Planning Your Weekends

One of the things you should be doing to get rid of your procrastination habit and to utilize your weekends to its fullest

Every Saturday I wake up thinking how I will utilize the day to its fullest. I wake up early and sit in front of my laptop. Now as I have decided that I’ll spend this whole day working, I don’t mind spending some time browsing Facebook or some other stupid website. Then I spend some more time looking at few YouTube videos recommended by my friends. But it okay, right? Cause I’m going to spend my whole day working.

Now Its afternoon and lunch is almost ready so I take a break. After lunch a small nap doesn’t hurt so I take a nap. Now it’s almost evening and I’m depressed as I haven’t done anything. So I spend my whole evening and night doing nothing and feeling guilty about the same. This way I did neither get some work done nor enjoy the weekend to its fullest. Let’s see what I did wrong.

First of all I didn’t have a well defined measurable goal or a to do list. Having one would have helped me plan my work and get some sense of accomplishment as I mark the tasks complete (Asana is really great as task manager). Also keeping a fixed time slot would have helped as instead of thinking that I’ve got full day at disposal, I would have done focussed work in that time slot and rest of the day would have been free to do other things.

This list should also include things I want to do for entertainment. So instead of passively surfing through television channels I can read some nice book, watch a good tv series, go for an out or play 2-3 matches of Dota2. As long as these things are part of the plan I won’t feel guilty.

Planning is difficult, it goes against our instincts. If it was easy, we would all do it well. The first thing people procrastinate is planning. But if you can get over it and force yourself to plan your day in advance, you can easily overcome procrastination and live your life to its fullest.

So this weekend I used the above mentioned approach. This blog post is result of the same. Oh and one more thing, I wrote this after finishing House of Cards season 2 which was epic by the way. I hope it helps someone else also. Let me know if you have any suggestions or comments.

Enjoy your weekend !!!