Here’s How Extraordinary People Spend Their Free Time
“Successful people don’t see it as ‘free time.’ They see it as the only time they have to do the things they really want to do in life and they don’t take a minute for granted.” -Nicolas Cole
Reinvesting your free time is one of the greatest uses of your time.
If you’re working a full-time job, with a commute and family and bills, you don’t have a lot of free time. If you’re like most people, the precious little free time you do have is spent on entertainment and distraction, not learning and growing.
This is low-level thinking, and it will lead you to a, frankly, low-level life.
I’ve been there. Back at my old telemarketing job, I was not doing that great. I was pretty overweight from all the pizza and craft beer and (admittedly delicious) burritos I was eating. I wasn’t sleeping well, because I was having too much coffee, because I wasn’t sleeping well — the vicious cycle of desk-job-death. I spent most of my free time in front of the TV or on the couch.
As a result, I had a pretty low-level life. I was tired all the time. My relationships were suffering. I was irritable and frustrated and bored. I was stuck, but didn’t know what else to do. So I’d play more video games and drink more beer.
