The O’Jays had a song called Living for the Weekend. In the chorus they sang “Living for the weekend, cause that’s when I party down”. Today is Friday, the start of the weekend, everybody is feeling really fine, can’t wait to walk out the doors of their jobs this evening and get the weekend poppin after going through an entire week of drudgery. Are you one of those people? Was this week drudgery for you? Are you living for the weekend? If so, let’s put the brakes on that thinking.

In America, we for the most part follow the five day work week. Monday through Friday, we head to our place of business, do our jobs and fly out the door on Friday with the expectation that what we see, feel experience Friday night to Sunday night has got be better than the Monday through Friday grind. That doesn’t have to be the case however. If the grind is really grinding on your nerves, then maybe it’s time to take a look at your job. Is there anything that can be changed to make it more fulfilling? Can a change of pace, a change of order, or additional responsibilities give you a Friday feeling every day at the job? Maybe you’re don’t think you’re in a position to make any real changes in the way you work, because you work on a line, have certain numbers that you have to meet or have other reasons that require you to do things in a certain order.  If that’s the case have you talked to anyone about a move? Why not?

Finally if you’ve exhausted all possibilities in changing the way your work or the things you work on, then maybe it’s time to change your mind.  Is it time to do something new altogether? What do you want to do and do you have the skills to do it? Can you obtain those skills if you don’t? You most certainly can. The bottom line is that the way we approach our work and the enjoyment or lack thereof obtained from it has everything to do with what’s going on in our head. We don’t have to just live for the weekend if we make up our minds today to do things differently, take a new approach, add to our knowledge base and appreciate each day that we have to go to a job. Doing so will open up all sorts of possibilities.  Are you willing to test it out for yourself?