Second Saturday:Fourth Saturday:
How to Start a Second and Fourth Saturday Tool
Do you ever feel like you’re never going to have enough time? Do you ever feel like there’s never enough time to do everything you want? The busyness of life can sometimes feel like a never-ending cycle of overcommitment and underachievement. If you’re feeling that way, you’re not alone.
But what if I told you that you could have more time? What if I told you that you could start the weekend in the afternoon, not the morning? What if I told you that you could have second and fourth Saturdays, not just the first Saturday?
Yes, you read that right. You can have more time.
With a little pre-planning, some creative scheduling, and a fair bit of flexibility, you, too, can start a second and fourth Saturday.
This article will show you how, step-by-step.
Step One: Decide What Time Is a Second and a Fourth
The first step to making more time, and more Saturdays, is to decide what time of day you want to start.
Like most people, you probably think that you need to start your weekend earlier. You may even be thinking that you need to start your weekends early.
But is an early weekend really what you want?
Unless you have a really good reason to start your weekends early, like you need to start your kid’s school week early so they can have after-school activities, it’s probably better to start your weekends later.
Why? Because you have the flexibility to choose when you want to start your weekends. You can’t make someone else’s schedule for them, no matter how badly you want to.
Step Two: Decide When Is the Best Time to Start
Once you’ve decided when you want to start your weekends, you need to decide when to start.
Like most people, you probably want to start your weekends in the afternoon. After all, that’s when most of your day is already gone. You can’t expect to do any more work.
But is an afternoon start the best time to get started?
Well, let’s think about this for a second. The majority of people in the workforce are already at or near their desks by 3 pm.
This means that if you’re thinking of starting a second or fourth Saturday in the afternoon, you’re probably competing with many other people for the same limited time.
The best time to start is early. Why? Because you have the flexibility to choose when you want to start your weekends. You can’t make someone else’s schedule for them, no matter how badly you want to.
Step Three: Make a List
Next, you need to list all the things you want to do during your second or fourth Saturdays.
What do you want to do? Where do you want to go?
Make a list of all of your plans for the second and fourth Saturdays. Please put them in the order of importance to you.
At the bottom of your list, write down what you’d like to do on your Saturdays but aren’t that important.
Why? Because when you get to this point, you won’t have time for the unimportant things on your list. You’ll save those for future Saturdays when you have more time.
Step Four: Plan Your Pre-Weekend Routine
Now that you’ve got a list of your second and fourth Saturdays plans, it’s time to start planning your pre-weekend routine.
You’re probably thinking that this part is unnecessary since you’re only planning on having one weekend a month, but I promise you that you’ll thank me for this.
Why? Because when life gets busy, you’ll appreciate having a routine to fall back on.
Here are a few things you can do to plan your pre-weekend routine:
- Gather any documents you need before Saturday and then put them in an easily accessible location, so you don’t have to spend your weekend looking for them.
- Please list the groceries you need to buy before Saturday and put them in your shopping cart’s built-in scanner, so you don’t have to take your wallet with you when you run errands.
- Plan your meals for the week so that you don’t have to spend your weekends in the kitchen.
- Make a to-do list of all the things you want/need to get done before heading out on your Saturday adventure.
Step Five: Be Flexible
When you’re trying to start a second and fourth Saturday, the final thing to remember is to be flexible.
This may seem like a no-brainer, but it’s surprising how often people get bogged down by logistics when they don’t have to be.
If you’re trying to start a second or fourth Saturday and you’re planning on being in a certain place at a certain time, but that time is when your kids’ sports practice is, or if you’re trying to start a second or fourth Saturday at your kid’s school. Still, you keep getting stuck in traffic. It would help if you were flexible.
You need to be able to shift your schedule to fit the situation. You need to be okay with changing your plans, and you need to be okay with starting and ending your weekends when you have to, not when you want to.
Conclusion
So, how does all this information about when to start your weekends relate to the original point of this article?
The truth is that you can have more time. You can start your weekends later and make more Saturdays out of them.
And you can do it without feeling like you have less time because you’re just as likely to get everything done in a day as you are not to get everything done.
The key is to plan your weekends ahead of time and be flexible enough to shift your schedule.
