The weekdays can be challenging when you’re ferrying kids on the school run or you’re heading off to the office and working a different job in the evening. That means your weekends have only got to be filled up with love, care and as much attention as you can give yourself as possible. When you spend five days a week constantly hustling, the one thing you don’t want to do on the weekend is to work your brain to do more hustling. However, that doesn’t mean you should completely switch your brain off.

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In fact, one of the best things that you could do is find activities that give your brain the kind of stimulation that helps you to relax and unwind. Whether that’s playing solitaire, completing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, or reading a good book, you need to make sure that you are doing the one activity that you often avoid during the week. You’ve got it – that’s resting. Let’s take a look at some things that you can do when you find yourself solo for the weekend.

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  1. Rest as much as you can.The weekdays and stacked up responsibilities on your Monday to Friday calendar can leave you no time to get the right rest. By the time you finish work and stuff down a very quick dinner, you pass out in bed. But it’s not really resting when your body is just craving sleep. You need to literally take yourself somewhere to relax and rejuvenate, whether that’s taking a nap or going for a spa day and having a massage.
  2. Do something you enjoy. While your weekdays may be stuffed with commuting to the office or going to meetings, your weekends can be something else entirely. If you manage to fit most of your house chores in around your job during the week, then you can take the weekend to get your spark back. You can do something creative, or you could doodle, do yoga, read a book, play games on your phone. Anything you want that makes you feel like a human being and not like a worker bee is exactly what you should do.
  3. Give some time to some other people. Instead of staring at your boss in the face or rubbing shoulders with your coworkers, go and spend time with the new babies in the family or go and look after your mum for a weekend. It’s nice to go and place yourself among people who just want you to be yourself.

Slow down. Weekdays can feel like a big rush from the moment the alarm goes off to the train you have to catch in the morning and the train you have to catch on the way home. Slow down at a pace at which you are doing things over the weekend so that you can enjoy every moment rather than rush through them. You don’t have to keep up with the fast pace of your life when it’s Saturday morning and you just want to go out for brunch.