The Problem With Fridays
In most offices, or workplaces in general (referring to those that stick to a more typical M-F 9-5 model) start to dwindle down on their productivity the closer Friday approaches, and by the time Friday afternoon rolls around, everybody starts daydreaming about their weekend, socializing, or deferring tasks until “early next week”, instead of tackling them right then and there. Let us give you a simple yet effective tip on how to maximize your work week that may come as quite a shock: stop making a big deal out of Friday!
Yes, that’s right, we are encouraging all of you to adopt the following strategy and implement this approach to your work week. Now, we aren’t just referring to the concept of staying productive on your Friday, but dealing with the entire notion of Fridays as a whole. Friday is the most glorified work day of any and every work week, filled with eagerness, rainbows an unicorns, and the notion of the ever-impending weekend. The problem with making “Friday” such a big deal, is that it not only detracts from your productivity later on in the week, but also makes your weeks feel twice as long as a result of longing and desperately wishing that Friday would come quicker.
Stop making Friday something to work towards, or more special than every other day of your work week, and instead take your days one at a time, with no distractions leading you to pause and just wish that all of your work would go away and that Friday were here. This is a waste of your time, your co-workers’, and especially your employers. Making a big deal out of Friday does nothing but create a yearning sense of emptiness which is completely unnecessary and uncalled for. Why not just take your work week at a confident pace, deal with your tasks accordingly, and work hard the whole way through your Friday so that your Monday can be that much easier…it’s a full-circle whether you like it or not.
