The Friday High, The Sunday Low, and the Illusion of What's Next
Future Rise Newsletter #23 | July 15-2025
Ever notice how Friday afternoons feel lighter, even if you're still stuck
at a job you don't enjoy? There's a buzz in the air, a sense of
playfulness, because the weekend is around the corner. Nothing has
actually changed, you're still at your desk, but your mood lifts.
Now compare that to Sunday. You've got the whole day off, but a quiet
dread creeps in. The fun feels like it's ending. Your energy dips.
Strange, isn't it? Our emotions in the now are shaped by stories we tell
ourselves about what's coming. On Friday, we expect joy, so we feel joy
early. On Sunday, we expect stress, so we feel stress early. But the
future we're reacting to doesn't exist. It's not guaranteed. That
anticipated weekend could be awful. That dreaded Monday might hold
something beautiful. We just don't know.
Yet we allow ourselves to feel good, or bad, based on an imagined
outcome. It's all anticipation. Belief dressed up as certainty.
So what's the lesson?
The power is never in the future. It's in our choice to
assign meaning to the moment we're in.
John Sanei
If we can learn to shape that meaning with more awareness, we can
feel the lightness of Friday, without needing it to be Friday. We can
reject the dread of Sunday, without waiting for Monday to prove us
wrong.
The future is fiction. The feeling is real. And you get to choose it, right
now.
Actionable Insight
This Sunday, check in with yourself? Are you feeling a sense of dread?
If you are - close your eyes for 60 seconds and shift into how you want
to feel:
• Calm
• In flow
• Excited about the now and the week ahead.
Shift into this state whenever you choose to.
Until next time...