Lessons Learned reading "What The Most Successful People Do On The Weekend" by Laura Vanderkam and "First Things First" by Stephen R. Covey

1. Have a Good
Weekend
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2. Lessons Learned Reading

3. Meet John

4. John is a
Software
Developer

5. He loves his wife Monica
and their two Kids

6. He likes Hiking

7. He likes to go
to Italian
Restaurants

8. He has
many
dreams

9. But he works a lot

10. And he lives far from work
that means bad traffic everyday

11. He just can’t
figure out why
he can find time
to do what he
likes one
weekends...

12. He has chores left to weekends

13. And he has work to finish

14. And his children needs attention

15. How can we help him?

16. Well, many of us have trouble
using our weekends well,
don’t we?

17. Our time “disappear into
chores, errands, inefficient
e-mail checking,
unconsciously chosen
television marathons, or a
death march of children’s
activities that suck the
energy out of chauffeuring
adults.”
Laura Vanderkam

18. the paradox of weekends
“You have to set an appointment
to go off the grid as surely as to
go on it.”

19. There are 60 hours between 6p.m.
Friday 6a.m. Monday.

20. Be strategic with these hours

21. “If you know you
want to read a
book, then get the
book out and have
it set aside and
make plans to
read it”
Laura Vanderkam

22. Your weekends
should be
different from
your workdays.

23. You need Active Rest

24. “If running is your
only mode of
exercise, the same
muscles are always
stressed in the same
way, increasing the
likelihood of injury,”
Laura Vanderkam

25. “Man is so made
that he can only
find relaxation
from one kind of
labor by taking
up another.”
Anatole France

26. You need an overall planning

27. “Anticipation
accounts for a
big chunk of
the happiness
gleaned from
any event”
Laura
Vanderkam

28. Even if all goes
wrong in the
moment you still
will have derived
some pleasure from
the anticipation
Laura Vanderkam

29. Plan 3 Anchor Events for your
Weekend

30. Make a list of
of your
100 dreams

31. Use Mornings
as well

32. Keep a (tech) Sabbath

33. “compressing chores
and professional
work into a small
time frame on
weekends lets you
relax the rest of
the time, knowing
that there is a time
for work, and now
is not that time”
Laura Vanderkam

34. “I know I’m in charge
of me. Everything
that I do, every
minute I spend is my
choice.”
Theresa Daytner

35. Now, Go Have a Good Weekend

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