How do you spend the majority of your weekends?

Our reader poll today asks: How do you spend the majority of your weekends?

• Relaxing with family/friends 34.64%
• Pursuing individual activities 25.91%
• Resting and catching your breath 18.98%
• Working and catching up 13.25%
• Some other activity 7.22%

Most are relaxing on weekends. It’s encouraging to see that 80% of you are spending time with family, friends, pursuing activities on your own, or just taking a break from work (and I’ll assume the other 7% are doing non-work things). For the 13% who spend their weekends/free time working, consider the cost and the impacts. You’ll never get that time back and you may be neglecting your own self-care and contributing to burnout. Work during free time also takes a toll on personal relationships which can contribute to isolation, depression, and further burnout. It’s unlikely your employer is paying you for those extra hours too so basically you’re decreasing your pay by 15-30% by giving away that free labor. Find time for you. You deserve it and you need it. The work will still be there on Monday morning when you get paid to do it.

– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 240,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.