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    What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend: A Short Guide to Making the Most of Your Days Off
    What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend: A Short Guide to Making the Most of Your Days Off
    What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend: A Short Guide to Making the Most of Your Days Off
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    What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend: A Short Guide to Making the Most of Your Days Off

    Written by Laura Vanderkam

    Narrated 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 RR, 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateDec 31, 2012
    ISBN9781469086149
    What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend: A Short Guide to Making the Most of Your Days Off
    Author

    Laura Vanderkam

    Laura Vanderkam is a contributing editor at Reader's Digest and is the coauthor of Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds. She lives with her husband in New York City.

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    • 4/5
      I am getting ready to read her 168 Hours book so this was kind of a warm up. I love her writing style... just wanted a bit more to chew on in this little book. Good info for the length of the book, though.
    • 5/5
      Laura gives great examples of things you can do to plan your weekends and make them more pleasurable. I liked the concept of "setting anchors" and the suggestion to write of list of dream activities to do during the weekend.
    • 5/5
      loved every bit of this audio have a new audio book to listen too !
      Concise and inspiring