The weekends!!!!
This is the coolest, most awesome and sometimes the
most boring part of the week. This is the time to rest, think about and do many
other things people seldom do. The weekends are the time to throw your suits
aside and chill on your sofa to catch up with the final episodes of your
favorite action series without bothering yourself about unexpected work-calls
from your boss. This is the day you can finally take those free guitar lessons
from Mr. Andrews that you’ve been canceling and postponing during the
week. It’s also the time you can completely do your 2 weeks old laundry and
sort out the ones you need to throw or give away and the ones that are still
fit to wear.
These are just a few out of many things and activities
people do on the weekends.
Surprisingly, many other
people fail to understand what a weekend is all about.
I really like describing a weekend as 48 hours of leisure.
This means you
have 2 whole days all to yourself; you are the one who decides whether to use
it wisely or not. You can work on weekends, travel or just relax. You are the
one who has a say in your plans for the weekend. Some people know
what a weekend is truly about but fail to have a productive one. If you end a
week on a bad note, you are certainly going to start a new week badly because
weekdays follow weekends;
AN UNPLEASANT WEEKEND=AN UNPLEASANT WEEK.
However, if you
are having some trouble trying to figure out the best possible ways to have a
vibrant, totally explosive [not literally speaking] and beneficial weekend,
keep on reading pal.
I will share
with you awesome things you can do during your weekends that aren’t only fun
but educative and you will learn a few tips on how to make the most of your
weekends. As always, I try to keep it simple. Let's jump into it;
One.
Plan for the future
The future is one thing almost everyone in the world worries about.
Kid’s ponder on what their future career would be and
still live innocently with their parents thinking they would stay that way
forever.
Teens that start getting mature worry about their
physical appearance, social lives and also think of their future and earnestly
want to live alone, be independent and want to rule their own lives.
Young adults[youth] struggle to find their feet in the
vast amount of occupations, trying to determine what they want to do in life; either to keep on learning and get a
job or settle down and have a family. They also think about what’s next for
them- the future.
I could keep going
on and on but I guess you understand my point. The truth is that no one knows
what will happen in the future but a lot of people speculate about what’s going
to be. It may not necessarily be speculations about their own lives in 20 years
to come or the places they’ll go to before their 50th birthday.
People also make guesses about where people around them would be months
afterward or how the government would change in a few years to come.
The reason
I’m laying emphasis on the future being part of everyone’s lives is to show you
there is always a reason to plan ahead. Although you may not
know what will happen tomorrow, write your shopping list and hope for the best.
If there is heavy rainfall the following day, postpone it then.
There is no harm in planning for the future, sorting out
your life savings and past loans to pay or deciding on a house to reside in
that is close to your workplace. All these life decisions come in place when
you sit down (or occasionally stand up) and plan for what is to come.
The best time for this is on the weekends, so
you can focus all your attention on what you’re doing excluding your work at
the time being.
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I love doing short term planning on Saturdays. Turn on some reading
music and start writing out stuff you hope to do and become in the future.
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Your savings, your achievements, your life plans. Write them all.
Two.
Spend time with family
and friends
The weekends are the
perfect time to hang out with your friends and spend quality time with your
family.
This is mostly necessary for all busy businessmen and
women who work at hectic paces and hardly spend time with their friends and
families. The only time they do is maybe during holidays but even there are
times they get disrupted by urgent work calls or emergency situations in their
workplaces. If you are that kind of person, you need to ditch your work for some
time and focus more on your family and social life.
I suppose you
have heard this saying;” All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”, but I bet
you haven’t heard this one;” All work and no rest makes Jackie a dumb babe”. Of
course, you haven’t because I just made it up!!! (P.S I’m surely no dumb babe,
are you?).
If you haven’t been spending time with your junior siblings,
take them out to watch a movie. If you haven’t seen your family for a long time after you traveled, have a family banquet/feast. If your closest friend seems
far from you, go have a girls’ night out.
The weekends are
the time to make up for your absence in your family and social life; so don’t
miss your chance.
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Have a picnic with friends and families or go to the beach with your
mom and sis. It’s time for it.
Three. Little bit of studying
I can already hear your murmurs and groans because of
what you’re reading right now, and you are saying to yourself;” Why the heck
should I take up a school book and study in the weekend?! That’s absurd!!”
No, it is not.
