Alright, lets fucking do this. Growing up is hard. Like really hard. This summer I had to experience what we all inevitably have had to do and got a job. The past couple months I've been trying to figure out how to manage my responsibilities along side my passion. For the most part, the process has been incredibly frustrating. However, with a change of mind set, I was able to manage my time more efficiently. I hope this post can help you reach the conclusion you want from your life story, even if its only in some minuscule fashion.
There is something about sitting back and entering a world that isn't exposed to the same rules as your own. I personally love games, board games, video games, all of the above. However, I recently was on the receiving end of a major set back to my gaming performance: work. I recently graduated from college and had to do what every 18-25 year old hates to do , find a job. It took me two month to land one in an area where plenty of jobs are available, and not two weeks later, I was working 9 to 5. Working is fun and exciting for about the first week, after that first week, you start calculating how much time everything takes out of your day, week, year. Its time to start making some cuts. The first thing to go during the week is the thing that should always go last, you time. You time is the most important to your mental health an welfare. Society encourages us to cut our personal time in favor of work, cleaning, philanthropy, family, which, yes, are all important, but it doesn’t negate the need to kick back, relax and do whatever the fuck you want. Take your new money, and buy that damn game you want. The only trouble is now you have to watch the clock.. I will go over some strategies later in the article.
My first journey into video games occurred in first grade, when my parents bought my brothers and I game boy advanced. We ate that shit up. We played everything on the Game-boy, and later the Nintendo DS lite. My brothers liked playing games, but I loved it. We eventually were able to convince my dad to get us a PS2. I think I spent well over 2,000 hours sitting in front of my TV “hogging” the sticks. It would only get worse when we decided to switch over the Xbox360. When I was in high school I saved up to buy myself a PlayStation four. I now have over 130 games. You could say I am kind of an addict. Oh well. I enjoy it. In college I had the opportunity, and freedom, to play as much as I wanted, while also maintaining a good GPA and solid friends. That would all change as soon as I walked across the stage for graduation.
The point of this article is to give you some time management tips in order to allow you to maximize your free time.
The first step in finding the time to do the things that you want to do is to prioritize “me time”. Spending time cleaning the house and working is important, but you need to ask yourself, what is the most selfish thing that you WANT to do. For me, that was sitting behind my desk and attempting to survive more than 5minutes without dying in a play-through of the Witcher 3 on death-march difficulty. It is incredibly import to prioritize some “me-time” as literally every psychologist recommends we do so, see the damn Seven healthy habits for pete’s sake. Now that you have figured out what the fuck you want to do, and lets be real, you’re here, you want to game; why the hell are you gaming?
Why do you game? – Seriously, its super expensive.
I love gaming, there is nothing I am more likely to spend money on than video games, or tech to help me play more games. My game library is laughably large and full of games I haven’t spent more than 20 minutes playing, and even larger when you take in account the hundred or so games I have access to through my cousin – Game sharing is sweet bro. Why the hell do I spend the money I do on gaming? Because video games allow me to talk shit to my friends across the country. In whatever game I play, I strive to be great, and often fall short and into mediocrity. I will buy whatever piece of tech, or watch any video that could help me out perform my friends.
What you have perceived as a tangent, is actually the entire point of this article. Why do you do play games? I know why I do, its time to ask yourself the same question.
Now that you know what you want to do in your free time, and why you want to do it, how are you going to make it work with your busy life? I work from nine to five every day, go home and workout at the gym, make dinner, talk to my girlfriend about her day, which occasionally will take longer than anticipated, and still have time to play video games at night, I haven’t even mentioned the fact that I read every night before bed. You have time, just not as much time as you hoped for. My suggestion to you, the listener is to schedule your free time as you would your time at work. It doesn’t have to be a hard and fast schedule, as I really suck at sticking to hard and fast schedule. My schedule is flexible in the sense that by around 10pm I need to start winding down and get ready for bed. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither will your skills or progress in games. If your motivation for gaming is connecting with your friends, then its important to shoot them a text, make a plan to play on a Friday or Saturday. Find a free day where you and your friends can play together consistently. Plan your time out, it will save your happiness.
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