How to get some rest over the weekend

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Sleeping until noon will definitely not help you, but disabled work chats will.

Plan your weekend ahead

It sounds boring and seems like the opposite of fun. You are sure that on Saturday morning you will flutter out of bed and an avalanche of ideas will fall on you.

But remember how you usually go on weekends without a plan. You lie in bed for a long time, slowly getting ready, painfully figuring out where to go. Scrolling through the pages on the Internet, hoping to find options there. As a result, leave the house late and irritated, because part of the day was wasted.

To prevent this from happening, start thinking about the weekend on Monday. Firstly, it is pleasant, because the anticipation of joy is also joy. Secondly, you will have time to figure out where you want to go and coordinate plans with your friends. In addition, with this approach, you will immediately subscribe information about interesting events from the feed of social networks. And you will no longer have to remember on Saturday what you saw so interesting and where.

Leave perfectionism for everyday life

We have already determined that planning is the key to success. But you don't have to make a rigid schedule. You will be upset if something goes wrong, and it ruins the whole holiday. Let the plan look like a constructor: if you didn't manage to get to one place, it is easy to replace it with another. Force majeure happens, but it shouldn't ruin the weekend.

So don't raise your expectations and allow yourself to relax. After all, this is what the weekend is about.

Allow yourself to be unproductive

From childhood, we are told that the best rest is a change of activity. And on Saturday we lie in bed with no strength to even stick our leg out from under the covers and gnaw ourselves for being lazy. Then we watch the series and reproach ourselves again, because it was possible to do something useful. Stop doing this and allow yourself to indulge in all sorts of nonsense, if it really brings you joy.

Nobody grades you for how you spend your weekend. So fight your excellent student complex and live in pleasure.

Think over routes

Be realistic: Traffic jams don't magically dissolve on weekends, although they get smaller. Roads are suddenly closed due to communal accidents, rallies or parades. And it’s just not pleasant to spend a few hours on Saturday or Sunday in transport.

Think over your routes and your busyness so that moving from point A to point B takes place without hatred of all living things. Look in advance on news sites for traffic blockage information. Whenever possible, try to choose vacation spots that are close to each other. Do not forget to take a public transport card and some cash and install a taxi call application on your smartphone.

Do household chores on weekdays

Contrary to your mom's fears, you won't get muddy if you stop spending Saturday in the company of a rag and a vacuum cleaner. Ordinary cleaning can take hours if you uncover something memorable or interesting in the bowels of the closet. And if it takes a few minutes, all the more it makes sense to postpone it to Wednesday or Thursday so that you can go on an adventure at the weekend and have time to do everything planned.

Postpone work until Monday

People were fighting for an eight-hour day and five days not so that you would sit at your laptop all weekend and write to colleagues in instant messengers.

There are lucky people who forget about work, crossing the threshold of the office. But not everyone knows how to do this. For example, your boss will have a bright idea on Saturday night, and he will scribble you an assignment for Monday. And you end up spending Sunday thinking about how best to do it.

Technology allows you to always be in touch, but this is more often convenient for those who bring problems, and not for you. Therefore, on weekends, try to block communication channels through which alarming, but non-urgent information is received. Otherwise, you won't be able to have a good rest, and chats with colleagues will drag you into the next working week prematurely. Plus, reading messages and pondering responses is time-consuming, and weekends aren't rubbery anyway.

Observe the regimen

Weekends seem like a great opportunity to catch up on the day's sleep deprivation. But it's still better to start the alarm. Sleeping too long can lead to headaches due to decreased serotonin levels. And in a broken state, it is difficult to enjoy life. So just sleep a little longer than usual to catch up. In addition, getting up early frees up a lot of time for interesting activities.

Spend your weekend actively

Let's face it, if you’re not paving the pavement with a shovel, but sitting in an office, your lifestyle isn’t an active one. The World Health Organization recommends exercising at least 150 minutes per week. This will help keep you healthy.

In addition, exercise, including regular walking, can help cope with stress and stimulate the production of endorphins, the hormone of joy. So this way of spending the weekend will be both rewarding and enjoyable. It will also help you get things done, as it will set you up to act quickly and decisively.

Create morning rituals

Let the weekend have special signs that will say: "Hurray, rest!" Maybe this ritual will be a special breakfast, or yoga on the balcony, or a morning walk with the dog in a remote park. Such a ritual in the future will help you quickly tune in to rest.

Look for something new

But the rituals typical of weekdays are best avoided on weekends. Even walking the same road as you go to work can be unsettling. The body knows that this is usually followed by a long day at work. Play in contrast.

Think about Sunday

Sunday evening is difficult to call a time of rest. Some thoughts have already rushed to work, others devote him to suffering because of the approaching Monday. Take this evening with something pleasant and distracting that will leave no room for emotions. Meet up with friends, go to the cinema or theater. But don't come back too late so you can lie in bed before bed and remember what a great weekend it was.

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