After some 35,000 hours of delivering psychotherapy services over the last 25 plus years, I've never heard anyone complain that they've got everything done and they don't know what to do now. Who among us ever gets caught up? I am reminded continuously of things that need to be done - disorganized closets, weeds to pull, countless projects around the home that need to be done, etc. etc. I could spend every waking hour, and all night too for that matter and never get everything done.
If we are waiting to get everything done before taking time to smell the roses, spend time with friends and family or simply decompress and get some 'down time' , then these things will never happen. There's a number of tragic stories out there of people who worked themselves to the bone, telling themselves that some day they'd get around to recreating and spending time with loved ones, but then dying before these things ever took place. There was an ad for flying lessons in a magazine with the caption "....because some day you will run out of some days....."
It is vitally important to take time out of every day for connection with others, decompression, recreating and being creative. We naturally do that which is a priority. If we don't do something on a given day, it simply means that we haven't made it enough of a priority. So, there's no time like the present to re-evaluate our priorities and take even a little bit of time each day for what is ultimately the most important!
