Work, shopping, dog, kids, TV and chores. Just duties all day long and no time for fun stuff?<\/p>\n
Almost all of us complain sometimes about the lack of time. The time is short mostly for\u00a0important things like exercise, family time or sorting through that full drawer you can’t even\u00a0open anymore. Maybe there is no time to invite your family over for dinner, or read the\u00a0whole\u00a0book in one session.\u00a0One very wise time management advice would be to go through our typical day and write\u00a0down how much time we spent on each activity. We get often surprised how little of our time\u00a0is spent truly productively. Internet, TV or standing in a\u00a0supermarket queue during the rush\u00a0hour are the most common time wasters. We know that watching TV (of course in case you\u00a0are not watching a\u00a0mind enhancing documentary) is not very beneficial for our brain and its\u00a0vitality.<\/p>\n
The truth is that it often isn’t about whether we do or don’t have the time, but rather where do\u00a0we decide to invest it. If we decide to invest it in a\u00a0beneficial activity, it pays off and in a\u00a0long run we will get more time \u2013 time spent in a\u00a0meaningful way.\u00a0So often we hear people say that they don’t have time to exercise nor play or have fun.\u00a0Supposedly, only kids have time to play. Well, we think that couldn’t be further from the truth!\u00a0Play is so beneficial for adults, it kick starts our creativity and keeps our brain sharp.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0enough to turn the TV off in the evening and pour ourselves a\u00a0glass of wine. Whether you\u00a0play Monopoly, Pucle or have fun with some coloring pages while sipping your Merlot, we\u00a0guarantee that your neurons will thank you.<\/p>\n
Assembling, games and riddles are making us internally younger. Thanks to the fact that we\u00a0use both hemispheres while assembling, the dopamine is created and that is like a\u00a0youth\u00a0potion for the brain and has many benefits for our overall existence. Thanks to dopamine, our\u00a0memory is better \u2013 so we save time because we don’t need to come back for our keys and\u00a0we save more than one visit back to the supermarket, coz we forgot to buy lemons.\u00a0Dopamine also helps to intensify our joy and the feeling of satisfaction. So the time spent in\u00a0a\u00a0meaningful way we will experience more intensively and therefore enjoy it more.\u00a0Assembling and riddles also serve as\u00a0a\u00a0great prevention against Alzheimer’s disease,\u00a0dementia and other brain diseases that affect elderly. So it’s obvious that thanks to the time\u00a0invested in games, we get more time in life with a\u00a0vital brain. If we actually suffer by the lack of dopamine it can end up in depression, insomnia and grumpy moods. In case our\u00a0dopamine levels are just right we get more time being relaxed \u2013 and I\u00a0bet everybody agrees\u00a0that in relaxed state we are more productive than in a grumpy one. Read more details about\u00a0how dopamine affects our brain in this article Why to assemble or how to get smart in playful
\nway.<\/p>\n
What if your problem is not time, but money? With all the bills and loans there is nothing left
\nfor fun?<\/p>\n
Here applies the same advice as with the time management. If we wrote down every\u00a0expense we would find out that a\u00a0lot of money is being wasted. With better expense planning\u00a0we could save up for the meaningful things that actually spark joy. It’s not about how much\u00a0money we have, but rather where we decide to invest it.<\/p>\n
Family activities, healthier food and investment into bettering ourselves always pay off in\u00a0a\u00a0long run. Of course, sometimes it\u00b4s hard to distinguish what is a\u00a0meaningful spending and what isn\u2019t. In the beginning, most of the purchases make us happy right? Maybe the key to this dilemma\u00a0is a\u00a0question \u2013 will this make me happy in a\u00a0month or in a\u00a0year? Do I\u00a0have more than one\u00a0reason to invest in this?<\/p>\n
Let us present Pucle as one meaningful example \ud83d\ude42\u00a0Pucle is multifunctional thing. You are not buying just a\u00a0game. You are buying relax and\u00a0active meditation. You are buying chilled evenings with a\u00a0glass of wine. You are buying brain\u00a0beneficial dopamine that will make you internally younger. You are buying new knowledge\u00a0about art and design. You are buying a\u00a0little something that will make your house cozier. You
\nare buying and option to have fun anytime again, since nothing is glued. So much goodness\u00a0in one tube!<\/p>\n
Of course, not always we can have the control over our time and finances and often we need\u00a0to adjust according to circumstances. But with a\u00a0little bit of effort we can always take at least a\u00a0bit of control back and put our energy into things that matter and that make us better and healthier people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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