Why treating your weekend like a vacation can make you happier on Monday

Life Kit

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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So many weekends get filled up with errands, plans and work. These relaxation techniques can make your days off feel less taxing and more rejuvenating.

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0:00.0	Is this Molly Wernick?
0:03.0	This is, in fact, Molly Wernick.
0:05.0	Molly Wernick is a Life Kit listener.
0:08.0	I thought, wow, this is very practical knowledge.
0:12.0	I wanted to talk to her because she listened to an episode and something really cool happened.
0:17.0	Molly had some loans from school and credit card debt and wasn't really making a
0:21.7	ton of progress paying those off. But then she heard about two debt repayment strategies on LifeKit.
0:27.9	I think it was the Avalanche strategy and the snowball strategy. And so the snowball strategy really
0:33.4	appealed to me because it said, take the loan with the lowest balance and pay it off as
0:41.5	quickly as possible.
0:42.6	She thought, hey, I could try that, this snowball strategy.
0:46.2	It sounded doable.
0:47.3	I made, I think, the biggest payment I have ever made of anything in my life from my bank
0:53.6	account, I think. Then in a matter of
0:56.3	minutes, my loan was totally paid off. And what did that feel like? Good. It's exciting. It's like,
1:01.7	okay, well, I can do this. Like, what's next? It's actually making a difference in the way that I can spend
1:07.6	an extra $250 a month. Now I'm one step closer to being debt-free.
1:13.6	That is super cool.
1:15.4	And we want to make more LifeKit episodes so you can feel the way that Molly feels.
1:20.0	And to do that, we need your support.
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1:24.4	Just go to donate.npr.org slash life kit to give.
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