After 120 hours of game play I beat FF13 100%, 35/35 Achievements Unlocked and 1000/1000 points added to my gamer score. Now I never have to play it again.
I work 60 hours a week; have been planning a wedding and a move; have one date night every week, one game night every week, cook all the meals and do my share of the household work - and I still sleep 8 hours every night (well attempt to), all that and in the last 2 months have had 120 hours to play FF13. What's my secret? Absolutely no unaccounted for time.
A while back I mapped out an entire month of my life in 15 minute intervals, and after that I realized how and why I waste time. Now anytime I waste time, I waste it with purpose. Also I don't have T.V. And that helps a lot.
Yeah, I realize it's a priority thing. Generally, I find playing video games by myself to be boring, and even the ones I like, I really can't play when the little guy is wandering around (he wants to help, which is nice, but tricky).
Also, allocating my time that closely causes me too much stress. I'm fundamentally not that organized. ;)
My apathy towards sports on television does free up some time. As for video games it's only a temporary thing. I'm a huge FF fan, so that was important. But before that came out I was playing Magic The Gathering on the tourney scene and last year I took that time and wrote a novel, so my attentions wax and wane.
I can't even remember the last time I played a game that would fall into the larger world of RPG's (including things like Magic). That's something I'd like to do, but there's no way to commit to anything with my current schedule - there's just entirely too many weeks out of the year where I have no evenings free. That's okay, since what's taking up my evenings is someone who makes me happy just to be with him, but I do dream from time to time.
Yeah right now some college friends and I get together Sunday night for an online tabletop RPG - but times do change, and with marriage and children it gets more complicated. Unfortunately people sometimes lose themselves after children are born, which is why so many divorces happen when the kids leave home.
We've made continuing some of our "couple" traditions a priority, although sometimes it's hard. The number of things going on that could occupy virtually all of my waking hours by themselves is staggering sometimes.
Though in my experience men seem to be much better at taking time for themselves then women (in my experience with people's messed up lives I mean), in that all men seem to have a thing: sports, tools, fishing, hunting, gaming, etc. Boys and their toys they say and it can certainly be problematic, but I think it's important to have you time, you as couple time, and you as family time - all too often one or even all of those things are missing from people's lives.
That is true. One of the consequences of life with small children is that they can take up 100% of your time. It's incredibly draining sometimes. Thankfully for us, we have friends and family who offer regularly to give us a night out. It's not weekly, or even monthly, but it's often enough that it makes a difference.
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A while back I mapped out an entire month of my life in 15 minute intervals, and after that I realized how and why I waste time. Now anytime I waste time, I waste it with purpose. Also I don't have T.V. And that helps a lot.
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Also, allocating my time that closely causes me too much stress. I'm fundamentally not that organized. ;)
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