Many professionals always say they need a time for themselves once in a while. They know they do. And yet when caught up in the bustle of modern day grind, they can’t squeeze it intotheir schedule. A lot of times, family moments are being reduced to talks over mealtime orbanters before TV sessions or pre-sleep sweet nothings. Weekends are being eaten up by themore pressing necessities of this “survival of the fittest” culture. Under such routine, couplescan lose connection, and children can lose guidance.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure where that path can lead.
As my friend in high school puts it, the best way to do it is to do it. It is another way of saying,when there’s a will there’s a way. If we know that our lifestyle is already destroying the veryreason we are breaking our backs to earn – that is our family – then it makes no sense why wecannot break anything just to prevent that from happening.
Breaking Sundays
Break rules. Break your office. Break your church. Break someone’s nose. Whatever you needto do, bring back Sundays to your family. No one else. Nothing else. No excuses.
Delegate whatever task you need to do beyond your weekdays of work. Subcontract if you have to. It is not only because you have a duty to your family but because studies have beenmade that work beyond the 8 hours a day period is already overwork and thus unhealthy.Conversely, there are no other people who should be able to recharge and reinspire you andremind you why you are doing what you’re doing than your children.
Owning Saturdays
You may owe it to your loved ones to work harder or to your aspirations to reach further, but you also owe it to yourself to enjoy life. If you’re working your ass out getting what you thinkcan make you and your loved ones happy and yet you are miserable while at it, don’t you think you’re threading a futile road. The only way to succeed at anything is when you are at least aroused while doing it. When your work is taking over all of your time, chances are you are not aroused by anything anymore. What you are is an automaton, slaved to an ambition that may already be too high or too late for you to achieve in this lifetime.
Give Saturdays to yourself. The whole of it or a chunk of it, what’s important is you give yourself your due. That’s self-respect. That’s a good life.