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Wednesday Is More Than Hump Day
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Wednesday Is More Than Hump Day Thinking of taking a day off? Experts say taking a Wednesday off can be more refreshing than taking a three-day weekend. Taking a Wednesday off can break up the pace of a busy work week, allowing people a day to live on their own pace, explains Dawna Ballard, a communications professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a scholar of chronemics, the study of time and communication. In an interview with Quartz, Ballard explained that the human experience of time is ordered by internal and external “pacers.” Internal pacers are unique to the individual (such as being a morning person or a night owl) while external pacers are put in place by the world. The work week itself is an example of an external pacer, she said. “Everyone has a different chronotype. Some people are slower moving, some people are faster moving,” Ballard said. “Our work, though, just goes and throws that out the window and says actually, this is how fast you have to work, this is when you have to work.” Promotes harmony between internal and external pacers If you’ve ever had a case of the Mondays, the friction between your internal and external pacers could be to blame. Ballard offered up a social science perspective for why Mondays can be so difficult. You’re coming off from a weekend, where you do have your own pace,” Ballard said. “It’s having to go from your pacer, back to this other pacer, there’s that friction.” However, having a free Wednesday can help interrupt the externally-dictated pacer of work. A mid-week break can give you a chance to get back to your internal rhythms, which can help to keep your external and internal pacers in sync. “You start the week knowing, I only have two days on this rhythm and then I get back to mine, ” Ballard says. “There’s a greater sense of calm and control.” Disrupts the pace of the week Taking a long weekend may give workers a longer stretch of time to be on their own schedules, but it doesn’t disrupt the pacing of the work week. “A free Wednesday builds space on either side, and shifts the balance between your pace and work’s—in your favor,” writes Annaliese Griffin for Quartz. Employees who have taken Wednesday off may even have a more positive mood to show for it. “People’s moods are oftentimes buoyed when they’re looking forward to enjoyable activities,” Steven Meyers, professor of psychology at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Ill., told HuffPost. “And that positive attitude can have residual effects, as people remember a fun, relaxing day, even after returning to reality.” A mid-week breather could also translate to better results on work projects, Meyers said. “Some work tasks actually improve when we put them aside to get a refreshed perspective,” he said. “We can approach them with a fresh set of eyes and have new ideas about how to complete the task.” Which day do you prefer to take off? How do you spend your time?  |
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Do you agree that besides being 'Hump Day', taking a Wednesday off can be more refreshing than taking a three-day weekend?
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11/1/2018 1:54 am |
Just have to give this to the boss.  . I'm sure she will agree.
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Just have to give this to the boss. . I'm sure she will agree.
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Retired, so everyday is Hump Day if I can find a cooperative partner, grin !
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Retired, so everyday is Hump Day if I can find a cooperative partner, grin !
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I would prefer a Monday or a Friday. What would I do? I would spend the day in front of my computer, with my pants around my ankles, while on the A F F Site and other porn sites ? Hmmm...😁 Just kidding... I wouldn't be wearing pants... ❤️😉🍁🍂🐷 ... is there another way to look at it Going Too Fucking Far NEW Blog Features RevealeD O O A Foolproof Method Posted Over on that NEW site O O
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I do agree...I have often thought if given a 4-day work week, Wednesday may be the ideal day to be the "off" day during he week.
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I would prefer a Monday or a Friday. What would I do? I would spend the day in front of my computer, with my pants around my ankles, while on the A F F Site and other porn sites ? Hmmm...😁 Just kidding... I wouldn't be wearing pants... ❤️😉🍁🍂🐷
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I do agree...I have often thought if given a 4-day work week, Wednesday may be the ideal day to be the "off" day during he week. 
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Oh Paul. Who are you kidding? You would be down by the lake with with your cooler of frozen vodka slushies getting loopy while dreaming up your next blog post. Are pants optional there? ... is there another way to look at it Going Too Fucking Far NEW Blog Features RevealeD O O A Foolproof Method Posted Over on that NEW site O O
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11/1/2018 6:58 am |
Damn! Wish I'd known this on Tuesday.  I'm a morning person. I need work to keep me moving, on my own I drift and waste time. I get up at the same time every day. I guess I need routine.
