How to make time for dating/relationships?
I'm taking a 4 day weekend to analyze my life and organize and improve it. And one of the biggest issues I currently have is finding time to do everything, and then even try to fit in dating into it all.
Since I was 10, I have been kept busy all of the time. Hockey practice, exercising, baseball, boy scouts, track/running, swimming, schoolwork (and more schoolwork), job, computers, Internet, and a lot more. I usually go to bed a 2 am and wake up at 8 am. This is an improvement since college, where I was lucky to get 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night, and then would sleep for 12-15 on the weekends.
I'm just wondering if my priorities are screwed up, and what other people's schedules were like? I have come to a time in my life that isn't as busy and complex. I would rank them right now as:
1. Work (~60 hours, includes drive and time spent getting ready)
2. Sleep (~50 hours, should be 60)
3. Exercising (~4 hours, could be 8)
4. Eating (~14 hours)
5. Internet/computers (~30 hours) / TV (~10 hours, might be less in the summer)
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6. Relationships/Friends (0)
I have tried turning off the Internet and TV, and what happens is I sleep 8-9 hours a night and exercise more. I clean my apartment and do my laundry more as well. I might read a book or go shopping.
It is almost as if I am avoiding the whole relationship thing, but I wouldn't have been very exciting saying I can't go out tonight, I have work to do, TV to watch, or I need to go to sleep at a normal time. In college it was always, "I have a program to write", or "I have to do this calculus assignment", and I could make friends with the other guys that were in the class doing the same work. Now, I am using the Internet and computers as a way to escape and have fun, while learning about myself and other topics.
What should I do in order to find the time to do everything, but still have time leftover just to do nothing and be available to hang out and do different things?
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