TGIF…
Thank Goodness it’s Friday! I hear this all the time from people. It’s meant as a celebration of the weekend, but it really alludes to something else. Many of Americans don’t like their jobs. They feel like their work isn’t worthwhile, and their ‘true lives’ begin on Friday night and end on Monday morning.
But is this really the right way to live? If you think about it, if you’re only living for the weekends, you’re only truly living 29% of the time. So if you live to be 100 years old, only 29 years of your life are going to be worthwhile and 71 years will be lived in vain. 71 years is a long time.
The solution isn’t to stop working! Work is important because it allows us to meet our fundamental needs and improve the world that we live in. This is true for both nonprofit and for-profit work. So be thankful that today’s Friday, but recognize that today is an opportunity to do great things. You don’t have to wait until 5pm to live.
Have a great Friday!
