18d ago in Words of Wisdom
Crushing A Tuesday (4 mins)
A really cool concept I came across is the idea that you want your average Tuesday to look the way most of your life does.
For a large part of my adult life I had been living for the next weekend, or gearing towards the next holiday or break from my life. A chance to get away and escape.
I read Seneca’s Moral Letters when I was 20 years old, it was off the back of a rough year. I wasn’t happy with my job, I had a turbulent relationship and I was looking for a break from my life. I mean this in the literal sense, I wanted respite from the very existence I had constructed for myself.
Seneca’s quote goes like this: “All this hurrying from place to place won't bring you any relief, for you're bringing with you your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.” (Letter CIV)
This thought echoes one of the best ideas I’ve heard in the last few years “your life is not margaritas on a beach, that happens now and then, those are exceptions (Peterson, 2017).”
Your life is the breakfast, lunch and dinner you have with your parents, or friends, or girlfriend. Your life is the conversations you have, the ideas you share, the love you give. Your life is how your boss and your colleagues treat you each and everyday. It’s the work you complete and the goals you work towards. Your life is the gym you go to, it’s the journey you take each and every morning and each and every night. It’s the walk, or the drive, or the bus, tram or train. The mundane tasks which you complete, the cooking, the getting dressed, the cleaning and tidying, the laborious shop. It’s the average Tuesday. That’s your life.
There’s two ideas I’ve found useful. 1. From Foster Wallace: You get to choose how you view the mundanity of life, if you see daily tasks as chores, you’ll find that you see the majority of your existence is a duty and not a life lived. 2. You get to make those mundane, everyday chores into something more. If you iron out the people you associate with, the words you speak and the goals you orient towards then you’ll find your average Tuesday is something worth waking up for.
I’ll end with this:
“When I think about the days I look back on and I think ‘today was a good day,’ invariably, it’s the same few things, it’s: I worked very hard on something I thought was worth doing, I worked out, and I spent time with people I enjoyed being around (Hormozi, 2023).
“What you should aim for in life, is your average Tuesday.”
So it begs the question, what does next Tuesday look like for you?
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Crushing A Tuesday (4 mins)
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