The weekend is often seen as our holy time for a long working week to demolish, indulge and refill.
But have you ever appeared on Sunday evening feeling more dried than refresh?
It is such a common trap, and I noticed in practice of my advice.
I don’t suggest that we turn it into an endless list every week and Sunday. However, if we are sincere, some of these lazy habits can work against the life we say we want.
Below, I highlight the habits of eight weekends that tend to keep people stuck without even fulfilling it.
The hope is that by noticing these traps, you will be able to make more conscious choices in your deserves.
1. Sleeping long
Don’t make a mistake. Relaxation is necessary for both body and mind.
But I have seen how it sleeps until the afternoon can cause an extreme influence of sluggishness.
When I was twentieth, I slept half a day in the Saturday, thinking that I was “forming” lost hours. Still the rest of my weekend would fly, and I felt rude and disoriented.
If it is familiar, it can be a sign that this habit has gone its usefulness.
Sleeping up to 9 or 10 can be perfect. Especially if you burn a candle in both ends of the week. The problem is when it disappears throughout the morning, and you hardly rolled in bed.
This can lead to skipping breakfast, feeling illegitimate and not to think about anything target. Before you know it, Sunday night arrives, and you are left to “waste” valuable termination.
2. Binge-watching all seasons
We are all there. You start a new TV show on Friday evening, and suddenly it is Sunday afternoon and have seen two or three ways.
Showcase or two pleasure is nothing wrong. But after the episode, an episode can become a mind-numbing escape, not a deliberate choice for rest and fun.
One weekend, after the stressful week of consulting sessions, I fell from sunrise to sunset sunrise show. At first he felt good, but I was in strange emotional comfort, as I would take a mini vacation from my real life, but I forgot to return.
Since the team mentioned most mentioned that too much time is to be boring and leave us a sense of drainage.
If you find that watching hours of content is your only weekend activities, you can inevitably block yourself with new experiences, relationships and even exploring creative ideas.
3. Scroll in social media
Have you ever taken your phone “just for a quick look” on Instagram and suddenly went for an hour?
Social media can be a two-way sword. It is a place to connect, spread, and learn, but also a large rabbit hole in the inefficient time.
I used my scroll, calling the writing “research”, but the truth was said that half of it was meaningless.
The parties in today’s psychology, saying that unnecessary use of social media can feed the delay and unhealthy comparisons.
When we are lost in swinging, we don’t really live in our own experience. Our weekends are a priority to connect with friends, they do face to face or do something that makes joy.
Instead, we can passively follow everyone’s highlights, which can leave our trust and keep us “compare and discouraged” in the stagnant cycle.
4. Ignoring any form of self-improvement
It is not necessary to be a strict schedule for individual development seminars, but the weekend offers a fantastic window to learn something new to read the book’s head or using a new hobby.
One of my loved ones once admitted that he did not read any of the work documents. He always complained about the feeling stuck in life, but he never took steps to expand his prospect or skill collection.
Maya Angelu once said: “You can’t create creativity. The more you use, the more you have. “
If the weekend completely runs out of meaningless persecution, we miss the opportunity to invest ourselves. Reading just one chapter of a non-fictional book can cause fresh ideas. Performing a new skill for an hour can lead to amazing passion or even side hasty.
If you don’t pull yourself in any direction, you can stay where you are comfortable but stuck.
You may read my post on studying new modes and how small changes can create major life changes. A reminder is to develop and learn, even in the forms of bites, as it remains momentum over time.
5. Avoiding duties
Protection loves to disguise itself as “weakening.”
But we are deeply recognized when we deliberately run tasks needed to wash or cleanse or clean up attention. When we constantly push these cases on Sunday evening at the last minute, stress and rush to the weekend rest.
Once I had a customer who frightened Monday morning, just because he didn’t fold one washing point, he didn’t know what to cook during the week and never bothered to clean his desk. Small tasks feedback greatly weighed on her, making even more chaotic in Monday morning.
Behind it is the people of therapy, noting that the delay can turn into anxiety and guilt cycle.
It is easy to see how those feelings can encourage us to negative knot and prevent us from resting and ready for a week.
6. Missing social ties
Sometimes, after a busy work week, socialization can feel like another cavity.
Trust me, I get it, especially for introverts who calm down alone. But it’s the truth, contacting friends, loved ones, or even casual acquaintances can be deeply restored so that Netflix Binges cannot match.
I declined breakfast invitations because I wanted to “me”, but I realized that I passed meaningful connections that actually complement my energy.
Bren Brown shared once. “We don’t have to do alone alone. We never meant. “
By spending time with people who raise and inspire, you can have a very necessary prospect. You don’t have to be a luxurious night. A friend or low key gathering in the park can help you jump around the environment, get emotional support and even offer new aspirations.
If you find it forever insulated on weekends, consider it really nourishes or if it strengthens it stuck.
7. Passing for the week for the week
I used to go completely unprepared on Monday.
No plan for my consulting sessions, without dinner preparation, no to-do list, nothing. You imagine how chaotic items are felt on Tuesday.
The result. My stress was squeezed and I found that I reacted than strategically.
The weekend is an opportunity to take a little piece of time. Maybe only 30 minutes. To map the priorities of the week: What tasks are the most pressure that you want to make a number
Daniel Gebman, known for emotional intelligence, emphasizes how preparation and self-knowledge are key to reducing stress and increase performance.
Planning helps you to pass a more calm, more intentional approach from the “permanent firefighter” mode.
It doesn’t mean to give up your entire Sunday planning. A small structure can travel a long way to you to be motivated and excited for the next week instead of being afraid of Monday.
8. On a regular quality rest
I’m big to keep up to the end, friends. We often think that lazy weekends are automatically equal to good rest, but it’s not always the case.
Late Netflix sessions, junk food bingles, or even parties can sink the quality of our sleep. We can be in bed, but we don’t rest in a way that our body and mind will really be restored.
When we chronically sleep, we are deprived, we are more inclined to change the mood, low motivation and even bad decisions.
Michelle Obama once commented on the importance of self-employment, emphasizing that we need to take care of us, “before we can fill in someone else.” This is absolutely referring to rest.
Weekends that are lacking in a minimum time we deliberately turn off, enjoying a calming bath or reading a book, can we get more tired than last Monday.
And forever, the tired mind often slips confidently, making new goals or pursuing personal growth.
Final Thoughts:
The weekend should not be a trunk of a regiment.
They are, of course, during fun, spontaneous and leisure. But if we repeatedly deal with habits that leave us less energy, more depressed and creatively terminated, it costs a deep look.
Recognition of these helpless patterns is the first step to exchange them more.
Whether it limits your social media for 30 minutes or planning on Sunday morning meeting with friends, small adjustments can breathe new life on your weekend and your whole week.
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