This is a continuation of my last post Why I don’t like holidays. In the last post I said something I believe to be true, “You get two days off work. Not two days off life.”

This had always been true. How many of us are trapped and unhappy with our lives because ‘we live for the weekend.’ Is this really a fun life?  To work all week, earn your paycheque and blow it all on a weekend of escapism and short-term gratification, all to do it all over again? 

I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with the weekend, it’s actually very useful, a lot of us have our own weekend because we do shift work, work during the day on weekends and have different commitments. 

I’m talking about the idea and the concept that has up trapped in a cycle that creates unhappiness and a lack of drive and purpose. We aren’t designed to work Monday - Friday, eight hours a day on autopilot, that’s for robots. It’s against our nature.

I’m not a party or club person, never have, and never will be. I don’t drink alcohol, so I’d be pretty boring to be around in the club. I have worked in that industry and learned a lot and met some amazing people along the way. But I find it to be the biggest waste of time.

I see a lot of people spending thousands of dollars on bottle service in the club and buying drinks and trying to impress people they have never met and most likely won’t see again. And I’ve seen people while I’m behind the bar who have done this and not having the money to do so, they put it all on credit. They’re putting themselves in further debt to ‘have a good time’ to ‘ease down the stresses of life’. Sooner or later they’re going to have to repay that debt in more ways than just money.

It goes back to that famous line from Fight Club.

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy sh-- we don't need." —Tyler Durden

Now I’m not saying that you have to be grind grind hustle hustle 24/7 and go 2000% harder to create the life you want on the weekends. That’s unhealthy and you’ll burn out very quickly. Relentless ambition and working long hours can work against us. Leisure is drastically misunderstood. 

But how can we use our weekend to build the life we want to live? Where we look forward to every day and not some block of time in the future, to be more present living in the now? To have more time to ourselves, where can go for long walks in nature and seek beauty, take naps in the afternoon without worrying about a deadline and dine out with friends and family. 

We can;

• Live below your means to create financial freedom 

• Build a unique combination of skills that gets you paid and can take 180 days off of the year.

• Make money through the Internet 

I’m not going to list every possible way, you understand the point. But I hope I gave you the idea that you are in control of your life and what you do. You can create and build your own schedule and take time off for rest and leisure when you want to. Not when someone else tells you. Now this will take a lot of time and hard work and experimentation. It’s not meant to be easy and it’s very scary.

But on the other side fear is everything we want.  

Build a lifestyle where you can take 180+ days off.

“Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Until next time,

Brody

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