You might be part of the average – living life like everyone else. Every morning, your sleep is interrupted by the alarm clock. You haul yourself out of bed to ensure you aren’t late for your mediocre job where you work tirelessly for 8+ hours. Upon arriving home, you are drained of motivation, with only enough energy to flick on the TV. This is how most people are living.

So when do you get to enjoy yourself? Retirement? That’s too far away, and you will be old and frail by that point. So for most people, their retreat from the unenjoyable working life comes after their 5 days of work. Weekends are the light at the end of the tunnel. The 2 prized days that make the whole working week feel worth it. Or do they?

Saturday and Sunday might well be the only thing you look forward to during the week. Two days where you can finally relax, where you can finally enjoy yourself.

Yet the weekend rolls around and it’s as disappointing as ever. Hours sprawled in front of the TV with cheap takeaway food and little social interaction. Or perhaps an arrangement with a friend for coffee – is this all that life amounts to? For most people, yes.

If you feel insulted by this description of a typical person’s life, I urge you to keep reading. This advice applies to you.

See, some people wander through life with an unshakeable feeling that their life is meant for more. These people aren’t content with a strategy of sacrificing 5 days for a mediocre 2, every week for the next 40 years. After all, we have limited time on this planet and there are so many opportunities in our modern world. A life behind a desk seems like a terrible waste for these people.

If you identify with this group, understand that living like this isn’t your fault. Society has conditioned you to believe that this is the correct way to live. To make matters worse, everyone around you has undergone the same conditioning. So everyone around you expects you to live like this.

This life structure is not optimal for health, happiness, relationships, or productivity. It is a construct created by society and is only optimal for the CEOs that you work for. Do you think our hunter-gatherer ancestors hunted for food from 9 AM – 5 PM for 5 days a week? Do you think they lounged about for the remaining 2? Of course not!

Humans aren’t designed to live this way. The sooner you accept that ‘Saturday’ and ‘Sunday’ don’t exist, the more successful you will be.

So why is the idea of weekends such a bad thing in itself then? The Government introduced them to create a way of living that will benefit its economy. One that extracts the greatest output from its workers while still being pleasant enough to avoid outrage. This is the concept behind the modern workweek. Think about it, if people were suddenly expected to work 7 days a week, there would be outrage. But 5 days? Most are fine with that.

The question is, do you want to be stuck in this perpetual cycle of 5 days working and 2 days rest? Do you want your potential and ambition to be crushed by the wearing nature of this lifestyle?

The only way to break free is by untangling the societal conditioning implanted in your subconscious. The first step is to erase the idea of weekends and workdays and treat each day as an opportunity to progress toward your goals. This means sacrificing your 2 days of ‘fun’ and investing that time into learning a skill – or developing a business – that can increase your income.

Because without this sacrifice, you can never build a life that leads to time, location, and financial freedom. Typical jobs are too fatiguing and time-consuming for you not to use your weekends.

While it may seem like I’m telling you to work harder for longer, the real purpose of this advice is to shift your mindset. To break the limiting belief that your life has to be structured into ‘weekdays’ and ‘weekends’. After all, the ultimate goal is to build a life in which you can treat all days like weekends.

Yet how can you expect to reach this point if you still spend weekends with friends or binge-watching Netflix shows?

This is delaying instant gratification in its most macro form. If you use your weekends correctly, you can transform your life far more than you may realize.