Switching Up Your Hobbies

When it comes to choosing my hobbies and moving forward with them, I can sometimes invest time in the wrong things and spend too much time reading up information or theories online, all for the experience of mere speculation.

But that’s something that I think makes me tick: speculation. Without it, I feel like the imaginative part of my mind wouldn’t be engaged nearly enough, and so I’d be a lot more dull, uninterested, and moody. Thankfully, that’s not something I ever have to give up, because you can speculate on just about anything you want out there so long as there’s a community willing to provide the content and conversation needed.

A few of the hobbies I invest too much time in boil down to football. Watching Dallas as a fan and playing fantasy football with some of my family and friends takes up a large portion of time in my week, usually spanning across 4 or 5 days. You see, there’s a day for watching football all day (Sundays), and there are still two other days to watch primetime games and multiple other days in the week for preparing my team for the next matchup.

It can be exhausting simply because there’s such an emotional attachment to it all, and what’s it all for? We play in a money league, but really, it’s all for entertainment and “something to do.”

The problem is, I feel like I could be spending my time wisely doing other things that are more mentally challenging or useful for my home, my dog, my body, or my mind. It’s just a matter of cutting the excess free time spent daydreaming about football. Shouldn’t be that hard, should it?

If I could spend my time doing anything else, I know the first thing I’d do is go to my basement, get out the cheap moving boxes filled with books, and sort through them all to make a “lineup” of books I’ll be reading in the next 3 months. By having them picked out and set for certain weeks to be read, I’d stick to a reading schedule much better. (I think the only thing holding me back from doing this is first, finding the cheap moving boxes they’re stuffed in, and also cutting down on my time spent doing things for football.) It’s all a matter of willpower and what you want to do with your free time. You’ve just gotta own up to what you enjoy and make the moves necessary to do it.