Wasting time at work undermines WHAT you're trying to achieve.

Wasting time in your personal life undermines WHY you're trying to achieve it.

Your personal time does not need to be rigidly structured to make sure you optimize every moment.

​But if you didn't get to do the things you love during your time off, there's something simple you can do about it.

Wasting time at work undermines WHAT you're trying to achieve.

Wasting time in your personal life undermines WHY you're trying to achieve it.

Your personal time does not need to be rigidly structured to make sure you optimize every moment.

​But if you didn't get to do the things you love during your time off, there's something simple you can do about it.

Hey, good morning, everybody. It is Monday morning. If you are in the United States of America, you might be at a different time of your Monday in a different part of the world. I usually don't connect with you this early, but want to check in with you and see how did your weekend weekend go? Now, you might have a different schedule, but if you have a weekend, let's say you had Saturday and Sunday off, or if you had Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or whatever it might be, how did that go?

Did you get a chance to do the things that you really want to do with your weekend? A lot of the times, there's effort that we put into making sure that our weeks, our work weeks go really well. And we optimize and we plan and we schedule and then very often that process, the energy required for it leaves us so drained that we reach our weekend and we just kind of take whatever is there. And if no event planner did event planning for us, and if nobody scheduled something for us, we just kind of receive whatever was sort of given to us. And, of course, it's really what we've given ourselves, either by default or by design.

So I want to give you just a real quick concept here to consider how you can make this upcoming weekend the best one you've had in a long time. And it's really simple. Write down either three things that you'd like to do this weekend in order in your smartphone, on a piece of paper, a small sticky note that you're going to carry with you, something that you're going to have in front of you, maybe stick it on your mirror, and again, put those in sequential order. What's most important to you. And just earlier in the week, by about Wednesday at the latest, plan exactly when you're going to do those things.

Now, if you say, well, wait, I have a two day weekend, well, then just plan two things. Plan one thing on one of the days and one thing on another day. And it doesn't have to be something that's huge. It doesn't have to take the whole day. It doesn't have to be fancy, it doesn't have to be expensive.

But it needs to be something that energizes you. It needs to be something that you enjoy. It might be something as simple as planning time to catch up on the phone with an old friend, planning time to do the hobby that you most enjoy, creating time for you and your partner or your spouse to have time and let the kids kind of do their thing for a while. And maybe, yeah, you do put them on their devices for an hour or two and you do your own thing, whatever that looks like. But just keep it in mind this basic concept that every week we come in with our best energy.

And as I mentioned. We usually don't go to connect on a Monday, but sometimes by the time the messages, the podcast episodes stuff that I send out are usually out. Very often people are kind of they're done with their work week and they're just going to roll through and they're counting down until Friday. So I encourage you to create a very simple list of what you'd like to see happen this upcoming week. Put it on your smartphone, on your mirror, make sure that happens and if you get a chance, let me know how that goes.

​As always, I look forward to helping you impact more people and make more money in less time doing what you do best so you can better enjoy your family, your friends and your life. Hope you have an awesome week this week. Thanks. Bye.