Start your weekend early

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Cultivate a weekend vibe that starts Friday during the workday

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.9	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:12.7	Good morning.
0:14.6	This is Laura.
0:16.6	Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
0:19.6	Today's tip is to start your weekend early.
0:24.3	By treating the entire day of Friday as part of the weekend, at least mentally,
0:31.5	you might be able to make this day feel more special and more fun.
0:37.9	So I tend to be responsible for making the weekend schedule in my family.
0:43.1	On a recent weekend, I saw that Saturday and Sunday involved a lot of driving kids around,
0:49.2	and not a whole lot of things that were going to be fun for me.
0:53.3	Sometimes that is just life. But then, before I
0:57.1	started feeling sorry for myself, I looked at what was happening Friday and remembered that I was
1:03.2	meeting a friend for lunch and I had scheduled a massage right before the usual end of my workday.
1:10.5	Saturday and Sunday weren't going to be particularly
1:12.8	amazing. Indeed, I was going to be working for about two hours on Sunday afternoon, but I was
1:18.5	certainly having some fun. I was just starting my weekend fun, early. Now, I realized that some
1:26.5	people don't have any flexibility during their Friday work schedules,
1:30.3	though a lot of people listening to this podcast probably do. Even if you need to be at your workplace
1:36.4	all day, though, you might try thinking that the weekend starts on Friday, and think about what
1:41.7	that might inspire. For instance, you might ask a work friend to go to lunch with you.
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