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What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend: A Short Guide to Making the Most of Your Days Off (A Penguin Special from Portfo lio) by [Laura Vanderkam]

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Many of us breathe a grateful TGIF when Friday rolls around, envisioning a weekend full of both productivity and refreshment. Yet too often our precious weekends seem to disappear, eaten up by unproductive work or leisure that fails to energize us. Monday morning comes too fast, finding us still unrested, with too much still undone.

Time management expert Laura Vanderkam, continuing her series on What the Most Successful People Do, shows how we can take control of our weekends to get necessary R&R, while also using our downtime as a springboard to a productive week.

Drawing on real-life anecdotes and scientific research, Vanderkam explains why doing nothing can be more exhausting than doing something and why happy people make weekend plans in advance. She shares weekend tips gleaned from busy people such as politician and talk show host Mike Huckabee, former CEO Frank Baxter, and TV producer Aliza Rosen. She reveals the kind of weekend activities that make people happiest, explains why it’s important to unplug at least for a little while, and shares the secret of why Sunday night may be the most important part of any weekend.

What the Most Successful People Do On the Weekend is a fun, practical guide that will inspire you to rethink your weekends and start your workweek refreshed, renewed, and on track.

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Laura Vanderkam is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think and Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career Without Paying Your Dues. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, City Journal, Huffington Post, USA Today, Scientific American, and Readers Digest, among other publications. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three children.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AEDDPP0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Portfolio (December 31, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 31, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Best Sellers Rank: #650,122 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #408 in One-Hour Self-Help Short Reads
- #478 in Time Management in Business
- #1,520 in Personal Time Management

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Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours.

Her 2016 TED talk, "How to Gain Control of Your Free Time," has been viewed more than 5 million times. She regularly appears in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. She is the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds.

She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and four children, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.

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Former Drinker

Not bad, not bad at all

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 1, 2013

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I'm a fan of Laura Vanderkam's work. I enjoy the simple writing style with just the right amount of science to further the statement she is trying to make. Don't expect a large amount of new information if you have read 168 Hours. This is simply a short essay making a statement of "are you wasting valuable time on your weekends?" If you are then this book may be a wake up call. The point of the book is to plan your weekends. Not over plan it but make a few plans to feel like you achieved something.

It will be interesting to see where Laura's work goes next. It would be nice to see things such as "Most Successful people in small towns" since a lot of her work is revolving around activities near cities.

All in all pick this up if you want a quick read and reminder to plan those weekends. You only have so many

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A. K. C.

Save your $3 and use it to plan something fun for the weekend

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2013

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I completely agree with previous reviewers - in today's world of free or $.99 e-books, this tiny one was about 300% overpriced. However, I did take away some practical tips, particularly her advice to plan something for Sunday afternoons or evenings - I signed up for a yoga class after reading that and I'm loving it. This little e-book was a good reminder that I need to plan more fun things for my weekends to get back to "work hard, play hard," but I wish I hadn't paid $2.99 for that reminder. Here's my take-away in a nutshell: life is short and your weekends are numbered, especially while your children are young, but there's more time in each weekend than you think, so go make plans for Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday, especially if those plans involve excercise, faith/worship, and/or friends and loved ones. Now go grab a friend and buy a drink with that $3 you just saved!

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Kyle West

Good Points on Taking Control of Your Weekend

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2013

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I found this book to be helpful, though probably not as much as Vanderkam's companion book, What Most Successful Do Before Breakfast. However, I could see it proving its value to someone whose weekends slip away in front of the TV.

This book makes interesting points. There is a cultural idea that weekends are supposed to be spontaneous to be fun. This book dispelled this myth for me. Vanderkam suggests five fun, structured events on your weekend and have the rest of your time be free. I think this is a great idea, and makes me want to plan things more often (I am rather spontaneous by nature). When you plan things, they are more likely to get done.

If you find your weekends not being as full and exciting as you wish them to be, this book might help.

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TGIF. And plan your weekends.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2013

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We all know that Weekends are precious. Yet few of us plan for them. That's not very clever, isn't it?

The author encourages us to plan ahead for these precious days of the week. Exercising, socializing, and spiritual times are proven to make us happy and recharged. In addition, planning ahead for the weekend leads to anticipation, which has a multiplier effect on the goodness that these activities give to us.

A simple but wise tip in a short and readable form. May we all have better weekends and more satisfying lives.

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Concise reading for a little bit of inspiration

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2017

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This book was a quick read for someone simply trying to find some inspiration for the same rinse and repeat weekends. It wasn't earth shattering and the points here are conmon sense but it did remind me of the passing of time and that we should really make excellent use of our weekends to recharge effectively.

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Mrs. D

Packed with Practical Advice

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 12, 2013

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The test of a good self-help book is whether you can consistently, successfully use the content to improve your life. This book was a winner! It was short (hence the word "short" in the subtitle and the low price), which means you can spend more time putting the advice to use. Many self-help books spend a lot of time selling the author's premise and repeating the same ideas in different ways, but Vanderkam avoids this. She gets to the point, providing research-based evidence, practical steps and anecdotes. I've implemented at least two of the pieces of advice Vanderkam offers on a regular basis and have been more satisfied with the way I spend time on the weekends since.

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Kailash Choudhary

A good read. It was amazing to know how successful ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2014

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A good read.
It was amazing to know how successful people plan out not only their weekdays but their weekends as well!!
I always felt like what should I be doing during the weekends instead of just lying on my bed and this book just struck the cord for me by giving me insights as to what can be done or planned for a weekend.
Simply Loved it !!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 2, 2013

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I have a problem getting motivated, and with depression. This helped put things in perspective for me. Mainly make plans so you have something to look forward to. Whether you want to or not. You may have heard this stuff before but I think this is written in a way that you absorb it and want to do something. That said, have my habits changed due to this book? Not really.

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Aapjebaapje

A few nuggets woven into a short book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2020

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An average book. Not much to read...in fact, I feel like I've just read an extended article in glossy magazine. A reminder of the fleeting nature of time but not a classic TBH. I'd recommend you read 'How to do everything and be happy' by Peter Jones instead.

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Alison Perry

Brief but Important

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 14, 2018

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This is only 35 pages long but but worth reading if you are the kind of person who feels like you waste your weekends but don’t want to.

It’s very persuading of the idea that planning and doing things you want to do at the weekend helps you to enjoy life more. I guess this is obvious but as a person who tends to just drift time away the book drove home the idea that this really doesn’t satisfy.

It’s a useful book for singletons and families and I particularly like the idea of planning fun things on a Sunday evening to avoid that Sunday/Monday anticipation.

R. Aniq

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 14, 2019

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Excellent book, lots of useful tips. Fabulous style of writing.
Great insight. Enjoyable read. Short and crisp take ho message. Thanks Laura 💕.

Duncan Walling

Succinct and different and thought provoking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 12, 2014

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Really good book. Not very long (probably just over an hour's read) which actually is fine. The message is simple and yet she tells it well with different relevant examples to make you think. I have no doubt that this book will have improved my future weekends and how I look at them.

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Janet from Croxley Green

Also life changing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 18, 2017

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See my main review under "168 hours - You have more time than you think" also by Laura Vanderkam. I highly recommend both these books.

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