LEARN HOW TO ENJOY LESIURE

Most Type A’s don’t handle leisure well. The reasons may vary, but probably the most fundamental reason is that they were raised with a work ethic which said that if you are not doing some productive or “worthwhile,” you’re wasting your life.
That’s a hard mind set to change, but it’s doable. It’s probably not a good idea to wait until you retire to learn how to enjoy leisure, because that abrupt change may be too much for your psyche to handle.
My suggestion is that you pick some activities you REALLY enjoy doing (I’m going to write more later about how you can identify those things) and carve out some time to do them. And I mean, make the time inviolate. Don’t let anyone mess with it – that’s YOUR time, to do what you enjoy doing. It doesn’t make any difference whether it is fishing, golf, working in your shop, rebuilding engines, writing, volunteer work, taking college courses, or what – and start doing it now. You can work into this gradually. Start with a couple of hours per week, and then increase it to a half day, or a whole day, or whatever you can squeeze into your schedule. After a while, you will learn that your world is not going to crash if you spend some time doing what YOU want to do, even if it is not “worthwhile.”
OK, so some of you are saying, “Well, my work is what I really like to do.” I can buy that, but I urge you to think ahead to some years from now when you are unable – for whatever reason – to do your real job any more, or perhaps not as much. Start figuring out NOW how you want to fill those hours.