The excuses are usually the same: I don't have time now, next week I'll organize my schedule and see if I can fit it in, next month I'll take some time off and figure it out, next year it will be easier when I finish this and that other project, when the kids grow up a little more, when the kids leave college, when I retire?later.

We spend all our battery with work, obligations, tasks, appointments - what we need to do, of course - but then we don't recharge our energy. That's the problem! And you, have you been recharging your energy? Yes, eating and sleeping are part of recharging, but lately even this field has not been healthily employed in our lives.

Life combines with pleasure

Where is the pleasure in your life? It is an essential element for the balance of our strength. And it can be experienced in the smallest things. To exemplify this we have the so-called hobbies, or bringing to Portuguese: leisure activities that enter your routine for the simple fact of being pleasant! The good old hobby that, as the name says, has the mission to let time pass, without rigorism, in the rhythmsmooth and pleasant leisure.

A delightful hobby can be singing, either by joining a singing class or a choir, or in everyday moments while tidying up the house, taking your bath, organizing your ideas. For some people the best will be a physical activity, one that is pleasurable and not a rigid commitment: rowing, cycling, dancing, walking among the trees, swimming, stretching. There are ways to accomplishIn this way, the same activities also help us connect with others, broaden our human relationships - recharging our energy even more! Doing physical activity in a group also motivates us much more to keep going.

Pastime in the right measure

Doing manual labor can be another alternative: sewing, embroidery, modeling, painting. Seeing our hands creating something new provides us with a re-encounter with our creative potential. Have you ever tried going to the kitchen not to make the usual rice and beans? Finding time to taste the alchemical flavors of culinary transformation, venturing into spices, delicacies, new textures, this without timemarked, without obligation, just for the joy of creating.

Visiting bookstores and libraries, getting to know other perspectives on the same questions of life in written words. As for reading, this can become a more differentiated pastime too: how about setting up a reading club with friends? It can be a meeting from time to time where everyone lends each other books or even everyone agrees to read the same book and meets to talk about theHave you ever thought about that?

Reflect on your tastes and find a hobby that is just like you, that fits your experience of pleasure and well-being. What works for some may not be pleasant at all for others, but don't make this another excuse to put it off. Reflect right now and make some moves to engage in some new activity or to rescue from the past that hobby that made youwell, or even the one you dreamed of doing but never could because of a thousand and one excuses.

Find time for yourself, filling yourself with new energy to be able to take care of those other important tasks later. For now, it's time to give yourself a treat by letting time go by, having pleasure and leisure as company!