1314: Rediscover the things you used to love (Reprise!)

When I was younger, I was obsessed with reading, but as I got older, life got in the way. Today's pep talk is the reminder you need to go do the things you used to love, and to carve out time to play!

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043: Rediscover the things you used to love

transcript dailypep Meg Kissack

Good morning. It is Friday. It's nearly the weekend, and we made it. So today, I wanna start this episode with a story. When I started school, I was obsessed with reading. I remember doing my reading homework with my mom every night, going way past the page I needed to read because I just needed to know what happened next. From memory, I vaguely remember a series about Meg the Hen, but I definitely know I was an overachiever. And then I remember every Saturday as a teenager taking a massive pile of books back to the library in town where the librarians knew me by name.

I was a proud nerd. But as I got older, I stopped reading so much. There were always more pressing things to do, and more importantly, I simply forgot how much I loved it. Because when we get older, our brains get bogged down with all the adult things we need to do. Time operates in a completely different way, and there's no one telling us to do the fun things or to make time for the things that we love. There's no one there making sure that they don't fall off the radar, and there's no one there to help you rediscover the things you once loved. There is no reading homework, and it is just so easy to simply stop doing the things that we were once obsessed with. So for today's episode, I want to be that person.

Take this as your friendly nudge, your reminder, and your homework to do the things that you love. This weekend, take some time to do the things that you don't make enough time for. Take some time to remember what you used to do and things that you forgot that you love doing that just don't happen anymore. Go read a book. Go get your paints out. Spend some time doodling or making books or whatever it is that you couldn't get enough of as a child. As adults, we simply don't play enough. We forget that play is so important until somebody reminds us.

So this is your reminder, and this is your permission slip. Go have fun. Go rediscover things that you just simply can't make time for or haven't made time for. And do it without guilt. Yes. You might have lots of things to do, but when don't you? The fact of the matter is as we started this week talking about to do lists, and our to do lists are very rarely empty. So you have to carve the time. So carve that time this weekend, go have fun, and I cannot wait to see you on Monday.

Have a fabulous weekend. Make time for you, and know that that definitely isn't selfish. Take care.