If you're the kind of person who hates Mondays, I've done some math for you. The average life expectancy in the United States is about 78-years-old, meaning you have 4,056 weeks to be alive in total. That's it, 4,056. And if you're reading this post, you have less than 4,056 because you're not a newborn. Let's look at the math and see what you've got left.
If you're 30 years old, you've used 1,560 of your 4,056 weeks and that's not too bad, it leaves you 2,496 weeks. But know this: You're almost 40 percent through all of the weeks you'll ever have. You’ve already used up a lot of weeks.
If you're 40, you've used 2,080 weeks leaving you 1,976 weeks. Congratulations, you're already on the back half. At 40 years old, you actually may be a little bit past the midpoint. You've got about 49 percent of your weeks remaining at this point.
If you're exactly 50 years old, you've got 2,600 weeks already under your belt, leaving you 1,456 or about 36 percent of your weeks remaining.
If you're 60, I'm sad to report that you've used 3,120, leaving you a mere 936 Mondays, or 23 percent of the Mondays you’ll ever see. You've used them up and so, you're running out of weeks very quickly.
So, you want to take care of your Mondays and your Tuesdays and your Wednesdays. I'm not trying to be morbid here, but I do want you to recognize that every single Monday that you have is a gift. You get very few of them, and they tend to run out very, very quickly. There's no do-overs, there's no chance for a repeat, you can't call for a mulligan, and you don't get any of these Mondays back.
So, what you have to do is look at every single Monday and decide, “Am I going to do purposeful, meaningful work?” At the end of every Sunday newsletter, I say, “Do good work.” This means two things. First, do high-quality work, but even more than that, do something good. Do something meaningful, do something purposeful, because you don't have a lot of time here on earth. You were put here to make some sort of a difference. you have to get started now because you're going to run out of Mondays and Tuesdays and Fridays.
Every day is a gift, make sure you treat it as such. Don't hate on Monday. Don't hate on Tuesday. All the days are wonderful, they're a gift. Make sure you treat 'em that way.
