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The Case for Being a Weekend Warrior
Working on your passion, side-hustle, hobby, etc has its limitations.
My passion is blogging and I’m a weekend warrior.
A weekend warrior is someone who has a normal job and then works on their passion over the weekend.
In this article, I’m going to change that meaning slightly and say that a weekend warrior is someone that has a normal job and works on their passion outside work hours. I thought about the advantages of being a weekend warrior.
Sometimes the restrictions you have are your greatest advantage.
For a lot us, we just want to get home from work to pursue our passion.
We tell ourselves the lie that if we could only find a way to do it full-time we’d be set.
Trialing a passion full-time
I tried it with my blogging. I did it full-time. I thought it was the answer to all my dreams.
You know what happened?
I sat at home and didn’t write. I watched movies, read books and told myself “You got all the time in the world pal to blog, so take it easy.”
I always had another thing to do before I could write.
Some days it was meditation, the gym and then helping my girlfriend with…