周末愉快，如果你能活到80岁，你也只有4160个周末，so don't waste your weekends.
The first step to controlling your weekends is making conscious choices.
It's so easy to plop down on the couch on a Friday night or Saturday morning and watch TV, but falling into these routines will suck away the few free hours you have. Instead of doing something by default, choose to decide how your time is spent.
Make appointments for yourself, even if it's only to read a book.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee says you need to have a plan for the weekend, setting specific hours or minutes aside for activities you want to do. Then you have to commit.
Planning actually makes weekends happier, and unlocks a key mechanism of joy.
The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real.
Plan three to five anchor events each weekend, but don't plan out every hour.
Vanderkam says most people cringe at the idea of planning their weekends. But placing three to five main, or "anchor," events on your calender for the weekend doesn't mean you need to plan them down to the minute.
Make a list of the things you dream about doing, and you'll find the ones you can do every day.
When the weekend rolls around there may be so many things that you want to do that you freeze up and end up doing almost none of them. That's why it's effective to have a really good list.
As you make your plans, don't discount something you haven't done in years.
One of Vanderkam's key secrets is to "dig deep." Even if there are activities that you haven't done since childhood, you can still make them part of your regular weekends.
Weekend mornings can be the best time to do things for yourself.
Weekend mornings are very easily wasted in laying about. Instead, set them aside for personal pursuits.
Establish small habits to create new traditions for your family.
"Happy families often have some special weekend activity that everyone loves but no one has to plan each time," Vanderkam writes.
Set aside specific hours for down time, and turn off your phone.
It's important to schedule down time, because otherwise you may never unplug. Vanderkam says Jess Lahey, a New Hampshire-based teacher and writer, has an official weekend nap time every afternoon between one and three.
Be sure to make plans for Sunday night so you don't sit around stressing about your job.
Planning something for Sunday nights is an easy way to avoid stressing about work in anticipation of Monday. That can happen even when you like your job, but for people who don't like their jobs, Sunday night stress can be draining and sad.
Keep chores, errands, and busy work to a minimum on your days off.
There are always things you have to do, but keeping chores to a minimum on the weekends is really important.
Make sure to unplug completely for at least a few hours.
Have a tech "Sabbath" day — or at least a few hours on the weekend when you unplug from your email and professional life.
If you live to be 80, you'll have 4,160 weekends in total, so don't let any go to waste.
Four thousand weekends isn't all that much. It's very easy to feel overwhelmed and simply do nothing (or meaningless things). But by falling into that trap, Vanderkam points out you may miss the best parts of your own life.
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