even if they will be there tomorrow: go now. There’s no reason to wait, they’re there for you to experience, no time like the present.

Don’t get lost in your own world, remember there’s a whole world outside of yours just waiting for you.

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