HAPPY WEEKEND

Happy Weekend. Why Not Happy Week? How to Redesign Joy for All Seven Days For generations, we’ve been sold a cultural script: grind through f ive days, then come alive on two. But what if this script is a trap? What if waiting for weekends robs us of 71% of our lives? In this bold and practical book, Dr. Abhishek Gilara questions the “happy weekend” culture and offers a new philosophy: Happy Week. Drawing from personal reflections, deep research, and insights from his earlier works, he shows why joy must be spread across all seven days and how to actually do it. Inside you will discover: • The history of how “the weekend” was manufactured and marketed. • Why weekend-only celebrations create exhaustion, not fulfillment. • The science of savoring how small daily joys beat big, rare splurges. • The weekend trap: why overindulgence and binge patterns are risky. • A practical “Happy Week Blueprint” to bring joy, health, and balance to every day. With wisdom from psychology, spirituality, and lived experience, Happy Weekend. Why Not Happy Week? is a guide to reclaiming your time, your peace, and your happiness. “Don’t live for two days. Live the seven. Don’t wait for the weekend. Make every day worth it.”