Hate Mondays? Align Your Work with Your Purpose

Do you live for the weekends?

Do you get the dreaded Sunday night blues?

Much of this is often how you feel about the work you do.

Does your work drain you? Or does it energise you?

Well, here’s some food for thought…

“…to most people in the West, their everyday life is a heavy load from which only Sundays can release them. Sunday is no longer a day of rest but has become an escape into the unreal, a deceptive forgetfulness behind which, doubly heavy and threatening, the “weekday” lurks.

To the Arabs (Muslims), on the other hand, Friday did not seem to be an opportunity to forget their workdays. Not that the fruits of life fell easily and without effort into the laps of these people, but simply because their labours, even the heaviest, did not seem to conflict with their personal desires. Routine, for the sake of routine, was absent; instead, there was an inner contact between a working man and his work: and so respite became necessary only if one got tired. Such a consonance between man and his work must have been envisaged by Islam as the natural state of affairs and, therefore, no obligatory rest had been prescribed for Friday.” — Muhammad Asad, The Road to Mecca

Muhammad Asad, on his famous ‘Road to Mecca’ travels