Do you know what’s absurd? You failing your Mathematics exam because you
didn’t read on the weekend. Then, you’ll blame a blog post you read for
suggesting that the weekends are for resting only. Ultimately, I am responsible
for your low grade in mathematics and part of my self-esteem would be
absolutely crushed!
Now, that’s
unreasonable and besides the point but also a valid outcome if you do not abide
by this point.
Though the
weekends are mostly for resting and rejuvenation of relationships and your
spirit, there is also a need to at least carry
a book and read. You may not necessarily study the book; even if it’s a novel, textbook or storybook.
Also, like the example I made up above,
suppose you have a very important exam or test first thing on Monday morning. The weekend is the perfect time to read,
revise and study all you need to pass the exam or test. The reason is that
during the week; you would have a lot to do; you would have to focus on the
assignments and class-works at hand.
The time you would
have to yourself would possibly be at night if you are a busy student!
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That’s why you have to use the spare time you have to prep for your
exam wisely even though it is stressful. You don’t have exams every week, do
you?
Four.
Exercise
For those people who give you all sorts of excuses during the week
for exercising even though it would only take them 30 minutes, you have the
weekends on your side.
I wouldn’t
blame lazy people for always shifting exercises to the next day and the next (because
I do that sometimes, I’m a lazy lad too)
but there’s no way they can shift pass the weekends. During the week, maybe you
had tons of meetings you had to attend to, you have not been eating well and
you have been only sleeping for 3 hours the past days. You can get back on
track and replenish your body with
what it missed out during the week.
Even if it’s those 2 S-days you workout in a whole week,
you have to make sure the routine is worth it. Do lots of cardio and strength
training exercises.
You can also combine all the
exercises to form a super-workout
i.e.
AEROBIC EXERCISES+STRENGHTENING
EXERCISES+STRETCHING EXERCISES=SUPER-WORKOUT.
It’s the best full-body workout that targets all the muscle groups
and the heart.
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On Saturday, you can go to your gym and do some pilates.
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On Sunday, you can do some relaxing yoga then meditate. Have a calming cup of chamomile and green tea afterward.
Five.
Do some voluntary work
You have heard about so many
voluntary organizations right, but did you
know the people who choose to join those organizations are just like me and
you?
They have day jobs, they go to perhaps families of their
own and surely there are other things they do too. The little time they have to
offer to the organization is most likely during the weekends and they obviously
make the most out of it, by helping the less privileged and making the world a
better place.
You can also be
like them; you just need to devote part/all
the free time you get during your weekends to volunteer in organizations such
as educational institutions (schools), business firms, community service and
such. You can go to orphanage homes and volunteer to teach the kids there or
you can register as a customer care agent for the telecom system in your state
and help out every weekend. You may also
volunteer in your various churches
to host meetings at your home or assist in the welfare of the church.
As a kid, you can
also volunteer to join a local scout in your state and spread your good
character to everyone. You could even beat the Brownies at their cupcake game!
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Volunteer to help those wonderful grand papas and mamas in the
closest retirement home to yours. Their souls will bless you.
Six.
Do some charity work
This
isn’t too different from point 5.
Charity comprises of
volunteering so……….they
are all in good cheer.
Have
you noticed that all these successful people you know and those celebrities you
see on TV do most of their charity work on weekends? Well, it’s because they
know that the week has so much on its own; work schedules to follow, interviews
to go to, appearances to go to, est., and the little spare time they have(the
weekends) they have the opportunity to do some charity work.
You can do the same thing,
too!
Go
help the poor and the needy.
Donate
things including food items, clothes or equipment to orphanage homes.
Help out the homeless and pay back the debts your
friend/neighbor owes someone.
Show little acts of charity
in any way possible if you have the chance to.
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As a kid, you can help out a neighbor in; cleaning the backyard,
taking out of trash, watering the plants in the garden and feeding the pet
hamster. You may even get a few bucks to buy a cup of ice cream from your
charity.
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Show acts of kindness to people around you. Like they say; “Do good
unto others and they will do good to you”
Seven.
Finish up chores
One thing I know about being a teen is that; most weekends when you’ve planned an outing for about 3 weeks then
on Saturday morning, you’ve dressed up, called your friends and took all the
money you need. You try to tiptoe out of the house as stealthily as possible;
you see a shadow at the corner of the front door. Look behind you! It’s…………….YOUR MOM! She’s holding a scroll on her
left hand and the key to the door dangling from her right hand with a smirk on
her face. She then releases her left hand to let the loooooooong list of
probably a million chores you’ve been postponing since the beginning of the
month and you will wonder why she has to remember that exactly on the day you
want to go out with your friends? Mums hunh?!
