By: Ayush Gupta
What is a hobby?
A hobby is nothing but a pursuit outside one’s regular occupation engaged specifically for relaxation. Example: sports, music, etc. A hobby can make you feel relaxed and can also help you overcome pressure. Every individual should try to find out their interests, hobbies and focus on them to avoid tension. For me personally, pursuing my hobby makes me feel more satisfied and makes my day complete. My hobbies are to play basketball, workout, listen to music and play video games. After working out in the gym, listening to music, I feel more relaxed, energetic and fully focused. I use these hobbies to overcome tension and stay focused on my goals and achieve success.
A well-rounded person is one who uses his hobbies to his/her own advantage. A person will be satisfied and happy if he finds three hobbies for himself one that makes him money, one that keeps him in shape and one that keeps him creative. Once an individual find himself the above-mentioned hobbies, his life will change completely. He will never feel like taking a break from his routine life as he lives the life by doing what he loves the most. Hobbies can be one or many, but needs to focus on health, well-being, creativeness and hence overall happiness.
Using hobbies to overcome stress:
Every individual spends hours together focusing on their goals, trying to maneuver through different external pressures and distractions and other macro economic factors such as the recent COVID 19 pandemic. Some days in school are good and the other days you may have a lot of projects to complete, lot of materials to study etc. People who work also have a lot of stress related to their work, management pressure etc. Some people have troubles managing their personal and work life. Stress makes your social and work life miserable. These issues can be easily overcome by managing stress. Spending some specific time on your hobbies everyday helps you manage stress. Hence it is extremely instrumental for every individual to find their interests, hobbies and focus on them to avoid tension.
Every individual should try to manage their stresses to live a happy and healthy life. The management of stress is known as stress management. Stress management can help you manage stress effectively and efficiently. There are a lot of methods and techniques to manage stress but the best way to manage stress is by following your hobbies. Stress is a huge phenomenon in this generation because it affects you mentally. People spent huge amount of money for consulting, therapy to overcome stress. Instead of spending too much money and following different techniques just for the sake of overcome stress you can simply follow your hobbies and overcome them.
3 easy ways to find a hobby you love:
Think of the things you love the most and start cultivating them. For example: If you love the colors in the paintings, you might be interested in paintings or photography etc.
Transform what you already enjoy into a hobby. Even though you don’t have something you consider a hobby, there must be some activity that you enjoy the most. You can easily transform that activity into your hobby. For example: If you love eating, you could easily turn that into your hobby by taking cooking classes.
Retrieve your childhood interests. When you were a kid, you probably had hobbies you loved—so revisiting them as an adult can be a great way to get back into the groove.
Follow these easy ways to find a hobby you love the most. Choose the hobbies that best suit you and focus on them in your leisure time to improve them. By doing so you are avoiding stresses and pressures by pursuing what you love the most. Most importantly, do not choose your hobbies because your friends love it, or someone recommends you.
Spending time on your hobbies:
The time I spend on my hobbies is the time I spend for myself. I would recommend everyone to spend some time for themselves by pursuing their hobbies. A lot of people have a myth that if you spend time on your hobbies such as playing basketball, football or doing workouts will make you tired and less focused on your studies, work etc. The statement is false.
Spending time on your hobbies makes you feel fresh, focused and more concentrated than ever. It also helps you avoid distraction. A lot of people think pursuing hobbies is a waste of time. Some people also say they don’t find time during the day to pursue their hobbies. If you think of spending time for yourself as a priority you will obviously find time for your hobbies during the day. Hobbies are not a waste of time because it is what you love the most. Hobbies also makes you relaxed from pressures and makes you feel more energetic and makes your day complete.
Pursuing a hobby enriches our lives with happiness. Career coaches and business leaders say, having a hobby helps you to manage work stress and think creatively. There are many science-backed reasoning that pursuing a hobby will enhance your career. There are a lot of advantages in pursuing hobbies. Few of the important advantages are it helps you relieve stress and improve patience. It increases your self-confidence and reduces boredom. It helps you prevent bad habits and manage time effectively instead of wasting it. It challenges you. It improves your knowledge and enhances your life.
So yes, go ahead, find a hobby you love and start cultivating it!
- Ayush Gupta
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