9 Things You Should Do Every Sunday For A Beneficial And Productive Week

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You either run the day or the day runs you

Sundays can be seen as a fresh turn of the week, the blinds of opportunities are opened with the stamp of time handed to our activities. The decisions made can influence the level of result you’ll get. Every day is a new beginning, more so every decision you make at the beginning of the week.

Every week presents a new opportunity to grow and press forward to your success. A new catalog is opened to be greased with productivity or procrastination where you either smash those goals or you get smashed by time.

Sundays are the days I prepare and get everything ready for the week to create a hive of positive experience.

Indulging in certain activities before the week commerce helps you feel more organized, more prepared to have a productive week. I will be sharing some of the valuable and important things I do every Sunday to tie a thread of productivity around my week.

I’ll be honest, I am not always righteous in abiding by this list; you know sometimes the human factor kicks in, but I try as much as possible to prepare my week and to set myself up for success so do not feel pressurized to do all these things. You can take baby steps; one goal or tip at a time that way you achieve more and can keep track of your growth.

Sometimes the change process can be overwhelming just make sure that you are not handling too much than you can maintain.

Taking charge on Sundays in certain activities influences your week; it’s like pouring a fresh flame of ignition on the 7 days of the week. It  helps you check and set a level of self-discipline.

Every week has its blueprint but when encrypted with proper planning the days unfold with productivity; empowering you with domination and control. So it is virtually important that you devote certain habits and routines to develop an amazing and better week of productivity.  Without much spilling let us dive into this.

The first thing to do in order to create a beneficial and productive Sunday is to;

 

1.  Reflect And Evaluate

Reflecting is the wheel of balance. This entails giving a review for the previous week; your plans might have been delayed, your goals disrupted by certain events expected or unexpected, or challenges, or you might have smashed your goals and achieve so much more than planned for the week.

Keeping track of each and everything that unveils and giving a proper review charge up productivity. You are able to mark out what you did wrong, how you can fix it, how to crush more goals and employ more tactics in deploying a goal which hasn’t been falling through.

A life-changing assessment tool that I have been using to effectively carry out a proper check on my life is The Life Compass; I am able to review my life plans and goals, evaluate my life and make valid adjustments, ask and answer some self- reflective questions, get in charge of my mental health, handle set back and challenges effectively and cultivate a positive perspective towards life. 

The journey of survival is pegged with several challenges and when the level of your progression is marked, you are highly motivated to push forward and do better.

Reflecting and evaluating enables you to analyze and think about the situations unraveling before you. It gives room for progressive questions like:

• What are my goals?
• What am I doing wrong?
• What are the notable events that unveiled this week?
• How can I take advantage of those goals?
• How can I reach my goals?

We all have several motivational formats and for some people, reflection happens to be one of them.

This step enables you to declutter your thoughts; there are so many thoughts and ideas we preserve in our mind but when we carefully explore them, we are able to untangle each banner of chaos accompanied with pressure, constrain and challenges.

You learn from yourself in this phase by revisiting things that have occurred and strategize better on ways to improve on a regular basis.

You can use this template to plan a reflection and evaluation for the week

(Day’s date)

• Notable events that occurred this week.
• How did last week’s action go?
• Anything else about (recent long term plans or goals taking up brain space).
• Goals check-in!
• Lightening questions.

 

Am I happy?

Have I accomplished at least one goal from my plan?

What is my gauge of gratitude for the week?

• Identify the things that are going well.
• What did you learn from your challenges of the previous week and goals for the new week.
•  And how did that help you grow?
• What part of yourself did you give voice to?
• How has your foundation strengthened through the previous week?
• Are you employing time and productivity simultaneously?
• How productive were you in the previous week?
• How much effort did you enact into achieving my goals?

You can make your flexible list of self- reflective questions to adequately track the patterns of your actions.  I subsequently share such reflection questions/prompts on my Instagram  weekly to get access to every one of them simply click here

 

2.  Plan Your Week

The second and vital point to employ in outlying you week is planning. It saves you a lot of time and there is a smooth development in the decisions and activities you make.

At the beginning of every week, I sit down and plan out everything I have to do and take care of, from shots, blog post, classes, appointments, dates, deadlines and after doing this I feel more directed and can easily navigate through the week with much more ease and less stress. If you follow me on Instagram you know how I carefully plan and outline my intentions, priority, and goals for a new phase. 

I usher in my Mondays with the idea of what’s happening with proper planning. When you plan,  you give yourself control on how you want the week to unveil. You have to outline your schedule as a strategic plan for your life where you hatch out the tactic and logistics to make your long term goals and dream a reality.

My goal to planner that has enabled me to drastically increase my productivity and have a perfect week is the Goal Chaser Planner. With The Goal Chaser Planner  I have been able to carry out a weekly reality check, plan my week the right way by creating a weekly attack plan, theme my days, create fulfilling routines, set my priorities right,  design action plans, schedule my activities so they don’t get overwhelming, create a productivity checklist, track my activities, in simple words, I am able to dream, plan and do! and I totally recommend this Planner to anyone who is still in search of the best productivity planner to buy you can purchase it here while it’s still up with a discount price. 

