If you want to have a life outside of work, weekends are not time "off work."
There are 2 ways 9-5ers usually look at weekends…
1) Time off work
2) Time to live your life
The first makes work the cornerstone in your life.
The second makes work just 1 thing in your life.
You get to choose how you look at the weekends.
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If you're like me, I notice myself taking the "time off work" mindset when work is overly busy.
2 ways I get myself back into the "time to live your life" mindset:
1) Use my morning journal session to think about the MANY pie pieces that make up your life (there are more than you may think)
Examples: work, family, friends, relationship, health, hobbies, home, organizations you’re in, etc.
2) Schedule time to act on them: before work, after work, weekends.
Pro tip: the morning can be a sneaky way to get health & hobbies in so you can have time for socializing evenings and weekends
Work is always scheduled, so make sure the other things are too.
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It’s up to you to decide if work if going to be 1 piece vs. the whole pie.
But always here to remind you that you're so much more than your work!