The Squash Guide to Your Hobbies

Steven Johnson, an expert on innovation and play, says: “Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities - a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity - but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.”

The world is wide open with possibilities of creating and reinventing yourself and hobbies will help you to do that. This worksheet and toolkit will help you achieve that.

• You need hobbies to enrich your life.

• Hobbies are a great way to relax after a hard day at work.

• Being passionate about your hobbies is good for your mental health.

• Hobbies lower your anxiety and your stress level and help you cope with depression.

• Hobbies help you build high-quality relationships with other people.

• Pursuing hobbies will provide you with a deep sense of satisfaction and well-being.

• You are not a machine — you do not need to be productive all the time. Your soul seeks adventures, surprises, desires, and curiosity.

• There are different kinds of hobbies, and you need to have diverse kinds of hobbies to have a full and varied life.

Four Types of Hobbies You Need

In this worksheet, I present you with an exercise on how you can cultivate different types of hobbies to enrich your life. You need four kinds of hobbies in your life:

• Hobbies for learning,

• Hobbies for creativity,

• Hobbies for fitness, and

• Hobbies for money.

Each of these has a different function. Each of these types is indispensable for a rich and varied life:

• Hobbies that will sharpen your mind (i.e., inspire your curiosity and learning)

• Hobbies that will unleash your creativity (i.e., help you create assets through your imagination)

• Hobbies that will keep you fit and healthy (i.e., increase your metabolism and achieve fitness)

• Hobbies that will make you money (i.e., help you create multiple income streams and side hustles)

This comprehensive worksheet will help you to enrich your personal universe of hobbies.