Leisure

• 00:04 The next sphere is leisure.
• 00:06 What is your philosophy about leisure?
• 00:08 Certainly, there are some people who believe that life is too short,
• 00:12 don't be frivolous, focus on work, make money,
• 00:16 household chores, there's no time for leisure.
• 00:20 Everyone comes from different circumstances,
• 00:22 you have to decide what your philosophy is.
• 00:25 Another philosophy is that human beings deserve leisure time,
• 00:30 that you can't work all the time, that to be a well-rounded individual
• 00:36 who really has a meaningful life, you need to have some time for pure leisure.
• 00:42 That is a particular philosophy.
• 00:45 Next, you have to figure out, what is your position in this?
• 00:49 What's your role going to be?
• 00:51 How do you have an identity in this whole realm of leisure?
• 00:57 If, for example, you view yourself as someone who works hard, and
• 01:01 you should play hard, then you need to have a clear-cut concept for that.
• 01:05 Are you someone who deserves a leisure time?
• 01:09 Not just at the end of 40 years of working when you're 65.
• 01:13 Not just for one or two weeks in the summer when you get a vacation.
• 01:18 And maybe not even just the weekends, but
• 01:21 are you someone who deserves to have leisure as a part of your life?
• 01:26 So that's what you've got to determine,
• 01:29 what is your role going to be in this whole particular realm?
• 01:34 Next, you got to look at your long term goals.
• 01:37 The problem here for so many people is they have no goals.
• 01:40 Their goal is, well I got free time, let me watch TV and
• 01:45 watch whatever Netflix wants me to watch.
• 01:49 That's not a goal, that's you being reactive.
• 01:51 You gotta figure out what your long term goals are.
• 01:55 If you want to get to be a 3.5 level tennis player,
• 02:00 that can be a specific goal you have.
• 02:04 You might have the goal of becoming a scratch golfer.
• 02:09 You might want to, these combine with your creative goals too.
• 02:13 It could be how you paint.
• 02:15 What you do in your leisure time, what you do for creativity can overlap, obviously.
• 02:21 So you need to have some highly specific goals for leisure.
• 02:27 It could be traveling to all seven continents of the world, or
• 02:31 six continents.
• 02:34 No offense to Antarctica there.
• 02:36 So, what are your long-term goals?
• 02:39 Short-term goals.
• 02:41 Your short-term goals could be,
• 02:43 I would like my family to socialize with another family at least once a week.
• 02:49 And to do something like go to the beach or
• 02:53 have a picnic or all go on a biking trip.
• 02:57 Specific short-term goals for enjoying leisure.
• 03:03 You need to have these.
• 03:05 Next, you need to think about your core daily activities.
• 03:09 What do you do on a daily basis?
• 03:10 For me, it's playing a game.
• 03:12 Quite often I do it with my daughter.
• 03:14 It's a simple word game on an app where you have all the letters scattered about,
• 03:19 you have to figure out where the words are there.
• 03:21 Now, sometimes it only takes one minute.
• 03:25 Sometimes it could take five minutes, but it's a little game,
• 03:29 stimulates the mind, and it's something purely for play.
• 03:33 And I get to do it with my daughter, too.
• 03:35 So, that's a core daily habit, I do that every single day.
• 03:42 Next, you've gotta think about non-core habits,
• 03:46 things you do, but not on a daily basis.
• 03:51 It could be jumping rope.
• 03:53 As I mentioned to you, I play tennis.
• 03:55 That's something I do for my physical sphere of life, but
• 03:58 it's also something I do for leisure.
• 04:02 It could be going horseback riding.
• 04:04 I don't particularly like horseback riding, but
• 04:07 I forget every five years about how much I dislike it, and I try it again.
• 04:10 But you need to have some non-core habits you
• 04:15 do to support your overall leisure goals.
• 04:20 And then finally, you need some tiny, tiny micro habits,
• 04:25 teeny tiny habits you do on a daily basis that support this goal.
• 04:32 I would get back to, I just read a joke a day.
• 04:36 It's part of the creativity one, but it's also a part of my leisure.
• 04:39 I enjoy it, and it only takes about five seconds a day,
• 04:43 reading a simple joke from an app.
• 04:46 It's something I do for fun.
• 04:49 What is your vision?
• 04:50 What are your goals for leisure in your life?
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