#6 Invest in Yourself
“You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometime, you’ll find, you get what you need,” ~The Rolling Stones
Recently, The New York Times declared the quarantine killed the weekend.
I agree. Starting in March, I lost our weekends. They used to be unique and refreshing, but then time lost meaning. The line between work and time off was blurred, and quarantine memes stopped being funny.
These are strategies we’ve used to reclaim our weekends. I hope they will help you reclaim your time so that your well-lived weekends will add up to a more well-lived life.
Plan your weekend before it starts
Now that you have the awareness that you want to do something different, start planning during the week. Start with brainstorming what’s missing from your weekends and what things you want to add. Write out a list of things you could look forward to and plan some mini-adventures. For example, we can get advance tickets to museums in our area, and we prepared for a couple of day trips to state parks.
The weekend sections on our store-bought calendar are tiny, so I started a shared Google Doc. A…
