9 Ways Successful People Spend Their Weekends
This post was last updated on November 1st, 2015
It is said the success comes with a price and when you are striving to attain success, you need to plan the productivity of each passing day. When you are putting in all the mighty efforts throughout the week, you need to decide intelligently about how you want to spend your weekends.
Studies have revealed that successful people plan in advance about the way in which they want to spend their weekends and they even allot stipulated time for a rejuvenated weekend. They believe that weekends should not be exhaustive, it should rather be engaging in activities that train you further to achieve freedom from mental stress.
Your weekends should make you feel refreshed and sportive by combining family activities and pursuing your hidden creativity. Instead of spending your weekend like a couch potato watching TV for endless hours, you should indulge in revitalising your mind and body for attaining a sense of accomplishment and kick yourself towards the next goal. Here is a comprehensive list of 9 ways successful people spend their weekends
1. Exercise & Meditate
Successful people can often have a stressed up mind. While it is necessary to keep exercising regularly and if you can’t manage during the busy weekdays, you can exercise on the weekends. Exercising on weekends will activate your stressed muscles and will keep you active for the next week’s work load. Moreover, meditation is an excellent way to connect your mind and soul and soothes your senses completely. It is the best technique to waken up your creativity and put all tensions at bay.
2. Spend Quality Time With Family And Friends
Your family is the source of motivation for you and they share your success. While working hard to attain success, you may find less time for your family and friends. But it is your responsibility to give your time during weekends to the persons who motivate you to be successful in life. Apart from family, you need to enjoy a social status as well and for that you need to interact with the society and learn new lessons from other’s experience. Successful people are highly satisfied by being in continuous contact with the society as they get recognition for their undying efforts.
3. Pursing Hobbies
People who spend more than 40 hours in a week working to achieve their goals, enjoy their weekends more if they start pursing their talents or hobbies. In order to kick-start your Monday in a great way, you can develop your interests in gardening, home decor crafts, sports, cooking, games or any other artistic activity. You can even go out to watch your favourite play, join any club, watch live music concerts or sport events.
Alternatively, you can re-live your college days by joining weekend educational or certificate courses. Successful people know how to balance their personal and professional space and they utilise their weekends in the most efficient manner.
4. Don’t Check Business E-Mails
Successful people know the value of time and they know to make the most out of free time. They avoid checking their business e-mails as they know that if they invest even little time on checking e-mails, then they will end up in working for long hours on weekends also. Successful people have said that if they abandon using phones even for an hour or so, they feel liberated. Successful people know the importance of disconnecting their minds from work on weekends.
5. Plan An Outing
After an intense week at work, it is better to plan an outing or vacation for those two precious days as it relaxes your mind and you are able to enjoy your personal space more. Plan your outings well in advance and make the arrangements beforehand, so that you don’t end up seeing the arrangements at the last minute instead of enjoying the outing yourself.
6. Avoid Household Chores
Major household chores should be completed during the weekdays and you should plan minimum chores for the weekends. Many a times, you tend to do the entire cleaning and organizing work at your home on weekends. This will result in an exhaustive weekend and you will not find yourself geared up to face the challenges of the upcoming week. Try to keep your mind stress free and do what cheers you up during the weekends instead of draining your remaining energy.
7. Fulfil Their Social Responsibility
Many successful people often feel satisfied by investing time to fulfil their social responsibilities. They often participate in social awareness programmes, fund raising events, etc. The volunteering work gives them a respite from the heavy analytical work and they exhibit their creativity to the fullest. They also get optimum satisfaction by donating in financial terms or in kind.
8. Plan Actions For Upcoming Week
After enjoying maximum time of your weekend, you need to plan the actions for the coming week. Planning your job function during you weekend will ensure that you will give clear directions to your subordinates at work and you will be effective in delegating your responsibilities with the very start of the week.
9. Belief In Networking
A successful person never waits for the next best opportunity to do networking. Successful people rather create opportunities to present themselves and they believe in create and enhancing their brand image. Wherever they go and whatever they do, successful people manage to establish new contacts and even they are great at maintaining their contacts.
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Snehashree Bhat
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