Any Tips for Staying Busy?
I use long vacations around Xmas, 12 days off, and Thanksgiving, 9 days off, to test FIRE. Hopefully have 2 to 5 years left. I kind of struggle even with lots of hobbies to stay engaged, productive and fulfilled.
During these test days, I have also taken 2 hours a day of classes to maintain my professional licenses over half the days.i also traveled out of state for 2 days over each block of time off. My days also consisted of doing 45 minutes to an hour of exercise of some sorts everyday, playing guitar for 30 minutes most days, learning a foreign language for 15 minutes a day, cooking for 1 to 2 hours per day, various home projects averaged 1.5 hours a day, going on a 2 hour hike every other day, going out or hanging out with friends and neighbors, playing tennis or pickleball a few times, spending lots of time with wife and kids, doing some artwork, playing in a team sports league, watching/listening to a long podcast, a movie with the family every other day, board games with the fam every other day. I spent hours tax planning, researched and rebalanced my asset accounts, built dcf models for investment evaluation. All this and I still find myself with 3 hours a day of doom scrolling reddit or aimlessly watching YouTube. How do the rest of you avoid the reddit/ social scrolling? I'm kind of worried once FIRE'd it will get worse.