Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to start your weekend early. By treating the
Speaker 1: entire day of Friday as part of the weekend, at
Speaker 1: least mentally, you might be able to make this day
Speaker 1: feel more special and more fun. So I tend to
Speaker 1: be responsible for making the weekend schedule in my family.
Speaker 1: On a recent weekend, I saw that Saturday and Sunday
Speaker 1: involved a lot of driving kids around and not a
Speaker 1: whole lot of things that were going to be fun
Speaker 1: for me. Sometimes that is just life. But then, before
Speaker 1: I started feeling sorry for myself, I looked at what
Speaker 1: was happening Friday and remembered that I was meeting a
Speaker 1: friend for lunch, and I had scheduled a massage right
Speaker 1: before the usual end of my workday. Saturday and Sunday
Speaker 1: weren't going to be particularly amazing. Indeed, I was going
Speaker 1: to be working for about two hours on Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: but I was certainly having some fun. I was just
Speaker 1: starting my weekend fun early. Now I realized that some
Speaker 1: people don't have any flexibility during their Friday work schedules,
Speaker 1: though a lot of people listening to this podcast probably do.
Speaker 1: Even if you need to be at your workplace all day, though,
Speaker 1: you might try thinking that the weekend starts on Friday
Speaker 1: and think about what that might inspire. For instance, you
Speaker 1: might ask a work friend to go to lunch with you.
Speaker 1: You might deliberately leave some open space to work on
Speaker 1: your favorite projects. Maybe you would choose upbeat music or
Speaker 1: a favorite funny podcast to listen to on your commute.
Speaker 1: Both ways, you might choose more fun activities for your breaks,
Speaker 1: reading a good book instead of scrolling around online. You
Speaker 1: are cultivating a weekend vibe early. If you work at
Speaker 1: home on Fridays, which post pandemic I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people do, then you have more options. Think about
Speaker 1: what could make the day feel special and a little
Speaker 1: more fun. Maybe you plan to stop working around four
Speaker 1: pm to go for a run or a walk. You
Speaker 1: could take a shorter lunch break to make that possible.
Speaker 1: Or you could work three to five pm but take
Speaker 1: a longer lunch break. Go have a little adventure, go
Speaker 1: peru as a bookstore, take a favorite midday exercise class.
Speaker 1: If your spouse is also working from home, have lunch together,
Speaker 1: or if your kids are taking the bus home, you
Speaker 1: could both stop at four and have a happy hour
Speaker 1: drink together, especially if your weekend features a lot of
Speaker 1: have to dos. Starting the weekend vibe on Friday during
Speaker 1: the workday can make life feel a lot more in joyable.
Speaker 1: If you have kids, your kids are probably somewhere else,
Speaker 1: whether at school or daycare or with the sitter, so
Speaker 1: you might actually have more flexibility for your personal fun
Speaker 1: on Friday than you would on Saturday or Sunday. And
Speaker 1: even if you don't have young kids, there is something
Speaker 1: different about Fridays. People who travel for work are often
Speaker 1: back on Fridays, and in the office, people who work
Speaker 1: later Monday through Thursday often work shorter hours on Friday.
Speaker 1: I have seen that in my time dairy studies from
Speaker 1: casual Fridays to work from home Fridays. Many workplaces already
Speaker 1: treat Friday as a separate matter from the usual Monday
Speaker 1: to Thursday routine, So why not acknowledge that think about
Speaker 1: what you could do to make Friday during the day
Speaker 1: feel more like the weekend, even if you are working
Speaker 1: a full day. If you do that, you'll have more
Speaker 1: fun in your life the weekend will feel longer and
Speaker 1: that is rarely a bad thing. In the meantime, this
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast
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