{"id":12,"date":"2012-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/?p=12"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:14:09","slug":"take-back-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/take-back-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Back the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Take Back the Weekend<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/cofstein\/take-back-the-weekend\/schedule-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2853\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cofstein\/files\/2012\/03\/schedule-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2853\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, Sunday morning the part of <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a><br \/>\n where relaxation has finally started to kick in. you\u2019re spending time with your family going out for a meal or staying at home hanging out, or you\u2019re meeting up with your friends for a fun get together you\u2019ve been talking about doing on the weekend for a while.<\/p>\n<p>But then there\u2019s the other part of Sunday that lets you know that you\u2019ve only got one more day to enjoy <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a>. Then it\u2019s back to our five day work week where as soon as we walk in on Monday morning and something goes wrong we find ourselves wishing for the weekend to come faster.<\/p>\n<p>Admit it, all of us, myself included, who are in that upper echelon of people who really love our jobs are finding ourselves wishing for the weekend around Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part about <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a>? We only get two days off from our five day week and <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a> is normally the only time that we get to really catch up on projects around the house.<\/p>\n<p>Factor that in and think about whether <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a> is really a break or just another couple of days to work.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m here today to tell you all to take back<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">the weekend<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Make those two precious days a time of rest and play and stop using them as an extension of your work week.<\/p>\n<p>Now Chris and I have been just as guilty about using <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a> for work instead of play. We\u2019ve used it to look for houses, and work on our businesses. And trust me it\u2019s taken a toll on us when we have to get up and start that five day work week all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you deserve better?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an easy question to answer, because we all do.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is, what are you going to do to make it better?<\/p>\n<p>Are you going to keep doing what you\u2019re doing and hope that <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a> becomes a time of rest and not work?<\/p>\n<p>Or are you going to do everything you can to make <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a> what it was meant to be, a time of relaxation and rejuvenation for you and your family.<\/p>\n<p>We sincerely hope that you choose the second one, and that you look to us for guidance on how to make <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a> even more enjoyable than you could ever imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the weekend automatically going to be more relaxing for you? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest there might still be some time where you\u2019re having to work straight through<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right\">the weekend<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>and making sacrifices to ensure that the rewards and in your future.<\/p>\n<p>There are still weekends where Chris and I have to work and we\u2019re not nearly as relaxed as we\u2019d like to be on Mondays when I have to go to school and Chris goes to his job. However, we\u2019re finding that slowly but surely <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a> has become more of a relaxing time where we can spend the time enjoying each other\u2019s company and not always working on a business.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you deserve the same thing?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out how <a title=\"the weekend\" href=\"\/cofstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the weekend<\/a> has become a real weekend again for Chris and I please give us a call or email. <\/p>\n<p>Here for You,<\/p>\n<p>Jenn and Chris<br \/>\n(703) 574-3388<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take Back the Weekend Ah, Sunday morning the part of the weekend where relaxation has finally started to kick in. you\u2019re spending time with your family going out for a meal or staying at home hanging out, or you\u2019re meeting up with your friends for a fun get together you\u2019ve been talking about doing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,8,9,30,4,25,26],"tags":[10,24,43,11,48],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-chris-ofstein","category-corporate-america","category-current-events","category-empower-network","category-family","category-financial-freedom","category-full-time-income","tag-chris-ofstein","tag-empower-network","tag-how-to-blog","tag-jennifer-hill","tag-the-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/cofstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}