Don’t Let Weekends Sabotage Your Week Day Routine
You know that you look forward to them. Weekends never seem long enough or restful enough, but they give you hope in catching to catch up. They are your end goal. You just need to make it. They are the reward for all of the frustrating moments between the office and our homes.
However, what if you could get to a point where your weekends don't seem like such a trial to make to the finish line? Where your weekends really are filled with moments of being present and fun and not tasks. What if we could strategically use our precious weekends to be more than a place filled with children's activities and moments of "catching up"?
Scheduling about an hour of your time during the weekend to reflect on the week's hardship and identify the upcoming week's moments of stress will help position you for a better week. Use resources like post-it notes and your calendar as powerful tools to secure some sanity going into the next week. They will help you become a force pushing positive time management into your family and then catapulting it through to your next weekend. This hour should be in the morning before you start meal planning or grocery lists/shopping
This time block should accomplish the following things:
Identify deadlines and annual calendar activities
Highlight appointments
Focus on the upcoming week's weather forecast
Review personal, spouse's and children's needs and wants - school, extra-curricular activities, etc.
After the above items are complete, move on to filling in your meals to fit in with all of your significant events; soccer games, school projects, a predictable late night in the office, a work trip, etc. You don't want to schedule a roast on the same night that take-out is necessary for your survival.
These 60 measly minutes, which can come across as daunting, will gift you such peace of mind and position you for a more relaxed week. You will already know what is coming up when. You will be able to focus on the little supporting details of everything and not be thrown off by the next moment's arrival.
In my next post, I'll show you how I've organized my house to bring me more success and how this weekly strategy has made my family's life more predictable and caused calmer mornings and evenings.
