has this ever happened to you? all week you look forward to Saturday a free day for you to work on
your project you don't have to attend any meetings or go to any appointments it's finally time for
you to catch up or get ahead you can write you can read you can finally make some progress
but then suddenly it's sunday night and you realize you barely did any of that you didn't
catch up or get ahead you feel discouraged and exhausted because you know that another grueling
week is ahead you eye the next weekend yes the next one will be different but will it there's
a reason why your free days can often be less productive than the days where you have to squeeze
your project into a busy schedule on those busy weekdays you may need to wake up early to do a bit
of writing or edit a draft during lunch or stay up a bit later to outline on busy days you don't
get a lot done but you do get a little however on saturdays when there's nothing to anchor your day
you may find yourself drifting away from your desk only to return when the weekend is over
why is that when we have a free day to do anything we may put things off we may wake up and decide
hey it's a beautiful day let's go get breakfast once we come back we'll do some work when we come
back we realize we haven't vacuumed in a few weeks we should probably attend that first then we feel
a little tired from our breakfast and chores why don't we take a power nap and as soon as we wake
up we'll tackle the project we take a nap and when we wake up our friend calls and we talk for an
hour suddenly it's dinner time so we'll eat and it just so happens that after the better halves
want to watch this new movie we can't miss that suddenly in a flash we successfully had a day off
however we failed in doing anything productive with our personal project
this issue occurs when there's no schedule on work days you do have a schedule you clock in
however on saturdays you can do your project whenever you want whatever you want may sound like
total freedom but it actually creates friction within or as steven pressfield calls it resistance
saturday is the day we have all to ourselves we can make the rules the thing is there needs to
be rules there needs to be at the very least a schedule for when you will work on your personal
project it's something you need to be accountable for whether it's first thing in the morning
immediately after lunch or before you do your chores in the afternoon you need to put down on
paper or on your calendar or tell your spouse that at this time you will be working on your project
you need to set the time aside to do it not wait for the perfect time because the perfect time will
be swallowed up by distractions scheduling it in is about making a promise to your wednesday self
it's about making the person you are on monday proud the weekday versions of you are working
hard to pay the bills but the weekend self is for the soul don't waste it on frivolous activities
there will always be time for that stuff but there will never be enough time for the work
you really need to make the work nobody else can do the work you must practice on
the work that comes from your heart so don't waste time when it's available procrastination
comes in many forms and there's no magic solution but setting a schedule a chunk of time where
you sit down and work shows the world you're serious there will be distractions on saturdays
you know this now so be prepared don't let it catch you off guard again thank you for watching
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