Day 22: No Such Thing as Wasted Time

Today I decided to do something I don't usually let myself do. I went out, purchased a Magazine, sat down, and read it.

This is almost silly, it's such a small thing, but it goes against most of the limitations I put on myself! Wasting money (a magazine isn't super useful) and wasting time (reading a magazine is also not super useful). Wasting time and money is pretty huge in my books, but lately I have been challenging the definition of a "waste". I never really gave it much thought before, my current definition of a waste is anything that is not ultimately productive in some way; Window shopping, Going out for Coffee, Reading Magazines. Basically things that are just for fun.

Anyway, my Husband finally pointed out to me (as I was clearly not going to get this on my own) that sometimes having fun IS productive! And that if you take a break from work to have fun, you're bound to get more work done later when you pick it up again.

So I read a magazine today, and I really liked it. I think I may even subscribe.

Day 18: Hit the Books!

Reading used to be one of my favourite things. I would literally have around four books going at all times when I was growing up, right until University. At that point life was just too busy to do something I enjoyed like reading a novel. After all, the reading I was assigned was often more than I could keep up with!

After I was done with University I thought I would have so much more time on my hands, even with starting a business. After all, how could anything take up as much time as all of those courses?! But even still I can't seem to find time to read. Last Christmas there were several books that I wanted to read, and between gifts and breaking down and buying them I had a small stack of great reading ahead of me.

I still have that same stack of books waiting to be read. Not cool. When I think about it, that stack of books wouldn't have taken me a month to read in High School.  I would have thought nothing of it! But somehow reading a "whole book" seems like such a daunting task to me now. I think it's about time that I got over the assumption that a whole book is just too much to get through, and just start reading for the fun of it again. Even if I don't end up with a finished product, or something usable, reading is still productive because it just makes me happy! And sometimes it's okay to have a little time to just selfishly, frivolously enjoy what you are doing. So I've decided I'm going to start reading again. Not because it will help my business in any way, or help us out in the long run at all, just because I want to know how Christmas at Tiffany's ends.