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Thank God it’s Friday! OMG weekend. FRIYAY! TGIF!!
Let’s add other acronym to the above. STFU PLS.
BS.
WHAT BS!
Allow us to take an empirical approach to breaking down the TGIF mentality. Ready for an experiment? Did you put your protective goggles and gloves on? This could be some highly explosive and flammable stuff we are dealing with right now! We might have to apply water to the burned area here.
I hate 3/4 of my life!
Let’s assume you work from Monday to Friday and get two days off. This is how a typical week looks like to an average Joe or Joette:
Monday – Back to work after the weekend 🙁
Tuesday – After Monday 🙁
Wednesday – Hump day. Getting closer to Friday, but still 🙁
Thursday – One day before Friday :I
Friday – TGIF! Last day of the week OMG! 🙂
Saturday – Weekend 🙂
Sunday – Still weekend 🙂 but not for long! Back to work tomorrow, so… 🙁
Note: You can shuffle these around depending on where you are in the world. In Qatar, the equivalent of a Friday in America is a Thursday and the equivalent of an American Sunday is a Saturday. Same same as they say in Qatar!
So after my comprehensive research and mathematical calculations (I failed Calculus in uni and withdrew the second time around btw! :D), we discover that you hate 5/7 days of your life each week and only enjoy 2 (the weekend).
So that means that you spend about ¾ of your life in anticipation of a third. In other words, you hate the majority of your life! You hate your job, your career, your university and where you are in life. That’s even sadder than the above week breakdown. Now is the time to apply water to the burned area 🙁
You have to earn the right to say TGIF. If you worked your ass off that week and gave it your all then you can say TGIF. But for the most part, looking back at the week that passed we all know that we could have done so much more than we did. So none of us have earned the right to say TGIF. I include myself in that equation.
2) You do the minimum, yet expect the maximum.
Minimum effort = maximum results? That’s not how it works and you don’t need an A in calculus to understand this mathematical and logical fallacy (said the guy who failed Calculus). You expect to do the minimum with as little effort as possible and want to reap massive rewards. It sounds great when you think about it? But we both know that this is not how things work. If you want amazing results then you have to put as much effort into what you are doing as possible. 10X FTW! Imagine planting a seed that needs a liter of water every day (okay. It’s an exaggerated amount. A liter will probably kill the plant, but let’s assume that it needs a liter of water every day. Hey. Listen. I ain’t Old MacDonald. I don’t have a farm). So back to our seed, it needs a liter of water every day to grow into a beautiful tree with little birdies chirping on it. However, the TGIF mentality whispers into your ear seductively: “Hey… How YOU doin’? This is TGIF… Did you miss me? How about just watering the plant with as little effort as possible. Just use that 250ml cola bottle over there. That’s all you need!”
Do this for 5 years and your little seed, has turned into a raisin that was probably eaten by a squirrel or rat and now turned into organic compost 🙁 Speaking of shitty situations btw…
3) TGIF gave me diarrhea
By TGIF, I mean the restaurant, as well as the mentality. Yes, I got food poisoning from TGI Fridays, as did 2 of my friends. Both the restaurant and the mentality gave me diarrhea. Physical and mental diarrhea. I was not satisfied with the quality, nor the quantity of my output (this sentence has many layers to it 😀 ) In other words, the TGIF mentality (and restaurant) gave me shitty results that I was not happy with and this caused me a lot of pain in my life (literally).
So what did I learn from this experience? First off, I am never gonna eat at TGI Fridays and I am never gonna feed myself the TGIF mentality because it made my life very shitty and meaningless.
So, Sami what’s the solution?
Change TGIF to TGIM!
Take back the 3/4 of your life that you lost because you hate it! Embrace Mondays! Switch up your attitude at work, at uni and wherever else that you are. It all comes down to mentality. Once you change your mentality, your entire life will change! Then when it does, contact me! Don’t waste 5 days of the week being unhappy so you can be happy for just 2 days. Always be happy and grateful!
Hope you guys enjoy this episode!
With Love,
Sami