06/27/2022
THE GUILT OF FREE TIME!
🍃When you were a child, I’m sure there’s one thing you’ve heard multiple times.🍃
‘If you don’t work hard, you won’t survive this life.’
This belief is imbibed in many out there, that as adults you think of free time as a luxury. If you’re not in front of the laptop for a minimum of 8 hours, then you have life easy.😏🙄
Even in today’s fast moving virtual world, smart 🧠work isn’t given the same importance as hard work.
Books 📚like “The 4-hour Workweek” are much known and talked about, but you don’t see many actually implementing it; nonetheless, today I want to talk about how this belief structures itself into our subconscious.🤔
The constant thought that hard work alone will help you in life transforms itself inside the subconscious as: Hard Work = Success; which means Anything Else = Failure/Loser.⚡️⚡️
Even though no one consciously thinks this every second of their life, the subconscious adopts to a lifestyle where you actively seek hard work.
When a person seeks hard work, “Free time” comes at a price.💲
You are constantly doing hard work, while always complaining that you don’t have any free time to watch a series on Netflix.
But when you get time to watch a series, you guilt yourself into feeling like you wasted all those time, when you could’ve done something productive.
The irony is:👀
Free time spent cribbing about how free you actually are negates the fun or relaxation you could’ve had. Now, you’ve had zero fun & you did zero work.
This limiting belief makes one question how working less hours can lead to success. Don’t victimize yourself to stay busy.🚫
The first step to changing this limiting belief is to start enjoying your free time without any guilt. It is to understand that you deserve fun & relaxation as much as the work (hard or smart) you do.😇💛
With Lots of Love
Your Energy Coach
Sowmya