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What Do You Do with Your Free Time?

What are your hobbies? Other than watching television, or going to the movies or golfing, what are some of the other things you do? Let’s start with what you read. You can learn a lot about a person from what she reads? Fiction vs nonfiction? Literary vs pulp fiction? Biographies? Self-help? Business? Marketing and sales? Maybe you have a conscious plan about what you read and when you read it? Many of us simply pick up books because they speak to us, catch our fancy somehow. Whether we realize it or not, we’re drawn to books that support our world view and values and provide some guidance, either directly or not, about pursuits we want to chase. Do you find yourself reading books by great orators who’ve reduced their speeches and presentation What Do You Daydream About?

When driving to and from work, depositions or hearings, when you have the radio on, but let your mind wander—what are you thinking about? What do you imagine yourself doing? Do you think about a book you want to write? A song you want to compose? The biography of someone you want to emulate? Despite being surrounded by media 24/7, whether in our cars, offices or at home, we still find time to zone out and day dream. We still play the role of hero, or leader or thought leader in our thoughts as we’re stuck in traffic. We play a role in our minds of someone we want to be or something we want to do. We rarely share our day dreams with others because first, we believe adults shouldn’t day dream, and second, they often involve us doing bigger than life things. But even if we would never do the things we day dream about, there is something to learn from them. What we imagine ourselves doing provides us insight into what we want to do with our lives. Maybe we can’t be a hero, but there may be avenues where we can positively affect others’ lives as if we were heroes. Analyze your day dreams and draw a line from them to concrete goals you can pursue in your life. Write It Down If you don’t have a journal, stop reading this book, login into your Amazon account, and order one. You want to