Welcome to Let it be easy with Susie Moore.

Well, well, my friend. I saw something interesting on Instagram last night. In fact, it wasn't that interesting, but it evoked something kind of surprising within me just for a few minutes and I thought,

aha, there is a lesson in this.

A friend of mine posted a video about her husband coming home from work on a Friday and you could just feel that excited after work Friday feeling he had wine, they were prepping dinner together, and it was like,

ah, the start of the weekend, and you could just feel the energy of, I feel like it's a feeling of relief,

a feeling of anticipation, a feeling of joy, because there's the satisfaction of

completing a week at work, and also at the beginning of two whole three days, where there's

no alarm, there's no structure, it's do as you please, or really that's the goal, right? Do as we please.

And what surprised me was that I had this slight pang of missing that after work on Friday feeling.

Now before I was a life coach, I've been a life coach now full time for 10 years, running my business for 10 years. But before that I had my career in the tech sector for even longer, right, longer than a decade. And every Friday it would start around 3 or 4 o'clock I'd start to just

feel this euphoria like the weekend's coming.

Oh what am I going to do? Am I going out for dinner? Am I going to happy hour? Are we going away this weekend? What is happening?

And that feeling, that Friday feeling comes from really having the structure of a 9-to-5 job, which I haven't had for a long time now.

And what's funny is that pang of missing that Friday feeling? It reminds me of the truth that we can miss something and also not

want it. This can also be true of people in a lot of cases. Maybe there's a friend who you're no longer in contact with, for whatever reason, and a funny joke comes to mind or a memory or maybe there's an old actor that you see on TV and you both used to have a crush on him and part of you wants to even maybe even text this friend but it's just not appropriate it just doesn't feel right anymore and yet

you can still have that pang of missing the person like I have this pang of my after work on Friday feeling that I randomly didn't even know that I missed because like when you work for yourself it's very different right there are no clear lines you have a lot more

freedom you're also kind of look I'm recording this on a Saturday morning for example but

there's no oh Friday's, now it's me time,

it's me time all the time, but then I don't have that vibe,

that excitement, when there's space that opens up

that's really dictated by somebody else.

So maybe in your life right now there are pangs for something or someone that you miss and you can acknowledge them you can love that part of yourself you can lean into it and know that you are still doing life right I feel the space sometimes when I look at certain countries that I've lived in,

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