Daksh Haldar
July 16,2019
The amount of free time, we as humans have now was never the same as before. As primal beings, we used
to spend our whole life looking for ways
to survive and to keep us and our community safe.
But now, life has become much easier to survive and everything is ready-to-make, we have lots of time
and many ways to entertain ourselves and
engage ourselves in meaningless activities.The world is at your fingertips
Even the food is delivered to our premises making us more sedentary and less mobile. We are all living
vegetables.Even the food is delivered
to our premises making us more sedentary and less mobile. We are all living vegetables.
We just choose to fill the voids with crappy stuffs like aimlessly scrolling through social media, or
doing meetings where isn’t necessary, talking
aimlessly to unnecessary people when you have better things to do.
I believe, the only difference between someone stuck and someone making it big is the way he uses his
time.Here are some of the ways with which you
can get a hold of your free time to be more happy and fulfilled
If there is only one keystone habit you want to concentrate on and acquire, then I will highly
recommend practicing meditation
even for as little as 10 minutes a day.
It will make you live in present which is going to bring happiness to you which is the end goal for
most of us. It also helps is
focusing more on your goals and jitters away distracting habits eventually.
Age old saying-‘Health is Wealth’. And trust me, it is. It is one of the most important things in the
long run. You can
work 16-18 hours a day and make your business prosper in 2 years, but soon you are going to be a prey to
many diseases.
Then you won’t be able to work even for 2 hours a day. Who is going to manage your business then.Keep a
check on your health.
Exercising everyday has a number of benefits including:
- More energy throughout the day.
- Better physique.
- Increased Happiness.
- Increased Happiness.r.
And Many More.
Starting a business has never been easier than it is after the advent of the Internet.
You can write
blogs, start your
instagram page or even a youtube channel. There are many more options to choose from. It
may take time
but it is going
to be a hit as there is an audience for everyone these days. You just need to pick your
niche and go
hard on it. It will
soon start making you money and might overtake your salary if you stick long enough with
it.
Another activity/habit specially recommended by most of the great minds of any
generation.As we
graduate, most of us give
up on learning which is one reason most of us aren’t able to improve much.Books are
available on every
topic, from currently
hot Artificial Intelligence to age old Mediation, from cooking to farming, from money
management, home
science, from animal
rearing to parenthood.You don’t need to get a degree to learn all of this. Nor do you
need to pay
tuition fees for learning.
It is all available in the books.Just grab one which is the most intriguing to you or
the one you need
the most.
Be it learning to play guitar, taking a calligraphy class, taking a cake making class, or
even a
knitting class,
learn a new language, or do something you would like to do. You might have given up on a
passion of
yours in your
school days for studying or some other reason.
It is the time to work on it.
It is time to try it out.
Don’t miss out on it.
One of the best things to do in your leisure time is to set and review your goals.It is a
great way to
reflect
on your progress and it keeps you on track with the end goal. You can start by making
weekly, monthly,
6-monthly
and annual goals.I personally don’t set any goal for more than one year in the future as
it is highly
unpredictable
to assume the life I will be living 1 year from now.
Coming back to a clean and organised place after a hard day at work or at college is such
a mesmerising
feeling.You can just get into the comfy sheets and relax.Cleaning the place can be a fun
habit if you
play your favourite songs while doing so.It lowers the stress anxiety and fatigue and
also helps you
defeat the deadly habit of procrastination.
Reviewing your budget if you already have one is a great exercise to save a few hundred
bucks.And
making
a budget in advance creates a psychological barrier which is hard to cross. You will
never be in debts.
You can also observe and unlearn your bad spending habits.
I tried to make myself clear in the last blog that you can be more creative by getting
bored in this
ever
distracted world.Give it a read if you haven’t already. It will amaze you. It will let
you think of your
present, past and future, keeping at the core the ways in which you can improve your
life.You will start
thinking about your choices and how you can better them. This is called Autobiographical
thinking
explained
in the last blog.
Now with your time in your hands, explore more to find yourself. Try to find things you
like and don’t
like. It will
be amazing to know that you weren’t doing certain things before which you love to do and
you are pretty
good at them.
If you aren’t able to free your time, use YourHour application on your Smartphones and
go nuts.
Learn something new, read something old, explore the unexplored and be more fulfilled.
What do you people do in your leisure hours?
Comment down to tell us. Maybe we can share it with others.
Keep sticking with us. Until the next read, See ya!