3 Reasons Why Making Things After Work Beats Scrolling, Streaming, or Complaining
You’ve been in the working world for several years and time seems to be slipping away from you faster than ever.
Sure, you meet up with old friends to complain about your jobs, mindlessly scroll social media, and catch up on the latest streaming shows, but something is always missing. Maybe you’ve even tried video games, getting a pet, or starting a YouTube channel. No matter what you try, you can’t find a good way to let off steam after your 9 to 5 and recharge yourself.
Here are 3 reasons you should try to start Making things after your clock out of work that will help you rediscover your obsessions and charge back up before heading to the office again.
Reason 1: You Solve Your Own Problems Your Own Way
At your full-time job, you’re constantly solving other people’s problems within the constraints of your boss, their boss, coworkers, and countless other teams weighing in.
Wouldn’t it be nice to solve a problem that directly impacts you exactly the way you want to solve it? That’s where you can solve your own problems around your home yourself by Making the solutions. The progress builds over time, but getting started will help you regain some control over your environment and ease some of the tension away before you head back to work.
Once you solve a single, simple problem yourself, you’ll immediately start to notice other problems that you can likely solve yourself as well.
Reason 2: You Stop Accepting “Good Enough” Solutions
At work, deadlines are constantly looming and often you have to file or submit something you know could be better in order to meet (or barely miss) a deadline.
The amazing part of building your own projects is that you are in control of all your own deadlines (assuming your spouse is on-board as well). You can figure out what you need to do without constant time pressure, which lets you solve problems in a more relaxed manner. The duel-edged super power here is you’ll also stop accepting solutions from stores that don’t completely solve your problem or don’t solve it the way you want.
Once you can Make your own solutions to problems, you stop accepting half-baked answers and want them to completely solve the problem long-term instead.
Reason 3: Your Obsessions Are Unlocked
Yes, streaming can be a time-suck, but we all have universes we love (some far, far away) and Making things allows you to tap into that obsession like few others can.
When you’re Making things for yourself and understand how to solve problems, you’ll eventually realize that you can also theme those solutions. Instead of making a 2x4 coffee table, why not build one that houses the Lego Millennium Falcon in it so it can be displayed? Since you spent so much time playing Fallout, you could create a post-nuclear-destruction entertainment stand to house your consoles.
It’s next to impossible to find furniture that is both affordable and themed to something you love, so build it yourself.
