Enjoy Yourself

I spend a lot of time on this website talking about saving money and focusing your energy on finding meaning in life by setting goals for yourself.  Always working towards a goal can become daunting and many times it is simply easier to give up on your goal than to push forward.

In order to prevent yourself from faultering and possibly failing at accomplishing your goal it is important to give yourself a break.  For example, I have been working to get my credit card paid off so I have been throwing every extra cent that I have towards accomplishing this goal.  After a while though, I don’t want to pay anymore money into the credit card companies.  Instead I want to take my hard earned money and go have a little fun.

That is exactly what I did last weekend.  Even though I’m still not 100% free of my credit card debt, and could have directed more money towards my debt, I decided that I needed to get out of the apartment and do something with my friends.  We decided to go to a place that had indoor rock climbing.

I had a lot of fun and it helped get me motivated to begin working on my goal of learning how to rock climb.  By my own judgement, I’m a natural.  I was able to climb all of the beginner routes with minimal effort.  That’s not to say that they were easy, because by the time we had spent a couple of hours climbing I was sweaty and my arms were tired, but I am ready to learn more about the technical aspects of climbing.

After we finished at the gym we decided to go downtown to watch some comedians.  I’d never been out to a place to see a live comedy show, so it was new territory for me.  I have to say that I’m glad I went.  I had a lot of fun, and laughed a lot.

Getting out with friends allowed me to focus my attention on living my life, enjoying my friends and having fun instead of feeling bogged down by constantly pushing towards completing my goal of eliminating credit card debt.  Even though I know how important it is for me to finish my goal, sometimes it is important to focus attention on something else for a while.

If you are constantly focusing your attention towards one thing and one thing only, you tend to miss out on a lot of other things in life which are enjoyable and meaningful.  It is important to enjoy life and have fun as long as the things you are doing don’t work to undue all of the progress you have worked hard to make.  I wouldn’t suggest going on a shopping spree as a celebration of paying off a credit card, but I would suggest buying yourself a new outfit to celebrate losing weight.

You work hard to accomplish your goals, and you work hard to earn your money.  You should remember to leave time in your life to find moments to enjoy yourself.