 

3.  Prioritize Your To-Do List

This entails breaking down your goals in the order of importance and deadline. Make one list for everything you need to do, assign certain things to certain days so that way you can have goals of when you will like to achieve them or get them done. It gives you a good idea of what’s coming up next and needs to be done.

Prioritizing your to-do list helps reduce the mental stress of managing all your activities at once, it gives a directive of knowing that you have formulated a plan of action that will set your goals into reality.

You may be wondering how to effectively prioritize your to-do list; start by:

• Making a list of all your goals, task and schedule.
• Identify the urgent and important ones that need immediate attention or have a deadline ringing in.
• Access a plan to take control.
• Focus on them.
• Cut out procrastination.
• Track your progress.

 

4.  Declutter And Organize Your Space

Clean space for me equals a clean mind; my environment and space have an influence on my mood and productivity so I organize my space every Sundays before the pressure of the week rolls in.

I function better in an organized space so every Sunday I do the laundry, change my beddings, arrange my closet, vacuum, mop and arrange my workspace.

Everything feels so much better putting them in their space it’s more like I am starting the week on an efficient scale. Even from simply waking up it enables me to navigate through the house and my mind without interference.

 

5.  Take Care Of Yourself

I always create a weekly improvement goal that will develop and transform me in some way; I don’t just focus on planning alone I get some ounce of distractions and take care of myself.

I usually reward myself for the goals crushed either by going for a movie marathon in the evenings, a date, going to the spa for a massage, washing my hair and installing new cornrows for the week.

Take some time to chill out, it’s Sunday and you do not want to be rushing all the way to bedtime, you need to take a little bit of relaxation time to wind down, binge-watch your favorite series, have a cup of tea, have your me-time.

Taking care of yourself is virtually important. Create time for that because we are swayed by a lot; we need to be up to our outlined schedules, meet up with deadlines, jingle several jobs all to survive. So in the process of wheeling a balance, do not forget to take care of yourself spend quality time with yourself.

Remember that despite the shifts, bridges, changes and narrow routes you still deserve to be celebrated and taken care of so do not get distracted by striving. You deserve the same outpouring of time, love and energy that you offer to your goals.

 

6.  Condition And Configure Your Mind

As the days of the week roll in, graft positivism into your thoughts. Striving can be overwhelming and navigating around so many things can be demanding and if there is a displacement in our mind, our mental state and productivity are questioned.

Hence we have to develop a positive mind on how we embrace the activities unraveled in the previous week, the unexpected disappointments and the challenges. Protecting the walls of our mental stage is important because where you decide to place and invest your energy in matters a lot.

If you tilt to the negative area, that is, dwelling on negative thoughts, you ruin your courage and pave way for negativity to take a hold on your strength.

Release the limitations of self-judgment, the fear of falling, feelings of unworthiness, self-doubt, shame, playing it small and moving backwards rather make space for self-acceptance, exploration, celebrating what you’ve worked for, self-validation, encouragement, more self-belief, showing up big, forward progression and growth in all that you do for the week .

Stay close to your truth. Remember “your why” even when people refuse to see you or choose to reject you; trust you are divine, stand in alignment with your light and ability to press forward as you take charge and dominate the clicks of time- Alex Elle

 

7.  Meal Prep

What you consume into your body is extremely important; I am currently working on consuming more healthy meals and less junk and I must say, it hasn’t been so easy especially with my crowded schedule.

Meal prepping enables me to prepare the food I want to cook or will like to get if I choose to eat out which I literally do 60% of the time. I am on the go so I really do not have enough time for cooking but I am interested in walking my way to learn and cook more.

So for the meantime, I eat out and with meal preparing, I am able to outline healthy food combination that will contain vitamins and healthy nutrients to keep me energized all through the week. It is necessary that you feed your body something healthy so watch what you consume by planning adequately.

 

8.  Plan Your Outfits For The Week

This may sound a little off, but before I employed this I usually just dive into my closet and get anything I feel comfortable with. Sometimes I try on several clothes before I can make a choice and that usually eats up my time in rushing out in the morning so I started arranging my outfits for the week on Sundays and then streamline it to a day.

And I must say this has been a lifesaving hack on cranky mornings when I overwork myself. I do not do this often but I try to as much as possible to save time and make right decisions rather than acting on impulse, adding to the rolls of fashion blunder by the stress of time.

 

9.  Write Out Your Goals For The Week

Do not allow the other listed activities to swallow this important tip. To create a satisfied, beneficial and productive week, you have to outline a blueprint of what you are intending on building for the week.

You can start by outlining your long term goals then breaking them into short term goals and then splitting them into daily goals.

One important goal for me for the week is to write and publish 3 quality blog posts so this goal always stays up as a priority on my to-do list. Outlining my goals also put me on my toes, thereby removing me from a comfortable stance.

A goal without a plan is just a wish so do not limit your dreams to when you sleep but let them burn out to reality by the effort you choose to make. Having goals is an ultimatum of surviving; you can’t survive and not have goals which are skinned from your purpose to thrive.

The backbone of success is hard work, determination, good planning, and perseverance -Mia Hamm

Plan your work and work your plan – Napoleon Hill

 

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Remember that unless a commitment is made, these tips are just going to drown deep in the waters of time so take your time to adopt these, one tip at a time and watch how productivity your week will roll out to be.

 

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