Sunday Reset- For Your Business
Originally posted 3/18/22
Have you ever heard the term “Sunday Reset?” I have, but only just recently. It was one of those YouTube black holes I went down. You know the ones, right? You see a video title that piques your interest, and then you watch as many videos as possible? For the most part, in these videos, the Sunday Reset consisted of millennial women who spent their Sunday cleaning their house, washing laundry, doing facials, journaling, and setting up for the next week. I don’t know if it's a generational term, but I saw that and thought- “Hey, I could use that idea for my business.”
Before discussing that, I want to share the google definition of Sunday Reset with you. I was just curious if there would be, in fact, a definition. This is what I found. “What is a Sunday Reset? This is what I found.” Most often called a Sunday reset, it's when fancy Youtubers take an entire day and dedicate it to self-care and planning out the week ahead (which is now only six days long because Sunday, the seventh day, is no longer a usable day in your week)”. This is from the Well and Wealthy.org website article “ The 60 Minute Sunday Reset Routine.” I can’t help from giggling at that definition. The whole piece is excellent, so hop on over and check it out when you get a minute.
I found a sample of the typical “Sunday Reset” routine from the blog post “The Perfect Sunday Routine” by Erika Marie, a fashion blogger. We will use this list to migrate the typical Sunday Reset routine to one that helps bring our business into the following week. Marie’s list is similar to most Sunday Reset videos and practices I’ve observed:
Brain Dump
Plan the Week
Chores, Chores, Chores
Meal Prep
Pamper Routine
Charge Electronics
Relax and Do absolutely nothing
Some of these tasks work perfectly for our Sunday Reset, and we should move the other tasks over to personal or non-business. So let's get started with our Sunday Reset for Business. First, I would like to migrate these line items to our list; Brain Dump, Plan the Week, and Charge Electronics. What else will we add to our list? I’ve got some ideas, but first, I want to address the consistency of what successful entrepreneurs do on weekends. I think it's important not to skim over what a weekend is for but to maximize your success by using one day of that weekend to kick-start your week.
Google showed me through many articles that most successful entrepreneurs report hanging out with their friends and family on the weekends. Right? They are entirely accepted and supported. They take time to refresh, renew, and reflect. Sound a little like a hot bubble bath and a facial? Maybe. The bottom line is: there is a balance. No one should be business-minded seven days a week, every day. No, we need balance to be happy - we need balance to succeed in business and life. So when I create this reset list, please remember that I am not directing your weekend. I am giving you a shortlist of manageable tasks to make Monday morning and the rest of your week more productive. Let's get to it.
Number 1. Review your Week.
I love my Full Focus Planner by Michael Hyatt. The “Week in Review” section is set up to help us unpack the previous week and plan the following week on Sunday. Hyatt calls it the weekly preview. However, before we preview the week, we are first asked to review our week. This section of the planner falls just after the Sunday daily pages.
In summary, a few pages ask you to evaluate your week. Did you hit your goals, what could you do better, and how can you further improve? It could take 10 minutes or an hour, depending on you. However much time you spend on this step, a weekly review is something every business owner should do.
Number 2. Clean out your Inbox.
I’ve written about this in previous blog posts but wanted to dig in. I can never seem to get my inbox to empty. I could spend all day answering, deleting, and unsubscribing to emails, and the minute my inbox is empty, another email is waiting for me. A full-time job, that's what it is! That type of response to my email is very reactive. I act consistently whenever my phone dings or a notification appears on my computer screen. There is a better way throughout the week and a satisfying task on the weekend. I will focus on what you can do on Sundays; the weekly way to manage your emails will need to be another blog post.
To quickly process and clean out your inbox, all you will need to set up some simple processes. In your email account, set up the following folders if you don’t have them already:
Priority Respond
Read and Review
Delegate ( if you have a team)
Once you have these folders, you will go through your emails quickly. Most of what you need to know is in the subject line, so you can quickly decide on the email's destination.
Important and needs my attention- Priority Respond
Important, but I need time to review- Read and Review
Important, but I don’t need to be the one who does this? Forward to your teammate or put in the delete folder
Junk Mail/ Ads/ Etc- Delete or Unsubscribe and delete
Now that you've done that, your inbox should be relatively empty. It hasn’t taken away the emails you need to address; it's just categorized them so that you know what to do when you start your week.
Number 3. Clean your workspace.
It may seem unnecessary, but my at-home desk space can quickly get cluttered and dirty. I try to make a habit of cleaning my desk every day at the end of my day. On Sundays, however, I do a little more deep cleaning. Organize papers into categories like my emails and prepare them for receiving me the following day.
That's a short, 3-item task list for your Sunday Business Reset. If you want to add self-care, no one shames you for getting a facial or taking a bubble bath. You will, of course, have non-business-related things to get done as well. So let's keep our business Sunday rest list relatively short and simple and leave the rest of the time for us to do what we need to keep us happy, healthy, and ready to take on the coming week.
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Till Next Time-
Jennifer Cooper
JKC Mobile Notary
