Improving yourself is a slow process, so every small amount that can help you should be taken. Our free time is being spent doing things we love, but why not use it for improvement at the same time?
An example is going to a beautiful place for a hike. While it relaxes you it will have advantages for your health. Another example is going out with friends drinking something healthy or listening to your friends on a subject that you don’t much about. While you enjoy spending time with them you are learning something new that you can use later on. You kill two birds with one stone. You are not only enjoying yourself, at the same time you are improving your life.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. – Ralph Marston
Anything you spend your time on now will influence your future. If you only watch TV every day you aren’t improving and you will stay walking in place, if not moving backwards. On the other hand if you continue to work hard you may get a promotion or be able to start your own business. Consider your studying years did you only party and end up giving up on your studies or did you split your time between work and play and achieved your degree?
How you fill you life now determines the outcome. If you work hard now you may be able to relax some more later. If you avoid working now you will have a hard time in a couple of years. By the words of Dave Ramsey “Live like no one else now, so later you can live and give like no one else.” Do the things that no one wants to do you can do the things that everyone wants to do. Still working two hours after your workday ended, learning something new after your workday? No one else except for your boss is still working like that. They are doing it for their business, you are doing it for your future. Don’t do it for their business, but for your personal growth. Seek for the things you can learn from it.
You pay a price to win. Winning in life requires sacrifices, that no one is willing to suffer.