In other words, the stuff I do in my free time....
Exercise - I walk every day, a half hour minimum on weekdays and two hours a day on my days off.
Learning Japanese - I do Duolingo every day, about 15 minutes worth. I do language lessons while I’m driving home, about a half hour, or walking, about 30 minutes. I also try to brush up on learning my hiragana and katakana. So far I’ve pretty much learned all my hiragana and just started my katakana.
Audiobooks - along with learning Japanese, I also do 30 minutes of audiobooks every day. This helped me to consume over 50 books this past year.
Reading - I also read every day when I have an e-book to read.
Cooking and grocery shopping - I can easily spend 15 minutes prepping my breakfasts (usually pretty easy stuff), and up to two hours nightly making dinner and cleaning up. This is my time to exercise creativity, precision, and efficiency. I love cooking! I also do Saturday morning grocery shopping and get the added benefit of spending quality time with my daughter.
Playing guitar - I love playing guitar and try to do it daily. Much of the time it’s just free form playing, but depending on my commitments, it changes - when I’m prepping for a big gig it involves lots of rehearsal, or when I’m writing songs I’m recording ideas, or sometimes just learning cover songs for fun. Although I’ve been playing for decades and am comfortable with my playing level, I know there’s always room for learning.
Working on guitars - I love working on my guitars whether it’s building them or rewiring the electronics. I don’t do this every day but think about it daily.
Playing Candy Crush - one of my guilty pleasures but I feel that it stimulates my brain for pattern recognition and problem solving. At least it’s not totally mindless zombie killing.
Cyber shopping - okay, this is probably the least productive of my endeavors and I should therefore reduce the time spent on it, but browsing guitars and shoes can be instant gratification.
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