Make the Most of Your Weekends and Grow Your Business

Building your business is never easy. The last post talked about working full time and starting your business on the side, here you find out why using your weekends is a great way to play your business week. Why? Because weekends are great and enable you to get much more done in much larger chunks. What does a weekend, optimised for productivity and growing a business, look like?

Making Your Weekdays Support Your Weekend

The first thing you need to do is decide what you would like to do at the weekend. During the week, take the time to actually plan what you would like to achieve over the weekend.

For example, if you are looking at updating your website, look at the pages that need work during the week and make notes.

Or you would like to update your blog (you don't really think I write this every week on the day do you?) Think of a topic if you would like to write a series or expand on a topic you have already covered, think of a few titles during the week and jot down a few notes on how you will frame the article.

Structure Your Weekend

Friday

Reflect on what you have done the last weekend and what has been done right this current week.

• What were my top wins this past week?

• What didn’t I get done?

• Where did I waste time this past week?

• What was the best part of my week?

You can answer these questions out loud or write them down in a journal or private document. From then you can make a plan of action for the coming weekend. I would advise starting with what you didn't achieve so that you can cross that off the list, things left behind often fall further and further down the list.

Your weekend should be flexible. Things happen and you can’t always stick to your schedule. Ask yourself a few questions to get a better perspective on what needs to get done:

• What must I get done no matter what this weekend?

• Are there any potential distractions or commitments this weekend that I will need to account for?

• How do I eliminate them?

Once you have done that you can now get set on deciding what you need to do for the following 2 days. Generally, you’ll want to tackle the most difficult or time-consuming tasks first. If you don’t think you’ll be able to complete all your tasks for the day, do the most important things first.

Saturday

So, because you hopefully have scheduled the most important or difficult task first and get started.

As an example, you want to get started on contacting manufacturers for a clothing line. So you spend Saturday looking at the manufacturers based on your needs (local, national or if they specialise in specific garments and/or fabric like wool).

Once you have done that and made a list of maybe 15-20 manufacturers that you like based on your needs, you should start drafting emails that you will send to them based on your needs. and then move onto the next task.

Sunday

Sundays are a good time to schedule everything for the week ahead, if you use social media a lot for business start schedule posts. Also start planning for the week ahead including goals (business or personal). This way, you will know exactly what you should (and need) to be working.

If you don’t already, start tracking weekly goals for yourself and your business. Some example goals:

• I will easily launch my new e-commerce website by Saturday this week

• I will easily go to the gym at least 3 times this week

• I will easily get 10 sales to my store by Saturday this week

• I will easily double my store’s weekly traffic, from 100 visitors to 200 visitors, by Saturday this week.

Writing your goals down helps keep you accountable and brings you clarity. How do you really know what you want to accomplish in life and in your business if you’re not tracking it?

Repeat and readjust as needed

Now it’s just a matter of repeating this process and becoming really good at adapting it. You won’t be perfect and won’t always have the most productive weekends.

However, making an effort to work at it every weekend and putting in that work, even when it’s only for a few hours, can make all the difference.

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