Maintaining good relationships with friends, family, and lovers is just as necessary to maintain your sanity as relaxing at home alone and working on your dream.
It’s difficult to give each aspect of your life the attention it deserves without shoving another out of the way, and I’ve been struggling personally with cutting out time for work and working out over time with people/being lazy. I find it hard to prioritize my personal goals over the opportunities to engage with others, I’ve always been a very social extrovert.
Making plans with people is extremely important, carrying through with those plans is extremely important.
So how does one juggle the desire to maintain friendly relationships while working full-time and pursuing a creative-entrepreneurial endeavor? My personal goal has been to shift my work into times where I’m naturally not going to be seeing people, which surprise, surprise, is the early morning. My female friends are more likely to meet for lunch or for dinner and return to a friend’s house for a movie than they are to get together for breakfast. My husband and I cherish the times we get to spend at night with one another because it’s the quality time that we miss when we both work. We are very attached to one another, and even if we are just reading different things on our phones, it’s the fact we are together that matters. I try to visit my mom once a week, where we talk for hours over cups of coffee.
Shifting your schedule to the easiest option is what needs done, but the ability to get yourself to carry through with it is where we all struggle. Once I’ve figured out the answer for myself, I’ll let you all know. Until then, never stop trying to find the best way for yourself. I do not recommend shutting out opportunities to be with friends as you get older. Being in college, surrounded by other people your own age at all times, getting away from people to study is the main motive, but as an adult, when everyone is running to different jobs, maintaining good friendships and being there is the most important and one of the most difficult things to juggle.
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