Earn it.

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Earn Your SaturdaysJanuary 13th

Good morning, friend. There’s a lot of reasons to get after today. And also a lot of reasons to let today go. Friday can be a great reason to let your hair down, or it can be the ax hanging over your head, announcing to the world that everything that was to be done this week should now be done. For all the shit we give Monday, it’s a blank slate. Another chance to get back after it. Friday, well, it’s hard to feel the same kind of optimism. Hard to get away from the ups or downs of the week. Hard to think about anything besides waiting for the hands of the clock to tick on over to quitting time. But what kind of madman can really keep their foot on the gas pedal for 5 straight days of the week? Take each one on as if it was a new, complete, full day, disconnected from a week of struggles or successes?In his memoir Greenlights, Matthew McCaughnahey talks about earning your Saturdays—doing enough work in the week that by the time Saturday morning rolls around, there’s nothing left to do but cartoons and cereal. Not guilting out over wanting to spend half a day in your boxers by the TV. Or a whole day. But putting in enough work before that day to earn it—instead of trying to take the break first and spending your weekend playing catchup. So maybe the answer for today isn’t grandiose, and maybe it’s not quitting early either.Maybe the answer for today is: what do you need to get done to earn your tomorrow? So that when your head leaves the pillow in the morning, there’s nothing from the last day bleeding into that one?Journal Prompt: What's one thing from the last week you're grateful for?