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Interesting facts about taking Wednesday off, although it's good to have a break in the middle of the week I would rather have Monday or Friday off giving me a longer weeked..I hope your Hump day was a good one and may the rest of your week be too.. Seduce the mind and see what a wonderful adventure the body will take you on.. 
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Hmmm... Well, I don't want to push my luck. Whenever I'm by the lake and my pants are off, I never get up from my chair to ask anyone what the 'options' are. You'd love it there by the way. I know you like being by the water. You've mentioned that before. You have a good memory - I do love being by the water despite pantless men sitting about.
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Damn! Wish I'd known this on Tuesday. I'm a morning person. I need work to keep me moving, on my own I drift and waste time. I get up at the same time every day. I guess I need routine.I am a morning person and a night owl so my sleep patterns are totally messed up.
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Interesting facts about taking Wednesday off, although it's good to have a break in the middle of the week I would rather have Monday or Friday off giving me a longer weeked..I hope your Hump day was a good one and may the rest of your week be too..  . Hope the rest of your week is awesome!
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Sounds like a fun way to spend your time. Yep, those darn weekend crowds can be everywhere!
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When I first started work in a bank Wednesdays were half days as were Saturdays. Helped my golf improve no end. And in the small towns of Rhodesia a number of the businesses also closed on Wednesday afternoons. like the butcher and pharmacy. Everyone knew and planned accordingly. Then along came ATMs, credit cards and the wish for 24 x 7 shopping Wednesdays are always best to give life a rhythm
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When I first started work in a bank Wednesdays were half days as were Saturdays. Helped my golf improve no end. And in the small towns of Rhodesia a number of the businesses also closed on Wednesday afternoons. like the butcher and pharmacy. Everyone knew and planned accordingly. Then along came ATMs, credit cards and the wish for 24 x 7 shopping Wednesdays are always best to give life a rhythm
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hi sexyldy1000. thanks for sharing this post. It's always refreshing for me to read about something that I kinda dabbled with some thoughts on. external versus internal pacers for one... we are all different, but, share some behavioral patterns of others thru the dynamics of DNA. looking forward to long weekends does lift my spirits, but, I don't know how that has been measured to improve my performance at work. breaking up the external pacer by taking a day off in the middle of a week may be the best thing possible. Where I've been able to work from home one or more days per week, it seems to have a positive effect on me. On one hand, I don't have to drive or dress up to stay home... and, I can work odd hours without feeling like I'm on a 100 hour per week grind... it gives me the flexibility to interact with people in different time zones around the world... reminds me of studies that people have done reducing lighting, opening work spaces, bringing in snacks and drinks, introducing flex time, changing the work hours to enable core hours to exist and private meeting times... all sorts of changes that can be a positive influence... thanks for sharing... have a great day!!! made me think of this... 'Road not taken' by Robert Frost. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference..." To leave private messages, please use my confidential mailbox at my blog: Good luck!!!
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hi sexyldy1000. thanks for sharing this post. It's always refreshing for me to read about something that I kinda dabbled with some thoughts on. external versus internal pacers for one... we are all different, but, share some behavioral patterns of others thru the dynamics of DNA. looking forward to long weekends does lift my spirits, but, I don't know how that has been measured to improve my performance at work. breaking up the external pacer by taking a day off in the middle of a week may be the best thing possible. Where I've been able to work from home one or more days per week, it seems to have a positive effect on me. On one hand, I don't have to drive or dress up to stay home... and, I can work odd hours without feeling like I'm on a 100 hour per week grind... it gives me the flexibility to interact with people in different time zones around the world... reminds me of studies that people have done reducing lighting, opening work spaces, bringing in snacks and drinks, introducing flex time, changing the work hours to enable core hours to exist and private meeting times... all sorts of changes that can be a positive influence... thanks for sharing... have a great day!!! made me think of this... 'Road not taken' by Robert Frost. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference..." Thanks Easy for providing your perspective and including a classic Robert Frost poem.
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