Slacking Off At Work Leads To A More Robust Life

Bren over at SlackerManager has some killer rules that every “slacker” should follow. Essentially the rules boil down to this: do your job, and use your free time to develop other areas of life.

But why should we follow said rules? Well, in a nutshell…

There’s more to life than work!

Sure, work puts food on your table, makes the world go round, yada yada yada. But developing a full life is the key here. Work provides you the basics for survival. But you can also use work to explore other things. Thinks like

  1. Know how to decide.
  2. Be curious.
  3. Pursue other pursuits.
  4. Develop your spiritual life.
  5. Develop (manage) relationships.

So often we forget that our job doesn’t define our life, or even who we are…