In this article you will know how to take advantage of the weekend in the right way to use your time to the maximum and increase your chances of creating a business.
Work, family and creating your own business are surely taking up all your time. You come home after a long day, spend some time with your family and finally spend the last few hours developing your business idea. Yes, it’s true, creating your own company while working for another is not easy.
For this reason, weekends become the perfect space to take big steps in the creation of your own company.
From Monday to Friday, the time you have to dedicate to your business idea is limited, tiredness does not allow you to concentrate and on many occasions the lack of motivation makes you decide to do nothing.
Those days when you can concentrate completely to a single activity, in this case your company, will give you the possibility of making great advances and seeing results quickly.
Whether you are looking to generate an additional income or create a company to which you want to dedicate all your time and replace your work; The tips that I will give you below have been of great help to me and I hope they give a boost to your venture.
It doesn’t matter how you structure your weekends, nor the strategies you use to increase your productivity; The most important thing to learn how to take advantage of the weekend is to change your thoughts and the meaning that these two days have for you.
How to make the most of the weekend to create a business.
1. Change the way you think about the weekend.
Do you live every day waiting for it to be Friday? Is Monday the worst day because the weekend is so far away? Do you go into depression on Sunday afternoons because your rest days will soon end?
We consider weekends as a short vacation. Like two days where we can get up late and see our friends. And leisure and entertainment come into play.
However, for an entrepreneur, these 48 hours become the most valuable time of all. Surely you are thinking that if you dedicate your weekends to “keep working”, you will never have time to rest. But if you are thinking this my dear friend, it is because You are not ready to start a business.
One of the sacrifices involved in building your own business is precisely that. While your friends are having fun, you are spending your time on something that is more valuable to you.
But be careful, I’m not telling you that you don’t have the right to rest. It’s only natural for you to do it, otherwise you’d melt down. What I tell you is that don’t see the weekend as an opportunity to rest. You must see it as an opportunity to advance.
2. Get up early.
The greatest leaders and businessmen have certain habits in common that allow them to perform with greater determination and skill; not only in their respective industries, but also in their lives.
One of these habits is getting up early, not only from Monday to Friday, but also on Saturday and Sunday.
It may seem silly to some people, but it’s a fact. According to the Business Insider portal, several studies have shown that getting up early is related to achieving goals.
Richard Branson the founder of the Virgin Group gets up at 5:45am; Michelle Obama starts work at 4:30; Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple catches up with the mail at 3:45 in the morning; Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets up at 5:30 to go for a 6-mile jog and meditate every morning.
And the list goes on. If these characters follow this habit, common sense tells us that there must be a relationship between this behavior and success. If they do it, it is because it has benefits.
If your priority is really to create your own business, you should give importance to the two days in which you can work on it.
Getting up early will give you more time, it will allow you to take advantage of the high concentration levels you have in the morning. In addition to avoiding the great chances of running into distractions as you go through the day.
If you want to stay one step ahead of the competition, you must do what most are not willing to do.
3. Structure your weekend.
Considering that the time you have during the week after leaving work is very limited, use those days to prepare everything you need to be super productive on Saturday and Sunday.
Make your activities from Monday to Friday support everything you have to do on the weekend.
- Establish activities.
- Work on the more complex activities first.
- Create blocks of time for each activity.
- Create clear goals that you can measure.
Keep in mind that many things can happen and you need to be flexible in case you need to attend to, for example, a family situation.
However, you cannot use this as an excuse to procrastinate. Remember that being flexible does not mean that you say yes to the first invitation to go out or to see the next episode of the current series.
Learning to achieve your goals requires discipline…
4. The key is concentration.
The key to learning how to take advantage of the weekend is your ability to concentrate. You probably already know this, but in reality few can apply it. There are many excuses and distractions that keep you out of focus.
If you have to turn off your cell phone, do it. If you must step away from the TV, do so. Imagine you’re on a 15-hour flight to Malaysia, Dubai or some faraway country and the airline doesn’t have any movie service; you are alone with your laptop and with an internet connection that only allows you to do limited searches on Google.
It is guaranteed that if you stay away from distractions, you will not fall into temptation. And only then, you can move forward to achieve your goals.
And remember, if you are really interested in creating your own business, you can read our book “How to create a company while working: Discover how to manage your time, manage your money and motivate yourself while creating a company and working for another” , where you will find all the information you need to found your own company, without having to leave your job.
