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1. Slide 1: Weekend ! It all starts when the Week Ends! 13th November 2008 Rupa Patil Rupa.Patil@Hotmail.com
2. Slide 2: Objective How best we can optimize our Weekends? All work & no play, makes Jack a dull boy. & Vice-Versa?
3. Slide 3: Is it worth considering? On an Average, we get: 8 days of weekends per month = 192 hours = 112 hours for Weekend Utilization per month = 14 hours for Weekend Utilization per Day (After deducting 10 hrs of sleep/rest per day) This sums to 35% of total available time per week for utilizing our Weekends
4. Slide 4: General Weekend-view … ๏ Family Activity ๏ Social Networking ๏ Office related Activity ๏ Zzz…
5. Slide 5: Weekend Warrior’s view: ๏ <Personal> Weekend Warriors: - Startup related work - Self-Improvement - Sports & Recreation ๏ <Social> Weekend Warriors: - Community services - Voluntary services - Spread Smile
6. Slide 6: … So, … How do you spend your weekends?
7. Slide 7: Good, but not the best! … About ‘General-Weekends’ ๏ Family Activity: Absolute ‘Must-Do’! Activity - Always ๏ Social Networking: Need it, but… - Occasionally ๏ Office related work: Utilize workweek instead! work - Rarely ๏ ZZzz… Ahem!!! ZZzz - NOT unless absolutely required
8. Slide 8: & Then, there are Weekend Warriors…
9. Slide 9: <Personal> Weekend Warriors Personal Startup related work - Weekends: Aren’t they best to boost your creativity & unleash that biz idea? Self-Improvement - Acquire skills that you always dreamt to master (Certifications, Linguistic, Creative Writing, Puzzles…) Sports & Recreation - Go trekking, Biking, Explore your city/state, Workout, Salsa, Guitar, Adventure trip, Theatre…
10. Slide 10: Some Weekend Warriors are simply “WOW”
11. Slide 11: <Social> Weekend Social Warriors Community services ^52 children’s & 37 Old age homes, Bangalore Think & Act Green Voluntary services Min. of 423* NGOs awaits you! (Karnataka) Create Social Awareness Spread Smile Wait a while & SMILE – it’s contagious! ^ As per Karnataka govt website: http://www.dwcd.kar.nic.in/dwcd_english/general.html and google local listing *423 NGOs: as in year 2000 per www.indiachildrenstat.com
12. Slide 12: Some Green NGOs of Bangalore Courtesy: www.TreesforFree.org
13. Slide 13: Bangalore’s Green NGOs ๏ Eco Watch India: www.ecowatchindia.org ๏ Environment Support Group www.EsgIndia.org ๏ Green Dream www.greendream.rbitc.org ๏ Green Peace www.GreenPeace.org ๏ Saahas (solid waste management) www.saahas.org And tons of others …
14. Slide 14: Community Service, Yes, …But How?
15. Slide 15: ‘Little help’ - helps! ๏ Community Development: Extend your skills [Thru’ NGOs like “iVolunteer”,“ConcernIndia”,“MayaIndia”..] ๏ Website: Help low-key NGOs with their website ๏ Materialistic help: To old age homes, Children’s home, home for disabled etc. [clothes, blankets, meals, stationary, water filters, books, medicines etc…] ๏ Support: Provide consultation to the needy (Orphans, street kids, Women-in-need, senior citizens..) Help NGOs in fund-raising programs, camps etc
16. Slide 16: In a Nutshell… ๏ General Weekends - Family Time .. A Regular affair - Offline work, Party, Sleep … Ocassionally Preferably 3 out of 8 days of weekend per month ๏ Warrior’s Weekends - Startup, Self Improvement, Sports & Recreation - Community Services & Voluntary Services Preferably 5 out of 8 days of weekend per month
17. Slide 17: Fresh look:
18. Slide 18: … But most importantly … Spend time & Spread love With your loved ones & With those who need love!
19. Slide 19: & for that… “Save Time to Spend Time” & “Spread Smile to Spread Love”
20. Slide 20: Thank you, Ladies & Gentlemen! Please shoot your questions to: Rupa Patil Rupa.Patil@Hotmail.com