Taking back your time
When I was working as a medical doctor, in my short spare time, I practice a hobby a time. Mostly on weekends, I got to draw and colour and I loved it.
I am sure that practicing writing and reading like drawing and colouring help my mental health and they keep away from me as long as it could the effects of job burnout.
I was reading on the commute to work. That was an hour in a half a day in total commuting. It was a spare time but I could not practice other hobbies on that time but reading. I was into a lot of self developing and spiritual books.
It did not matter what I read because I was taking that time back to my personal use instead of losing it.
Then Substack developed the app for Android and I got to write a bit on my commute, too.
I am sure that in your busy life you can take back some of the time that it is yours but you lose it. It can be while you wait for someone, or in your lunch break and so on.
Reading was the first hobby that I wrote about in my 77 list of hobbies because it is so easy to carry a book with you and to be transported in a make belief world or to learn something new and to become more cultured.
Taking pictures of interesting things you see on the way to work and back, it is another way of taking back your time. If you have a blog or for Instagram, you need to take some pictures, so it is a hobby in a hobby. And there are interesting views, people, and things around you all the time. You just need to pay attention.
Taking back your time brings you a great satisfaction. Because we usually know when we are losing precious time and we just get angry for that.
See you in my next post!