Surviving Weekends
Welcome to the one day at a time podcast where we forget about yesterday. We don't worry about tomorrow. It's what are we going to do today? This all matters because you've only ever had or will ever have the fantastic twenty four hours a day you're about to embark on. Hopefully this episode is going to give you some daily dose of wisdom that you can take action on today to improve your life.
Speaker 1:And remember, all it takes is one day at a time. Good morning everyone hope you're having a good morning now remember it's Friday but that doesn't mean you go mental right it doesn't mean that the week is done I'm gonna throw everything out the window doesn't mean, oh, that means now I can eat what I want. It's just another twenty four hours and Saturday, guess what, another twenty four hours. A common theme in the weekly check ins we get is like, how do I stay on track on weekends? First of all, is reframe what the weekend is.
Speaker 1:Like, I've been reading a book on capitalism, like trying to find out like, how is this set up of five days on two days off happened. And what happened was, it's insane. So like capitalism basically started in The UK, they were sending out ships to, you know, India and stuff to bring back spices. And they would have to finance these things and they make a profit off it. So you had like merchant capitalism.
Speaker 1:And then you had capitalism where, you know, you could buy shares in a company and you didn't have to actually trade the cash at the time you can, there was a stock exchange opened up. And then there was the capitalism of production, which is like the industrial revolution, right? So people are like, right, we can make like loads of clothing from all the imports we're gathering from the world, wool, the cotton, and you make garments out of it, we need to make this and that. So you are the capitalism. So they were basically saying to people because people didn't used to work, you know, that I was like, what will you do now?
Speaker 1:It was like people used to be they used to work for people's land. So basically, what I can what I understand from it is there'd be a Lord or someone with land and be like, you can you can live in this land, you can do this, you just got to do jobs for me. And it wasn't like a financial transaction. It was like, you do this and then you get land and you get housing or whatever it was. And then it changed to you do this job, I'll give you money.
Speaker 1:Then that's when it changed to like you had workers and then they were basically paying these workers to do the jobs. And back in the day, obviously not everybody had a clock or a watch and the government actually tried to tax clocks and watches because basically the employers were like rewinding the time back. So workers would long work more hours and stuff like that was going on. Anyway, so what happened is people started then having money in their pocket because they were working for cash as opposed to working for you know to live somewhere whatever. So basically it got to the point where the workers had to give them time off, right?
Speaker 1:So they had to give them time off. It kind of landed on that, you know, there would be like Saturday and Sunday off or just Saturday off. And then basically people like, right, so what what do we do with this time? We've got off, we got money, and that's where leisure capitalism come in. So the reason we got the weekend, the leisure side of things, the capitalism and spend money and go out and do stuff with the money you've earned all week.
Speaker 1:It comes from capitalism itself being like you've worked hard all week now let's make more and more let's make more money off you guys and let's make sure you spend our money in the weekends and other businesses so you can imagine these people who own the factories who probably out there hands and money in, you know, like, leisure activities where I don't know is bowling or whatever it would be, they would finance them and then it would spend the money there. It's kind of like you can see what's happening. So don't feel like you have to be part of this vicious cycle of work all week, spend your money in the weekend to make the most of your time off. That's when it's kind of like, I would say is a destructive mindset because you live in for the weekend and you live in to spend money in the weekend and typically what do we spend most of our money on food, of course, because food is amazing and delicious. But it's a good, long, a very long winded way of answering the question, but basically is to change your mindset on it.
Speaker 1:So do please change your mindset on it. It's just another twenty four hours. You can can eat what you want, right? Fit it into macros. If you want to go to maintenance on the weekends, that's absolutely fine.
Speaker 1:I'll check and be like, what's my maintenance? I'd rather go to maintenance on weekends and deficit in a week. Maybe we can put you on a bigger deficit in the week. It does still work out to one pound of fat loss a week. But maybe it is like on Monday to Thursday, you're on a bit less macros, and then you have a bit more on the weekends.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's a structure that works for you. Or maybe you like routine and you like the same things all the time. So that's not really. So the weekends come in, you don't have to go off the edge like you don't have to. You can still have you know, you go yoga tomorrow and you've got boxing on Sunday, you know, you got your mornings sorted in terms of activity, go for a walk after that, you know, cook a nice healthy meal, get your veggies in, meal prep if you can for the week coming up, make your life easier.
Speaker 1:If you're gonna cook your own meal on Sunday, for example, why not batch cook a lot of stuff ready for Monday and Tuesday as well and get that next week, the last week off to the best start. It's all about planning. And then you can do what you want to, you know, you can still enjoy. You don't know, like I think people think that to enjoy you have to like go wild and eat loads of food and drink loads of alcohol and spend loads of money. It's like you don't have to, that's what we've told.
Speaker 1:We don't have to believe it and the moment we stop believing it they're gonna panic. So that's it that's your tip for today coming up to the weekend and stay safe please everybody if you're going runs and stuff all the news the horrible news. So yeah, guys, enjoy your weekend. Let me know how how you've kind of well, I'm sending a form out, so I need you to let me know what the challenge has been like so far. So that'll be going out with you checking tomorrow.
Speaker 1:So would really, really appreciate feedback on the challenge. And you got like a week to fill out anything we do to improve. I know it's a bit Marmite with all the different stuff. But yeah, would those feedback forms make us do a better job to help and serve you. So fill them out, and I'll thank you forever.
Speaker 1:But have a good day. What's your one big thing? Let me know. Ta ta. And that's it.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Golf Leer. Hopefully, you understood something I said. I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through into your mind, and I want you to now action it today. I don't want you to think about tomorrow. I don't want you to think about yesterday.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast. I don't want you to think about going to another website. What I want you to do is as soon as this podcast ends, you will take action and make the most of today. Ground yourself today. Follow the one day at a time philosophy and your life will change.
