Do you feel like you HAVE to do something constructive every day?

Another list maker.

I feel good when I tick several items off my list and have some small victory outside of my comfort zone but I don’t feel any pressure to accomplish something every day.

I also feel better when I get cleaned up and out the door for a brisk two mile walk on most days.

I think that most of us feel a bit better when we push ourselves to accomplish some small goal or chore.
 
Not sure what the definition of "constructive" is. I exercise almost everyday. I buy food and cook for myself. I clean up my house. I shower everyday. I even cut my own hair.
I also travel every now and then. I manage my own financial affairs. Although some days when I don't have energy and I just lay in bed or sit around, but overall I think I am constructive, as opposed to "destructive".
 
I usually get in my office and start sketching stuff when the weather is not so good.
Sketch a new deck, table, chairs, Umbrella. Make a sketch of a lean-to on the garage.
Once I get the sketch firm with sort of how I want it, I then draw it to scale.

Design an addition on a house, add Bathroom, sketch the wiring and water pipes.
Build them.
Decide how I want the cement drive to be with a drawing. Pour Cement.

Design a new Boat Dock, then build it and tow it into place.

Sketch a character, most whatever pops in my mind at the time. Feels fun to do.

Basically, use my hands an imagination a lot & doing stuff. I'm usually to busy
During the good warm days of the season to do much imagination stuff.
Not bored much from April on.
 
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papa tiger said:
I usually get in my office and start sketching stuff when the weather is not so good.
Sketch a new deck, table, chairs, Umbrella. Make a sketch of a lean-to on the garage.
Once I get the sketch firm with sort of how I want it, I then draw it to scale.

Design an addition on a house, add Bathroom, sketch the wiring and water pipes.
Build them.
Decide how I want the cement drive to be with a drawing. Pour Cement.

Design a new Boat Dock, then build it and tow it into place.

Sketch a character, most whatever pops in my mind at the time. Feels fun to do.

Basically, use my hands an imagination a lot & doing stuff. I'm usually to busy
During the good warm days of the season to do much imagination stuff.
Not bored much from April on.
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I redesign cars on PhotoShop. Simple profiles.
 
I’m very strict with myself and I wish I wasn’t. Like Pepper, I feel guilty doing nothing.
As soon as I rise from my bed, I have to straighten up the whole house befire I “allow” myself a cup of tea.
I must exercise for an hour each morning before I eat my breakfast.
I have plans for each and every day.
I wish I didn’t. I know it would do me good psychologically to let up on myself.
 
I went into the AF at a young age, and right away you receive a hefty dose of self-discipline, and I guess it just stayed with me. I do take some time now and then to just have fun, but when things need to be done, my early training kicks in, and I show up for duty.

To be clear, it isn't the fear of guilt that compels me, it is because I absolutely hate the feeling of falling behind because now instead of two things that need to be done, I now have four. No one likes a sink full of dishes, a pile of laundry, or a huge stack of important papers to file. With a little discipline every day or two, that won't happen.
 
I have been thinking to ask the same question Nathan. Well sort of. Mine would have been specifically about getting chores done daily. To answer your question, it would be nice to do something constructive every day. I feel guilty if I don't, but a lot of things I put off (especially ones I dislike) and do them when I get A.....

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Kinda runs in seasonal cycles. During the winter, my focus is on practicing my instruments -- euphonium and bass trombone. But that ain't a regular thing until I get close to gig time.

But when the corner turns on spring -- like now -- yard work ain't gonna get done unless I do it. The difference is, I do a little bit each day after walking Pepper. I no longer feel compelled to finish it all in the same go-round, to wit -- weed whacking, mowing, edging, and my personal hatred of all yard work (of which I hate it all) -- hedge trimming and the inevitable cleanup.

Nope. All that stuff can be done in small, bite-sized chunks. But, it does have to be done.

Side note: Am currently debating whether or not my burn barrel (loaded full of limbs excreted by wind-blown trees over the winter and spring thus far) along with the hedge clippings (a ton of that stuff) can be gotten rid of with a few well-placed matches and charcoal lighter.
 
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