Grant Cardone argues that most people do not work hard enough during the week to deserve a day of rest on Sundays. He cites biblical references that God rested on the seventh day after creating the entire world in six days, implying most people have not earned a day of rest through hard work. The author agrees and argues that rest should be well-earned through high productivity the rest of the week. She recounts still working on Sundays as a student despite religious activities, and urges readers to critically examine whether they truly deserve a day off each week or are using religion as an excuse for laziness.

1. By Heather Katsonga-Woodward,
http://www.themoneyspotprogram.com
I listened to a lot of Grant Cardone in 2014. In Sell or Be Sold he has this one little
section where he talks about how he works 14 hours a day on his best days and
does more in 2.5 days than most people do the whole week. Grant then goes on to
say that come Sunday, having done nothing all week some people still feel entitled
to rest because “The Good Book” says they should rest.
As far as Grant is concerned and I would tend to agree that logic is completely
flawed. He thinks God rested on the 7th day because he’d built the whole entire
world in 6 days and as such deserved a rest. You haven’t done anything solid all
week and still you think you need a rest? What? Why?
Indeed, every religion has it’s own day of rest whether it be Friday, Saturday or Sunday and a lot of people use it as a
justification for not working. If you’ve been as productive as you want to be the rest of the week, why not? However, the fact is
most haven’t.
I personally think rest has to be well earned and if you’re going to make it in this life there will be months when you cannot take
a single day fully off. Even when I was pregnant and exhausted I was working like a donkey most days until the 37th week when
I cut back to about 2 to 4 hours per day.
As a student in both high school and university I used to go to chapel every Sunday but that didn’t mean I didn’t do any work. I
just did my work around chapel and ensured that I didn’t laze around the rest of the week.
Chapel was actually one of my favourite times of the week because it was a very social experience. I was friends with many
people at chapel and usually spent an hour afterwards hanging out.
After I was done enjoying myself I went back to hit the books.
If you feel like you’re underachieving relative to where you should be and you also take a day off every week for religious
reasons I would have a critical think about that. I’m not going to tell you what you should do all I will say is that you are the
mistress of your own fate and small things like allowing yourself to work on the day you have been taught to believe is “a day of
rest” can make a massive difference in your output.
God doesn’t care when you work. If God was so against me working on Sundays then why did he let me go from academic
success to academic success? From a struggling 11 year-old how is it that by the time I was 17 He gave me all the resources to
get into Cambridge and then ultimately to graduate with a first class degree?
Ultimately, you could be saying I am not working on Sunday or Saturday or Friday for religious reasons when the truth is, you’re
not working on that day because you don’t want to and feel a religious reason is a good justification for your laziness. ‘Nuff said.