How do you spend your free time?

I am going to make the assumption that you have taken a look at the time equation and that you have a certain time each day to “work” and a certain amount of “home” time. It doesn’t matter whether you are at school or whether you work for yourself or for someone else; we all have a certain amount of “free” time each and every day. It may not seem like a great deal of time – but the question is what do you do with that bit of time you have between getting home from “work” and going to bed. How do you spend your free time?

I know that sometimes I can be incredibly nosy, but as you may have realized by know, it is those evening and weekend activities that you spend your time on are the things that make the difference between whether you are truly living the life of your dreams or whether you are living someone else’s dream.

What do you do when you get home from work? Do you immediately turn on the television when you walk in the door, and tell yourself that you will only watch a little bit of television and then get on and do whatever it is you said you were going to do? Well you may do, but the problem with the Television is that it is full of hooks to keep you watching long past the time you should have turned the box off. “Coming up after the ….” “Keep watching, this is going to be a very short break…”

The other big time waster is of course the Internet and email. You may try and convince yourself that talking to your friends on MSN and Twitter is not taking up too much time – but these kinds of activity can be addictive, especially if you have a dozen friends online and all wanting to waste your time as well as their own. You may also tell yourself that you are conducting important research – but lets face it, it’s not really is it? Do you really need to know the latest footie scores, or the latest news and gossip from Hollywood? Of course you don’t, but you have chosen to waste your time and your energy on things and people who do not care whether you exist, except in a superficial – come see my latest movie, buy my latest album kind of way.

Of course it is entirely upto you what you do with your time, but it is interesting to note that the people who always seem to be doing well – are the people who do not waste the few precious hours that they have every day watching television or spending hours and hours on MSN.

Working through the weekend’s activities should I hope have given you an insight into the balance sheet that is your life to date.

Every thing is a choice, a balance between what you know you have to do, and what you want to do. But as with all things, the question is, are you willing to pay the price of too much leisure time when you know you have assignments to hand in? Sooner or later you are going to have to pay the bill in full for your choice of activity, the clever people are the ones who make regular payments into their personal ledgers, so they have time to play with should something unexpected crop up.  How about you, what side of the ledger are you working on right now?

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