Hello 2026.
Welcome back to My Jamaican Vignettes. So happy to be in this new year and I feeling happy, grateful and excited. We are starting off our new January content schedule with: the weekend reset.
We’re getting our lives in order and together. In 2026, we won’t be living for the weekend only and we will use those 48 hours that we have to our advantage.
What Is The Weekend Reset
A “weekend reset” is a routine of using part of your weekend to prepare for the upcoming week by tidying up your physical and mental space, allowing you to start Monday feeling refreshed and organised.
There are several categories of your life that you can apply this to, your mindset and mental load, your living space, your calendar as well as meals and nutrition and wellness.
Let’s take a deeper look:
Organise Your Living Space:
- Declutter and clean
- Refresh your linens and towels
- Do any essential chores
Plan Your Week Ahead
- Create and set or write your intention and goals for the week.
- Meal or ingredients prep for at-home meals
- Review your to-do list and organise your calendar
Self-care:
- Grooming
- Bodycare
- Skincare
- Hair washing and styling
- Wardrobe and clothing ironing or selection
My Weekend Reset Recommendations
I do my weekend reset on a Sunday. I have a slow start on Sundays. I enjoy my morning coffee with my partner then we will eventually get to making breakfast and cleaning the kitchen.
One key element in reset is planning my week, I use the Bloom Daily Planner, I used this planner in 2019 and I am again using the 2025/2026 version. I highly recommend it. I plan my week on Sundays and set my top three weekly priorities. I primarily use this planner for my personal and home life.
After planning, I journal, I sit and free write all my thoughts, concerns, dreams, desires. I simply put it all down on paper.
During the morning, sometime after my morning coffee, I typically start laundry. Most Sundays I wash my towels and sheets but whatever is in the laundry basket may get washed.
I also typically shower, wash and style my hair, exfoliate my body, shave and do my skincare on Sunday mornings. (I can share a simple skincare routine morning and night in a separate post if you are interested). I can share how I got started with intentional skincare in December 2022 and where I am today and what I currently use.
Then the two biggest items for my Sunday reset items on my weekly to-do are cleaning my apartment and cooking a Sunday meal. My Sunday dinner or lunch often serves as lunch on Monday and maybe also Tuesday. So while I don’t meal prep anymore several dishes on a Sunday, I do consider what I can easily make for lunch throughout the workweek.
Lastly, and this is a recent addition to my weekend reset is that I have started doing some Sunday morning yoga.
And that is it. That is my Sunday weekend reset.
How about you? Have you adopted a weekend reset?
And I want to add a small note here at the end. Let’s not live for the weekend. Enjoy your lunch breaks, evenings after work, embrace low cost and fun and engaging hobbies, visit with family and friends often, have people over just to chill and watch TV and enjoy small bites. Live in the now with exactly what you have, exactly where you are.
Be well until we chat again tomorrow. Next up on our schedule is all about a slow reading year. Very excited to read with you guys.
I love the idea of slow Sundays. This year I’m aiming to do more meal prep so that my family has nutritious meals for the week and try not to rely on too much processed foods. I would have to do more things on Saturday to facilitate a slow Sunday but it’s a goal of mine to have at least 2 per month. Great post!!
Thanks Kimberly. Yes, do what works best for your lifestyle and see if some sort of weekend reset can help you throughout the week. Cooking at home is one of my goals this year. Aiming for no takeout or food deliveries in January to start. Thanks for reading and commenting.