Posted by noa on October 9, 2003, at 4:03:05
In reply to Too Much Time!, posted by Tabitha on September 29, 2003, at 18:43:03
I think that this is one of those confounding things about life. We usually are desperate for more open time, but then when we have plenty of it it's hard to deal with it because it's too unstructured.
Have you ever read "Finding Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi? He writes about how people spend their time and in which types of activities do people feel 'happy' and which type produce a feeling of "flow" which is maybe not 'happiness' but a good feeling of when our skills are challenged at just the right level so we feel good about ourselves.
One idea I can think of is maybe doing some kind of very part time volunteer work--something that you'd enjoy that you'd not have the time to do if you were working.
Good luck.
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