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Daily Archives: May 16, 2016

Hobbies Keep You Happy

So go ahead and indulge yourself! You deserve to be happy! Productivity and success can so easily become addictive.  With every little taste, we crave more.  Eventually we get so consumed by our desire to get one more thing done or to accomplish that next thing that our professional lives slowly overtake our personal.  What happens to our hobbies, those little things that we enjoy, that provide us happiness? They get left behind. Every time that this has happened in my life, something happened.  I didn’t know it at the time, but looking back at my collective experiences, I’ve noticed one immediate change.  The minute that my passions, my hobbies were set aside for the pursuit of something else, my mood shifted.  In that moment, stress began to build, and with no hobbies, there was no release.  When you don’t leave time for what…