Whether you are a salaried businessman, a student going to school, or a college personnel, one thing common among all is the craving for the Weekend Balance. Yes, weekends are the days everyone, including me, waits for since the start of the week. The week has just started, but we wish for the weekend. It may sound childish, but that’s true; craving for the weekend is surreal.
Saturdays and Sundays are the weekends, when plenty of Jobs, Schools, and Colleges provide holidays from Saturday onwards. In several institutions, the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month are termed holidays. After a hustling week, several people want just a cozy bed to relax and refrain from stress and burden, whereas, on the other hand, a large section of people want to be productive on the weekend or complete pending household tasks like laundry, errands, etc.
There are two types of people during weekends (Do mention in which category you count yourself in?) –
- People wanting a complete detox from everything during the weekends.
- People wanting to be creative on weekends.
People wanting to be creative on weekends often feel guilty for not completing the tasks they have left or decided to do on the weekends. They feel less productive and term this as procrastination and a lack of dedication when not meeting their ends or promises for the tasks they have decided on weekdays. But what if I tell you that you can plan your weekends and master them? Sounds refreshing and promising, right? This blog is all about how you can master your weekend balance in a peaceful yet productive manner. Stay tuned; that will be the fantastic one.
Why Weekend Balance is Crucial?
Since childhood, we have just taken weekends as relaxing days, when we can sleep until late in the morning and wake late at night to binge-watch movies and web series. However, once we reach maturity age and adolescence, we consider weekends productive days.
Researchers have proved that Weekends are the reset buttons for the mind and body as they reduce the overall stress of the weekdays, improve creativity, and assist in decision-making. From completing your laundry to editing and updating your resumes to decluttering your closet, every pending task is a step towards productivity because it refrains you from burdening your next week.
Balance is all we need for the weekend, as it can convert into the launchpad for the next week. I have subcategorized the whole blog to make it easy for you to understand and implement without stress.
Structuring Weekend –
- Designing the Simple Weekened Structure –
Rigid timeline just like weekdays can be too frustrating and suffocating because whole weekdays, you have waited for these moments, for these two days. Instead of a strict timetable, make it a flexible, simple, and loose structure. You can plan your Saturday morning time for your freelancing or personal projects, evening for self-care, Sunday mornings for planning, and evenings of Sundays for recharging yourself for next week. Ensure productivity and peace instead of a hectic schedule.
- Build your Weekend Identity –
Create a character of yourself where you have the authority to build your weekend identity, where you can plan what you want to be on the weekend. Whether a dreamer, a doer, or a time passer, what you want to be on the weekend, plan it now to prevent passing your weekend in boredom and being the least productive.
- Redefine the productivity for the Weekend –
Weekdays and Weekends have too many differences, as weekdays have hassles, and weekends are a time for relaxation. From planning an outing with your family to investing entirely in your passionate project to learning something new, you must have plans to redefine productivity for the weekend instead of just passing it. Do whatever you want, but from the heart.
- Finalizing One Big Task for the Weekend –
Planning every task for the weekend is important, but there’s always one crucial and needed task. It may consist of completing your personal project, a book, or traveling to a known place again; it can be anything. Just keep that in highlighted mode and stick to it.
- Resetting Ritual –
Detoxing yourself from the weekday stress is crucial because you can’t imagine peace when your mind is full of stress and tensions from the weekdays. It might be taking an hour shower to sleep as much as possible to spend spare time between the candles and rest the ritual to prevent stress on Monday. Please take it as a long break and the start of a new chapter.
- Keeping Peace as the Priority –
Peace is the utmost priority, as without peace, tension about the upcoming week can kill your weekends. I am telling the truth. Stay calm as much as possible and be happy with no worries. From watching a movie to having a morning and evening walk without a phone to having a cup of coffee or chai at any cafe or Tapari gives an upper hand to peace.
- Don’t forget connecting with people –
One thing many people forget while maintaining a weekend balance is connecting with people, connecting with your family. Yes, don’t just make your weekends only liable to you; give time to connecting people, too. It can be from calling your friend to going on a date with your loved one, or a game and discussion night with your family. Give time to all, and don’t forget to connect with people.
- Mini-moments of Joy –
From having tea that lasts longer than expected to enjoying the sunset to listening to music while bathing and dancing, consider these micro and mini moments of joy, along with the tasks. These mini-moments of pleasure can be the ones that can provide you with an infinite stress-burst.
- Forgetting Guilt –
If you aren’t productive this week and instead rest well, that’s fine. Not all weekends must be kept for productivity, and weekends can also be for sleeping and planning. Forget the guilt and focus on how to make your present weekend soothing as per your choice.
- Prepare yourself for Monday –
Instead of taking Monday as the monster, structure it and plan it according to your wish with a detailed thought. Prepare yourself for Monday since the afternoon of Sunday by thinking about how you can make your workload affect you less and plan your Monday to be the innovative one, instead of assuming it is hazardous.
Writer’s Blog Reel for the Weekend Topic –
Let’s have a chit-chat. In the comments, let me know how you plan your weekends and what changes you will make after reading the blog about your weekend routines. Don’t forget to share.
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