A barber I used to go to told me that he makes it a point to do nothing every Sunday. ( By nothing I mean only pleasurable activities, no appointments/chores)
His logic was, if I spend every Sunday as a holiday, that will be 52 days of mini holidays I get every year.
Since then, I have taken on his advice.
I try to spend every Sunday doing nothing. My version of nothing is geeking on fun projects, relaxing and binge watching TV shows I enjoy.
I've noticed that it allows my brain space to piece together all the information I read/gather during the week. The ideas and discrete information to solidify.
I find myself more relaxed and productive during the week.
It's not always possible to take sundays 100% off, but I try.
It's tempting to do chores, or schedule that appointment, but if I can push it off to the following week or schedule it before Sunday, I find my life feels more fuller, richer and more enjoyable.
If there's not an event which I want to head to? Often times, just doing some weekly cleaning & cooking.
Especially if it's a vat of caramelized onions, soup stock, pasta sauce, or something else where I can set it up and let it go all day with minimal interaction (resulting in wonderful time/flavor savings down the line. One 5-pound sack of onions caramelized in a slow cooker all day rewards me with delicious caramelized onions in anything else I cook for months).
The cleaning's good to have some ritual to it, as otherwise it builds up too far (It builds up more than I'd like anyways, but being proactive is important.)
Once that's all done, I can wander online, catch up on some reading, etc. It feels nice to be productive (in a very different way from work-productive), while still unwinding and enforcing a change of pace from the work week.
Visit church, often followed by a lunch with friends in the city. Once a month, roleplaying with my old friends from university. Other days, maybe my nephew comes over to play with my son, or my son visits him, or some other family visit. Or we just do nothing all day except maybe play some games.
At work. I work 6 days a week. I'm on a one-year contract, but by the time the PO was fully approved, it was already one month into its validity period; and I could not start immediately (I needed a month to wrap up what I was doing). So now I have 10 months to do a year worth of work.
In addition to working in software, I DJ, so Sundays are mostly spent cleaning up my place after a weekend of house parties and pre-gaming the weekend's outings, and editing and uploading my mixes online.
His logic was, if I spend every Sunday as a holiday, that will be 52 days of mini holidays I get every year.
Since then, I have taken on his advice. I try to spend every Sunday doing nothing. My version of nothing is geeking on fun projects, relaxing and binge watching TV shows I enjoy.
I've noticed that it allows my brain space to piece together all the information I read/gather during the week. The ideas and discrete information to solidify.
I find myself more relaxed and productive during the week.
It's not always possible to take sundays 100% off, but I try.
It's tempting to do chores, or schedule that appointment, but if I can push it off to the following week or schedule it before Sunday, I find my life feels more fuller, richer and more enjoyable.