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Top 5 Weekend Habits of Super Productive People

Productive people can be a bit elusive can’t they? It seems like they have about a eleventy billion more hours in the day than everyone else. I’m a pretty productive person but even I have mates who manage to achieve Elon Musk levels of productive behaviour every weekend and I’m left wondering how the hell they manage to fit it all in. It can be so tempting to just take up residence on your couch every weekend but if you want to get ahead and keep your life sorted, here are the 5 weekend habits of super productive people. You should totally copy them.

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They get up early

I admit I’m pretty rubbish at this but that’s because I’m a bit of a night owl but I’m slowly changing my ways. I recently spent a few days with a close friend of mine and her family for her wedding weekend and they are the earliest risers I’ve ever met. I’m talking 5.30am, every day. I naturally fell into their sleep patterns and I cannot tell you how much more productive my weekends are now. 9am didn’t feel that late to sleep in on the weekend until I started getting up 7am. That’s 2 whole extra hours. It’s brilliant. Try your hardest to drag yourself out of bed a bit earlier on the weekends and get some washing/shopping/cleaning done. You’ll feel amazing, I promise.

They make time for the things they love

Productive people know how counter productive it is to totally work themselves ragged all weekend so they take the time to do the things they love. This is also an excellent way to get your butt out of bed in the morning. If you’ve put aside a time bracket from 7am to 10am to read your book, do some craft or watch some Netflix, you’ll be leaping out of bed in the morning.

They prepare for the upcoming week

My weekends are sacred and I try really hard to not engage in any activities I hate in my special time but if I didn’t do a little bit of preparation on the weekend, I would suck during the week. Each weekend I make sure to cook one freezer meal, book in my gym classes and do all my washing. It’s a pain but I pop on a podcast or a TV show and I can get it done in a couple of hours. Wednesday Carly loves Sunday Carly when she’s tearing around the house trying to find food/clean gym clothes before pump class.

They take breaks from technology

Productive people know that spending all weekend stuffing around on their phone on Facebook is one of the least productive ways to spend their weekend. Productive people would much rather spend 20 minutes catching up for coffee with a friend or watching an episode of their favourite sitcom than aimlessly clicking around on Facebook and Instagram.

They recharge

Productive people are perfectly happy to spend Saturday night at home. The temptation is always there to go out and party and really make use of your Saturday night (which is totally fine to do every now and then!) but a Saturday night spent at home, being quiet and still is one of the best ways to re-charge yourself for a productive week ahead.

How do you spend your weekends? Do you totally relax? Or do you go full productivity ninja?

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11 Comments

  1. The builderette 8 years ago

    Totally agree with all of these ideas. I’m a naturally early riser and love the fact that by 9am I’ve already got a bunch of stuff done. And, in fact, I get kind of annoyed with myself if I don’t get stuff done. Also a big fan of Sunday food prep – meals in the freezer and lunches in the fridge. Leads to easy dinners and not buying my lunch during the week which is so worth it.

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      Carly Jacobs 8 years ago

      Definitely! I’m so jealous of naturally early risers. It’s just not my thing. I’m a 7am to 8am gal. I’d love to be a jump out of bed at 6am person but I never have been!

  2. chrisatpb 8 years ago

    Yep, totally a plan ahead, morning person here – I am usually up between 5 and 6. However a few weeks ago I slept until 11 one morning. I have no idea why, but it put me all out- I was eating breakfast at lunch time and the day was over before I knew it. Felt like a total waste of a day to me. And totally agree – isn’t it amazing how you can be so slow to get out of bed if it’s a work day, but can totally bound out if you have a massage or hair appointment first thing! xx

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      Carly Jacobs 8 years ago

      Between 5 and 6??? You are my hero! My lord that’s early. I usually can’t sleep past around 9am but I know that’s super late for a lot of people!

  3. chrisatpb 8 years ago

    Just realised how many time I said “totally” in that post – totally silly!

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      Carly Jacobs 8 years ago

      I’m the QUEEN of totally. I say like a million times a day.

  4. Love this! My husband is a total weirdo – cannot get out of bed on weekday mornings yet bounces out of bed by 7am at the latest on the weekend. I don’t hate it (I get a coffee delivered to me in bed, so I can’t complain). Friday nights are our “fun night” so we’ll catch up with friends or grab takeaway and enjoy a bottle of wine. Saturday is usually spent blogging (me) and gardening (him) and we always down tools by 4pm so we can then relax. Sunday is generally a productive day for us: more blogging (me) as well as washing and grocery shopping. I love feeling totally organised and ready for a new week ahead.

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      Carly Jacobs 8 years ago

      Me too! We are such virgos! I try not to blog on weekends any more and I’ve been pretty good about it actually but November has been so manic I haven’t really had the discipline to cut it right off. I’m definitely not bounding out of bed at all at the moment… soon tired!

  5. I’m bounce around from one extreme to another. One weekend I’ll do the absolute bare minimum, the next I’ll be deep cleaning the whole house. No idea why, but always happens like that.

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      Carly Jacobs 8 years ago

      I think it also depends on what you’re doing on that weekend – If I socialise too much I’m pretty useless the following day. This weekend is pretty insane but Sunday is looking great! I’m focusing on that precious Sunday!

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