Don't let negativity get you down

It’s so easy to plop down on the couch on a Friday night or Saturday morning  and watch TV, but falling into these routines will suck away the few free hours  you have. Instead of doing something by default, choose to decide how your time  is spent. 

Vanderkam writes, “In a world of constant connectivity, even loafing  time must be consciously chosen, because time will be filled with something  whether it’s consciously chosen or not — and not choosing means that the  something that fills our hours will be less fulfilling than the something our  remembering selves will likely wish we’d elected to do.”