Three Steps To A Great Weekend

Ok, you’ve got the Friday feeling, collegues are buzzing, and you can tell everyone is thinking “just get me outta here.” Yet you know you’ll end up spending your weekend in front of the television or sitting in the garden wishing you were somewhere else, watching Monday edge ever closer and feeling like you’re wasting your precious time off.

So whether it’s quality time with family you’re seeking or fun and adventures with your mates – just follow these three steps and soon your weekends will turn from a ‘whatever’ to unmissable opportunity– don’t believe me – just give them a try…

The first thing you have realise if you want a good weekend, jam packed with the things you love, is it cannot be isolated between week days of boredom. You can’t leave all the fun to the weekends. You’re free time during the week is your free time so enjoy yourself! Arrange for mates to come over and if you’re tired and don’t want to cook then get take out, or arrange for each of your friends to bring a dish each. The most vital step to having a nice weekend is actually having a nice week! Because you know what they say, one thing leads to another, you’ll get chatting and before you know it you’ll have invitations coming out of your ears. So open your eyes, plan ahead, and get yourself booked up.

Second point – take a chance. Too many times Rich and I have sat in for fear that if we try something new and don’t enjoy it we would have wasted our free time and it’s the wrong attitude! If you need to travel because there’s nothing to do in your area then travel. Get some great music, make like Thelma and Louise and hit the road. Go on adventures, visit new places and get out of your usual surroundings. Take friends, family and go and explore. There are lots to see and do even if it’s not on your doorstep.

And last but by no means least, when you’re actually having your beautiful weekend don’t begin to dread the week ahead. It doesn’t matter if you enjoy your job or not it’s so easy to start to feel sad about your time coming to an end, so much so it ruins your Sunday. Weekends must end like all good things but that’s the beauty of them. They are a short moment in a sequence of hectic, rushed days. Something that can be both equally amazing or disappointing. A delicate 48 hours you have to get right. And when you do, accepting it has to end is almost as hard as getting it perfect in the first place. But there’s always next week to look forward to… and before then you have lots of little things during to week to enjoy, don’t you? : )