It’s easy when you’re busy,
self-employed, passionate about what you do, and eager to succeed, to tell
yourself that you don’t have time for recreation. And it’s easy to set artificial timelines for
when you are start going to live your life (I’ll take a vacation when my bills
are caught up; I’ll start spending time with friends as soon as everything on
my list is done; I’ll join a club next year, etc.).
The problem is that sometimes the benchmarks are really long-term, and that
even once you reach them, there are new obstacles standing between you and
taking time for yourself.
Postponing living life is a
bad habit just like eating junk food or not exercising are bad habits, and is
just as hard to break as any other habit.
But there are some good reasons to do it now:
- Continuing to work and plod along without a
break causes the onset of diminishing returns – it takes longer and longer
to do less and less
- Focus is diminished
- Energy is reduced
- There are no new ideas because you don’t give
yourself a chance to experience anything new or to rest your mind
- Life speeds by and you miss a lot of what it is
all about
