Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I was interviewed recently by a very well-known business publication and they wanted my perspective

as a life coach on the importance of hobbies. And look, it's proven that hobbies enrich our lives, they

can make us happy, especially if it's a hobby where you can record and measure your progress,

maybe something like a sport, maybe something artistic,

maybe it's even learning a language or cooking, it's proven that the more we make progress in our lives the happier we are and it is fun to have this rich diverse life experience right because like you know we work we often have our like entertainment in our lives, right?

Maybe it's TV, going out, socializing, etc.

Maybe we work out.

And then there's a portion of our lives

that many of us have dedicated to hobbies. And so I shared my opinion on the importance of them, but then I said this, if there is pressure or expectation or a should involved anywhere when it comes to having a hobby, we are defeating the purpose of our lives.

And then I have to say, I mean I almost have some mixed emotions around this, but I don't really have hobbies. My best friend Adam plays tennis like really, really consistently. My sister in Switzerland

loves cross-country skiing. My other sister is always constantly learning new languages. She does

yoga teacher trainings just for fun. She doesn't want to be a yoga teacher.

And I think to myself, you know what? I love, love my work. The fact that I get to sit down with a microphone and speak to you today, I mean,

I don't need any pleasure in my life. I don't need anything else. Like, this is so fun. This is such a gift what a privilege for me to be able to do this

I love love love my work I love love love to read actually that might be the only hobby that I have but even my

reading somehow always parlays into my work I'm often reading the books of authors

who I have here on the podcast or I'm reading self-help because hey I'm a life coach right that's my business to be doing that or I'm reading fiction that I love, which is of course a lovely break and yet still I find

resonance with characters and find stories and connect to emotions and somehow tend to just relate it back to my work.

So I have my work, I have my reading,

of course I have my friends.

But in terms of having traditional hobbies like going to a bridge or learning chest, whatever it is, go for it, good for you, enjoy them.

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