Anyways, for you to skip this horrifying dream, make sure
you never postpone your housework. Just do it when you are given.
The best time you
can do them is during the weekends.
If it’s to clean
your room, clean it! If it’s dusting all the picture frames in the house,
Saturdays’ a great day to do it. If it’s to mow the lawn, you can do that on a
Sunday afternoon.
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The weekends are the best time to get done with all your chores. If
you can do all at once, try it out.
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Avoid postponing chores. Trust me it will come back to haunt you in
the future.
Eight.
Go on vacation
To the wonderful
city of Dubai, then surf the awesome waves of the Bahamas, next chill out and
shake your hoola skirts in Hawaii, afterward go horse riding in the magnificent
Texas.
There are so many choices to make when choosing the best
spot or place for a perfect vacation, but the harder part is setting out the date/time for it. This is the
most difficult decision to make mostly for employed men and working-class
women. It is very hard to make time for themselves and their families.
We have the
weekends to offer us quality time.
You can now start to think of places to go to only when
you’ve been assured that you are absolutely free on your weekend. You can
consider going on a family vacation to your hometown if you live away from home
or you can go on family trips or road trips during the weekends.
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Go on family outings with friends or families; you can go to a
museum, zoo or lodge at the five-star hotel you have always dreamt of
exploring.
Nine.
Pursue a possible
passion
Do you have an inner passion you so love but constant
work and business meetings hinder you from exploring them even further?
Do you have any hidden talents that you cannot define
but know it is really something special in you?
Or do you take joy in drawing so much that you draw in
your office when no one’s watching but you don’t seem to be fully embracing the
passion you have for drawing?
There is no need to fret because the S-days have your
back. The weekend is the best time to explore any passion [hidden or not] you have;
whether it be your work-related or simply hobbies and embrace it fully. You
can also work on your talents, which may most likely lead to a career for you
in the future to come.
Actually, I don’t know if I am the only one that gets this kind of feeling
but anytime I am doing a hobby of mine, a ‘hearty’ feeling comes as though it
is really a passionate stiff I would like to make a career out of it.
Two of those hobbies are (yeah...Blogging, writing, I
just love it) and sporting (Yeah, Yeah, I’m THAT kind of person).so, you find
the one that you know and feel passionate about then just……follow your heart.
Ten.
Finish your bucket
list
Do you have a
summer bucket list, I mean, list of things to do and places to go to, and
you’re yet to tick even one item off the list?
I also have my 2019 summer bucket list, yet to be
completed though. You can start doing those things you want to do that are
written on your list and spare time is there for all those who are as busy as bees.
The weekend is the spare time you can have to complete
your bucket list; maybe before school returns or before work continues. It’s
great to keep set goals in mind when completing bucket lists, either short term
or long term. It’s a great way of ensuring you have the motif to complete the
list while still having fun.
I usually keep
short goals in mind when having bucket lists, like the one I mentioned earlier
is meant to be completed before school starts. Time is running out!!!! I know, but the fun’s still the best part.
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Keep goal plans and set time ranges to complete your goals.
Conclusion
Thanks so much for
stopping by. Writing this post was actually a tough
one, I literally took 3 days!!!
Normally, I take a day/ a half, if there is more inspiration. I think why it was
hard for me to get much inspiration for this post is because I was sort
of…..okay I was a lazy type. I really didn’t spend my weekends wisely mostly
during school days but as time passed by, with help from my favorite bloggers
and the billion posts I read to stop me from being a lazy lad on Saturdays and
Sundays, I changed!
Not suddenly but gradually, and I’m sure you can too. I speak from
personal experience, so I hope you figure out where I’m coming from and the
point I’m trying to make. A big thanks
to my little bro, who helped with some of the points (he can be annoying
sometimes but amazingly wise). Please tell me if these tips helped you out in making the most out of your weekends. Also, drop a tip of your own. Don’t
forget to spread the word to your friends, and to their friends.
(P.S this post is 3000+ words long! My longest so far, so,
thanks to you guys for your support and for pushing me this far, hugs and
kisses to y’all)
Thanks again for your time.
Stay tuned and stay
blessed.
Do
ü Try to be more productive during the weekends; do your chores,
read/study and help those who need help.
Don’ts
û Don’t be a lazy slop!
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