How weekends are silently sabotaging your future and what to do about it
You’re either using your weekends to get ahead or fall behind. Here’s how to turn them into a weapon.
You’re wasting the most valuable part of your week (and don’t even know it)
Learn to stop digging your own grave.
Weekends.
48 hours of prime time where you have zero obligations to anyone but yourself.
And yet, most people spend them like they’ve got an infinite supply.
You’re not tired — you’re mismanaging your time.
If you’re drinking, binge-watching Netflix, and generally being a bum, congratulations — you’ve joined the masses digging their own graves.
The problem isn’t that you’re tired.
The problem is you think you’ve earned the right to slack off.
You haven’t.
You’re spending your weekends like they’re a free-for-all, a 48-hour binge of poor decisions, hangovers, and TV marathons.
That’s the problem.
Instead of using that time to actually improve your life — maybe read a book, hit the gym, meditate, you know, adult stuff — you’re busy recreating yourself into a slothful, unshaven version of your worst self.
And let’s face it, no one enjoys doing the walk of shame on Monday.
3 questions people ask about it:
1. “But I work hard all week, don’t I deserve a break?”
Here’s a brutal truth: If you’re asking whether you deserve a break, you’ve already lost.
People who win aren’t out there wondering if they’ve earned downtime.
They’re using their weekends to get ahead while everyone else is letting their foot off the gas.
Grant Cardone doesn’t care about your feelings when he says weekends are for the weak.
And guess what?
He’s right.
You’re either preparing to dominate or preparing to get dominated.
It’s that simple.
You’re telling me that your 9-to-5 is so draining that you absolutely must spend your weekend curled up with cheap booze and Love Island reruns?
Nah.
You’re not a Victorian coal miner.
The truth is, you’ve got enough energy to burn calories swiping through dating apps.
You can use some of that juice to better yourself.
Stop wasting weekends nursing a hangover like it’s a pet.
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2. “But doesn’t everyone need a break? Balance, right?”
Balance isn’t what you think it is.
You’re not balancing anything if you’re sabotaging five days of hard work with two days of doing nothing.
That’s like pouring water into a leaky bucket and wondering why it never fills up.
Balance doesn’t mean taking your foot off the gas; it means keeping it at a sustainable pace — without crashing into laziness.
“I’ll spend 5 days being a productive human and 2 days pretending I’m a half-witted gnome.”
That’s balance, right?
But nah, balance doesn’t mean pouring all your ambition into the workweek and saving your stupidity for the weekend.
Your “break” should still be about bettering yourself, not regressing into a state of human Jelly Belly.
Prince Ea called it: you’re either creating a better version of yourself or, uh, ‘worse-vibing’ into mediocrity.
3. “Can I blame my parents for this? Like, my upbringing wasn’t great.”
Here’s a fact: If you’re still blaming your parents for where you are in life, you’ve missed the plot.
Your upbringing doesn’t give you a pass to be mediocre.
It doesn’t matter how you were raised — what matters is what you do now.
You’ve got money to go out and drink but can’t spare a tenner for personal development?
You’re not broke; you’re misaligned.
If you’re still pointing fingers, let me save you some time: The only person you can blame for your current situation is the one in the mirror.
Blaming your parents after a certain point is like blaming your shoes for not tying themselves.
It’s got an expiry date.
How is it that you’re an expert at using your card for nights out but when it’s time to invest in your own growth, suddenly you’re skint?
It’s not your upbringing that’s holding you back — it’s your choices.
You’ve got money for shots but can’t scrape together a tenner for a self-help book?
Interesting.
Use your weekends as leverage — or stay stuck forever
There’s a simple solution here, but most won’t take it.
Why?
Because doing what’s easy feels good in the short term.
But here’s the catch: What feels good now is exactly what’s keeping you in the same spot.
Want to get ahead?
Use your weekends like they’re precious.
Not like they’re throwaway days where productivity goes to die.
Read.
Plan.
Train.
Do anything that moves the needle forward.
When Monday hits, you’re either prepared for success, or you’re dreading the week because you just spent your weekend making bad decisions.
The choice is yours.
Treat your weekends like they matter.
Because they do.
Your mates might be out there collecting hangovers like they’re Pokémon, but you?
You’re going to do better.
Take your weekends back.
Sure, have a little fun — but make sure part of your weekend is about self-improvement.
Read, meditate, plan your future like you’ve got your shit together (even if you don’t).
It’s about balance, but not the kind that tips you face-first into the kebab shop at 3 AM.
The 3 benefits of changing your weekends
1. You’ll be leagues ahead of your friends by Monday.
While they’re dragging themselves through the week, fuelled by regret and energy drinks, you’ll be sharp, focussed, and — dare I say — smug about it.
2. You’ll stop feeling like garbage.
Instead of waking up on a Sunday feeling like someone crammed a cotton ball in your brain, you’ll actually feel refreshed, dare I say, like a functioning adult.
Imagine that!
Imagine waking up clear-headed, with the satisfaction of knowing you did something worthwhile.
That’s the feeling you want.
3. You’ll become unstoppable.
The more you build momentum over the weekend, the easier it is to keep it going through the week.
Success compounds.
Start compounding it over the weekend.
You’ll actually get shit done.
Shocking, I know.
You’ll be productive, growing, and — gasp — happy with the progress you’re making.
Stop waiting for motivation — it’s never going to show up
Let me be real with you: If you’re waiting for motivation, you’ve already lost.
Motivation is fleeting; discipline isn’t.
The people who win aren’t out there looking for the next wave of inspiration.
They’re grinding every day, weekends included.
You want to win?
Stop waiting for motivation to knock on your door like some magic fairy.
Start putting in the work — whether you feel like it or not.
Motivation isn’t a bloody unicorn you wait for to prance into your life.
It’s something you generate by taking action, even when you don’t feel like it.
So stop whining and start doing.
The choice is yours — own your weekends, own your life
You’ve got a choice: Keep using your weekends to turn yourself into a half-baked version of what you could be, or take charge and craft the life you want.
Because if you don’t, someone else will program your life for you — and spoiler alert, it won’t be the life you actually want.
So, what’s it gonna be?
Join the rest of the herd at the pub or do something that’ll make Future You fist-bump Present You?
Purpose over pension, baby.
Your weekends are either a weapon or a weakness.
You can keep blaming external circumstances, your job, your upbringing, or whatever else you want.
Or you can step up, take responsibility, and start using your weekends to set yourself up for the life you actually want.
There’s no middle ground here.
Either you’re getting ahead or falling behind.
So, what’s it going to be?
More excuses, or are you finally ready to get serious?
Now, if you don’t mind, share this with your mates (you know, the ones who need this kick in the ass).
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