With the advent of industrialization, many people can now have free time to devote to non-work activities. Some give away and undervalue that time, but others, with awareness of success, know that the key to progress is precisely in the use of those valuable hours. Keep reading.
Free time has always been a longing for human beings. The requirements of work for survival and other multiple demands of everyday life have made us long for moments for rest, enjoyment, leisure and inner growth.
Intimately, we long to get away from stressors and stop saying, "I need more time" or "I don't have time," and to achieve a degree of control and true enjoyment of time.
Every day, we dedicate between 8 and 12 hours only to work, if we add the regular hours and the times occupied in thinking about the next day, personal grooming, and transfers and waiting.
Fortunately, in industrialized societies, science and technology have made it possible to create systematized production methods that make life easier for us, and open up new possibilities for using our free time, which has increased.
Appliances, computers, and other equipment can be seen as useful time and energy savers, and the hours that used to be spent producing and surviving can now be spent on other useful or satisfying activities.
This change in our use of time has allowed the emergence of a gigantic industry dedicated to entertainment, generating thousands of jobs and billing billions. Novel lifestyles have also developed for people who live to care for others in their spare time.
Another consequence is that today, more and more, people seek the satisfaction of their particular wants and needs.
Free time is invested by most of the people, in ordering, making repairs, cleaning, caring for the children, going for a walk with the family, traveling, sharing with friends, listening to music, watching movies and television, surfing the internet, sleeping and rest, or just to do nothing.
However, too many people little value the great potential of free time, they do not know that it is an essential space for improvement, and they lose or underuse it in routine, useless and unproductive activities for their objectives, instead of valuing it, protecting it and managing it efficiently. And what to do then?
I want to recommend here six valuable and productive uses for your free time that will allow you a better use and an approach to success and general well-being. It is about using free time, to take care of health, to strengthen important links, to reflect, plan and prepare.
Taking care of health is essential, since it is the basis of everything we do with the body and mind. Since prevention is an act of intelligence, take a couple of days to get medical exams to make sure of your good health.
You can go to the gym and improve your condition and your figure.
Strengthening ties is essential because we are social beings, inserted in systems of couples, family and friends, and it is precisely those relationships that we can improve and polish in part of our free time. These are not routine encounters and "cliché" conversations, but hours to heal pain, smooth things over, and unite from the heart. Take the opportunity to recontact people important to you, and create future projects.
Reflecting is an essential option in non-work time. We are saturated and trapped by daily routines, and we do not take the time to observe ourselves, recognize ourselves, analyze ourselves and ask ourselves questions to know if we are doing well, if the path we are traveling is adequate, and if we will reach a happy destination. The great paradox is: Stop so you can move forward.
Planning is common in smart and achievers. It means drawing the path that we will then travel. Pay attention to the various areas of your life and detect what should remain as it is, what requires partial modifications, and what should be discarded. Planning saves energy and time and avoids many frustrations from improvisation. Plan.
Let's finally see the key strategy: prepare. This is a very competitive and changing world that demands permanent updating. Therefore, a valuable use of free time is preparation. It can be through home readings, courses and workshops via the Internet, or take formal postgraduate studies with low requirements in person or online.
Gary Becker, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, has shown numerically what many knew, and that is that people with better preparation receive higher income and recognition than those with less preparation. Take some of your free time to expand your intellectual skills.
It has been said that "time is money." So turn your free time into an asset that works in your favor, and in addition to the necessary rest and fun, plant it to ensure true prosperity. Others could; you can.
Also, it is a way of loving yourself more. Thanks for reading me.
