#85: The Hidden Power of Hobbies

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Planning, Timemanagement, Education, Organization, Michaelhyatt, Productivity, Business, Achievement, Focus, Worklifebalance, Goals

4.5 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

You feel stagnant, like life is an endless cycle of going to work and coming home. There’s nothing on your calendar you’re really looking forward to. Can you be burned out and bored at the same time? How can you escape this sense of being in suspended animation? In this episode, Courtney, Verbs, and Blake offer a counterintuitive solution to the stasis of burnout: adding something to your calendar. They’ll show you the four surprising gifts that come from investing in a hobby—and how that can help you find renewed creativity and energy for both work and life. In this episode, you’ll discover— The power of active rest The benefits of letting your mind wander How being new at something leads to the greatest gains Examples of activities that give you energy Resources: BreakHiit Win at Work and Succeed at Life by Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt Miller The 4 GIFs of Having a Hobby: Innovation - https://giphy.com/embed/pOAJ9UVzFLHTnhhjOJ A Beginner’s Mindset - https://tenor.com/view/learning-cant-wait-to-learn-gif-9334907 Rejuvenation - https://tenor.com/view/bear-charging-gif-10139371 Enjoyment - http://gph.is/1dsY23l See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:38.3	Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the internet, so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start Loving Mondays. I'm Verbs here with Courtney Baker and Blake Stratton.
1:55.1	Whoa. What's up? Like, I can't hear you, my friend. I can see your mouth moving, but I can't hear you.
2:02.7	So I'm not sure if that's the podcast God saying this one's all verbs in me or what, you know?
2:09.7	It might be.
2:10.6	It might be.
2:11.2	I didn't, you know, I haven't been abiding by the podcast code of not eating pretzels right before we hit record.
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