Learning to Recreate

Impacting More Than Just Yourself

Part 2 – Learning to Recreate

I’d like to ask the question, what do you do for enjoyment when you’re not working?  Is you life’s enjoyable moments limited to sleeping, eating and watching television?  You do know that’s what normal people do and because of this normal people don’t have many enjoyable moments.  They come few and far between.  Life was never meant to be that way.  In fact, it was meant to be just the opposite, more enjoyable moments and less work.

Normal is more work and less living.
Uncommon is less work, but more living.

You when you are not working
The ultimate goal of my writing is to show you what “normal” takes from you and what becoming uncommon gives you.  This section of “Impacting More Than Just Yourself” talks about you when you’re not working.  The simple definition of the word recreation is what you do for enjoyment when you’re not working.

Most of us have what we call an “8 to 5”, a job.  There is certainly nothing wrong with that.  It’s good to have a job, but it’s not good when the job has you.  [Say to the left!]  I’ve always had issues with people who move all over the world chasing a job or a career when it was never their desire in the first place to move or relocate to places they never intended on living.  I especially have an issue with Believers who can’t trust God enough to provide when He’s not telling them to move. Let me get back on track.  Don’t let the job have you, you have the job.

Here’s an interesting thought, you should be reminded that your 8 hours of work is 1/3 of your day.  That means 2/3 of the day actually belong to you, not the job.  It’s your recreation time.  Far too many of us, mismanage what God is trying to give us.  We allow the job, career, the work to take more than it’s share.  By the way, it’s common.  It’s common to mismanage time, money, relationships and everything else.  And if common is the norm, and it is, we must break free from the norm.  You can be successful and at the same time get your recreation back.   

Working your fingers to the bone is useless
“It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest [recreation] to his loved ones.”

If working so hard from early morning to late at night just to pay your bills and survive is useless, then what is useful?  Not working so hard from early morning to late at night to make a few dollars.  Looks to me that being uncommon is finding a way to work easier and get back either the night or the day for recreation.  Working both is out of the question.  

We’ve been mislead or misinformed that working hard day and night is a good thing.  This will help us achieve greatness, right?  Wrong, you will never achieve greatness by doing what’s useless.  Every useful person knows how to work and they know when to rest.  The phrase that comes to mind is “work hard, play hard”.  It’s not, “work hard, work hard” nor is it “play hard, play hard”.  

Work like everyone or work like no one
This is how you know you’re uncommon.  You have rest.  You recreate.  You’re down when everyone else is up night and day working.  You’re not overdoing it.  Doesn’t this sound strange.  If you’re having a hard time buying in, it means only one thing…normal, average, common, and/or ordinary has you in their trap.  God, who is none of these things, provides you what normal, average, ordinary and common people don’t have rest-recreation.  It’s time for you to change your course and become uncommon.  Work like no one else so that you can recreate like no one else.