At
the bank, the grocery store and other places, I get asked, "what are you doing
for the weekend? on Thursdays and Fridays, and on Mondays, it is, "what did you
do for the weekend?" and such.
I
create different answers just for the fun of it. Sometimes I say, "I'm going to
work because I have so much to do." With this I get stuff like, "oh, that's no
fun, or that's a bummer," etc. All of this seems to be based on the popular TGIF
(Thank God It's Friday) frame of mind, and with that there must be the Monday
Blues because the weekend is too short and then I have to go back to work. Based
on that it seems that Wednesday is the only day people are really at work.
Monday is a down day, Tuesday is recovering, Wednesday is work, Thursday is
preparation for the best day of the week, Friday, and TGIF is here at
last.
I
can relate to what they are going through, but I don't go through any of that
because I don't look at work as a necessary evil in order to do what I really
want to do. Instead, I just do what I want to do all the time pretty much. And
much of that time is what people call work, but it is a joy for me and not
drudgery. I guess that makes my life a long series of Friday-like days. And it
is because I have joy regardless of the day.
Where
does that come from that work and play are so different from one another? Was it
the Industrial Age? Working in an assembly plant doing the same thing over and
over until the 8-hour shift was up and you got to go home? Did anyone ever go to
that job with joy? Hmmmm. Maybe so, but we never heard about it.
Since
1997, I found a way to love what I do, set my own schedule, and have almost
complete time freedom. And, its not the fact that I'm self-employed now because
that has only been the last five years. I chose to be an "outside salesman"
rather than an "inside salesman" and to most salespeople, that is a frightening
move. But it's not really frightening at all. It is an opportunity to be your
own boss so to speak by leaving you totally in charge of your schedule. Do or do
not, it is all up to you.
But,
all that leads to what the real issue is: attitude. How we look at things. How
we plug into what other people say, think and do. We have a tendency to go along
with others when they are complaining about work or looking so forward to the
weekend all the time because we think it is friendly banter. It isn't. It
creates a habit of thought. It takes courage to stand on your own and not plug
into that mentality. Go your own way and learn to love what you do, release
yourself from the so called time constraints you used to think you were under,
and be your own boss instead of expecting that of others.
In
the end, it is purely a decision, a choice of thinking, a view of the world, and
creating your own reality. You choose all the time and you always have. Try
choosing the joy of doing what you love to do even if it is what you do now.
When we take our mind off the future and the past, all there is is now and that
is all we need to choose that we will enjoy ourselves and love what we are doing
and love the life we are living.
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