I love Mondays! I also look forward to Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Are you one of those people who loathe Monday mornings and the beginning a new workweek? Do you live for the weekend? Sometime around noon on Wednesday does a smile break across your face as you declare, “It’s “hump” day!” You can’t wait for Friday morning to roll around and cheer with other co-workers TGIF (Thank God it’s Friday)!  Do you daydream at work and count the days until it’s time for your annual vacation?

If Monday through Friday is a grind for you and you’re miserable and can’t wait to clock out for the weekend, you’re not living life, you’re simply subsisting.  If out of a 168-hour week you’re miserable 120 of those hours, that means 71% of the time you lack joy, meaning, satisfaction, and purpose in life. Something is clearly out of whack and balance. You need a gut check. Ok, so maybe right now you don’t have your dream job, aren’t particularly satisfied with your career path, the culture isn’t the greatest, co-workers are challenging, your boss is difficult to deal with and your salary isn’t where you would like it to be. But doesn’t it make sense that if 71% of the time you are mired in misery and mediocrity, that something needs to change, and you are misguided and mismanaging your life?

One of my all-time favorite quotes when it comes to work and life-balance comes from author Seth Godin. He says, “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” That’s a quote worth printing out, framing, and hanging on a wall or on your refrigerator. Godin is spot on, and what he is getting at is not so much changing your current situation and circumstances but challenging what’s going on between your ears. Zig Ziglar says, “Your attitude, Not Your Aptitude, Will Determine Your Altitude.”

Perhaps you need to reevaluate, reassess, and reorient your understanding of the role and responsibility of work.  Work is commanded by God, work is honorable, work is satisfying, work is meaningful, work is good. God doesn’t use people to get work done, as much as He uses work to get people done.  Do your work as unto the Lord, don’t fall for the trap of quiet quitting doing as little as possible. Instead work to your full potential, perform your work with excellence. Serve others, make relationships a priority.

What are you looking forward to doing on weekends that you can’t do Monday through Friday if you manage life well? That is unless your weekends consist primarily of partying, promiscuity, and watching professional sports, in which case your priorities are skewed. Understand trials in life will come, accept ebbs and flows, seasons of life. However, you can experience joy, happiness and meaning every day. Live with purpose, live on purpose, at work, home, and in every other arena of life, not just 29% of the time but seven days a week 24/7.

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