After spending a decent 10 hours having my eyes fixed on my television screen whilst playing movie after movie, I’ve come to the somewhat distressing conclusion that I’ve wasted an entire 24 hours unproductively. Now, a few years ago when a substantial amount of my waking hours was devoted to schooling commitments, this appeared the perfect day. But things are a little different now. It’s come the time where I can do whatever I like, pursue the tasks I wanted but lacked the time and even capability to complete back in my high school days. This then begs the question, why am I not making use of my time? oh, the irony of it all: ‘I have the time and capacity to achieve my goals but I’m too preoccupied doing absolutely nothing at all‘. I don’t think I can assign the blame to a lack of goals, because we all have goals . I think perhaps it is the enormity of those goals. I think sometimes we get caught up in the tremendous life objectives we’ve created for ourselves. Suddenly life becomes centered around one’s career, how much they want to earn and so on.  We tend to forget about the type of objectives we have the capacity to achieve on a daily basis. I am definitely a victim of this kind of thinking. I seem to have lost sight of the small tasks I might achieve daily. I could paint. I could draw. I could read. I could make a dance. I could go for a run. I could play piano. I don’t know if this is a stretch, but I could even initiate an intriguing discussion with a family member. ( this is just my subjective list of hobbies but if it resonates with you feel free to be inspired by it)

Perhaps the first step is to create thee short-term goals. Take a paper and pen and simply write down a list of the leisure activities you’d like to do. The thing that distinguishes these goals from the long-term goals is that they’re purely for leisure. That’s the great thing about them; they can be completed on your own schedule. I think it’s time we begin to make use of the free moments we have before time begins to inhibit our ability to do those things…