026: Making the Most of Your Weekend
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Do you get to Sunday night and wonder where the weekend went? We just need to streamline your Saturdays and Sundays for success so you can actually enjoy your time. We often feel the need to work throughout our weekend, but in today's episode I'm giving 5 tips on how to combat working on the weekend. I'll also share research on why it's important to take this time off so you can maximize your productivity for the week ahead.
What's In This Episode:
• How to cut back on weekend work, emails, texts, to-dos and more using my 5 easy and actionable strategies
• Learn to consistently make the most of your weekends by streamlining Saturday and Sunday for success.
• See what the newest research and studies say about how our brain, health and productivity are affected by working weekends.
• Steps to creating good habits on the weekend so that you work less and spend more time on the right tasks and people.
• Why you need to create hours of availability and hours of business (and the big difference between the two!)
Get access to our free download, "Five Minutes to Peak Productivity" at inkwellpress.com/podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 26. |
| 0:27.8 | Today, we are talking about making the most of your weekend. |
| 0:31.9 | We all look forward to the weekend, right? |
| 0:34.8 | Except a lot of times we get to Sunday evening and we think, where did my weekend go? |
| 0:40.0 | Or I spent the entire weekend working and now I'm exhausted and I'm not ready for Monday. |
| 0:46.6 | I really want to have you feel like your weekends are for restoring and they can be. |
| 0:52.6 | You can really take advantage and make the most out of your |
| 0:55.6 | weekend, but only if you plan for them. I think the idea that you're not going to work at all |
| 1:02.2 | on the weekend is not realistic. There's going to be times when you're going to need to work on the |
| 1:07.9 | weekend. It's just something you need to do. So when people tell you, you shouldn't work at all on the weekends, I just don't feel like |
| 1:14.8 | that's really real. It's not really realistic. And for people who love to work, like me, |
| 1:20.6 | it's okay to find some time to spend on work tasks. It's really all about the harmony. |
| 1:27.1 | If you've listened to this podcast for any length |
| 1:29.1 | of time, you know I believe balance is bogus. And it is because if it was really balanced, |
| 1:36.0 | instead of having five days of work and two days at home, we would spend three and a half days |
| 1:41.8 | working really hard and then three and a half days |
| 1:44.7 | relaxing and doing all the fun stuff at home. |
| 1:47.6 | But we don't. |
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