Is your life boring? Try this...
Bottom Line: Different strokes for different folks. Boring for me might not be boring for you. For example, I can’t imagine binge watching anything. Even a show or movie series I really like. For me a good day is one that takes me outside to enjoy nature and get a little exercise. For you it might be the complete reverse. Regardless – most of us are spending a lot of our lives being bored. For this story – the definition is going through a day without doing anything we have fun doing. And according to a recent study by Bowerlo (they’re a Bowling company trying to figure out how to get more people to bowl, which is why they were researching this in the first place), we average 131 days a year without any fun.
That’s more than a third of our life spent without anything enjoyable taking place during a given day. The secret to introducing more time for more fun, might be outside of work, controlling what we can control. The top cause for not having more fun was work but otherwise...
- Attending functions or parties we feel obligated to attend
Turns out that 25% of the time we have free time we’re doing stuff by choice that we don’t want to be doing. Parities, get togethers, functions, etc. This reminds me of an exercise I first introduced a few years back based on a stress study. If the thought of doing something stresses you out and you don’t have to do it. Don’t do it. See if your life isn’t less stressful. This is a different version of a similar thing. If you don’t want to go to a party, function or whatever. Don’t. Instead do what you’d prefer to do with that time. See if you aren’t less bored and perhaps happier.
We have a habit of creating a sense of obligation where it doesn’t have to exist and that has a way of making our lives more stressful and less happy. Control what you can control, and you’ll probably be better off all of the way around.