contributed by David
I was thinking about how many of us (including me) are unemployed or underemployed. In such a state, it's very easy to focus on the negative. I started making a list of benefits to keep positive, and I thought others might also benefit from them. They also might benefit from creating their own similar lists.
- more family time
- more thinking time
- time to ride a bike as far as you want or can
- more creativity
- less junk you don't need
- yard sales with interesting customers
- enough sleep to watch sunrises and sunsets in the same day
- can develop the ability to connect to people using skills other than how much money you earn
- counting your blessings and realizing you still have it pretty good
- friends and family can give back to you and this makes them feel good
- time to read
- time to learn new skills
- you can appreciate when someone else gets a new job or has some sort of success in any part of his or her life
- time to cook, a need to cook, and who knows what you can make with the things on hand
- gardening
- fixing what you have instead of throwing it away automatically
- libraries are free
- think of new ideas of ways to make money and stretch things
- expanding other identities than only what job you do
- losing things because you can't afford payments makes you realize what is truly important and most of the time it isn't things at all
- ability to see the humor when people start talking about how the economy is turning around or how many jobs have been created
- after many NOs or dead-ends, caring less and less and being more and more adaptable
- No longer a slave to the clock
- Time to do the things that you were always too busy to do before.
- becoming more resourceful
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