Here Are Six Ways That Investing Your Energy In A Creative Hobby Can Benefit Your Regular Job Performance:

1. You Will Access Your Intuition
Most creative pursuits, by their very nature, put us in touch with our instincts. In business, it can be very advantageous to trust your gut – but we are often too scared to do so. Even if we do want to follow our intuition, we can become too far removed from it due to our heavy reliance on statistics, common practices, and advice from others. However, your gut instincts are usually correct. Learning to tap into your intuition when making a business decision, and developing the confidence to trust in its innate wisdom, can have a huge impact on your career.

2. You Will Give Your Brain Room To Think
Will Ferrel used to run regularly when he worked on Saturday Night Live. “Whenever I’d run,” he said, “I’d get these great ideas. I love what running does for your mind.” Indeed, giving your brain a break from thinking about your work problems, or about anything at all really, can help to get you out of a mental rut. Creative hobbies in particular can give you a fresh perspective on events that are happening in your professional field.

3. You Can Continue To Be Productive On Your Off Time
Taking a break from work is not only necessary for your mental and emotional health, but has also been shown to improve work performance. Many high achievers, however, struggle with this because of their internal drive to be productive. Sitting in front of the TV for a break does not feel right because it doesn’t accomplish anything. Taking a break to draw a picture, however, or to write a song, can be less guilt-inducing. While a creative outlet gives you a mental break in the sense that it shifts your focus from work to something more enjoyable, it also gives you something to show for your time.

4. Your Confidence Will Follow You To Work
Why do so many of us put our children’s artwork on our refrigerators? Because it makes them feel good about themselves. The feeling of satisfaction that comes from creating something out of nothing is hard to beat. It gives a boost to our self-esteem and self-image that makes us less likely to underestimate ourselves and more likely to take on new challenges. As an adult, having this mindset at work can make you more confident, capable, and assertive.

5. You Will Strengthen Your Creative Problem Solving Skills
How many times has your boss urged you to “think outside the box”? Engaging in a creative hobby can help you to do this more easily. Studies have shown that practicing music, in particular, can help your brain to work in new ways and give you a different viewpoint. Once your mind starts regularly changing up the beat that it marches to, new ideas and perspectives will flow more naturally in all areas of your life.

6. You Will Discover a Passion
Most people don’t want to spend their entire lives working for another person’s dream. Pursuing a creative interest could help you develop a passion that might one day even turn into your own business. Businesses based on a personal hobby are shown to have staying power, and to ultimately turn a better profit than those that are not. If you put your time and energy into your creative passion during your off-hours, you may someday find yourself able to quit your nine-to-five and pursue your dream full time. Open a dance school, start a catering business, become a travel writer, or capture the important moments in peoples’ lives on film. The opportunities are endless!

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VOCABULARY WORDS:
1. Justify => To show or prove to be right or reasonable.
2. Penchant => A feeling of liking something very much or a tendency to do something a lot.
3. Stellar => Exceptionally good outstanding.
4. Unwind => To begin to relax after you have been working hard or feeling nervous.
5. Intuition => An ability to know or understand something through your feelings, rather than by considering facts or evidence.
6. Tumultuous => Very loud, or full of confusion, change, or uncertainty
7. Drone => A drone, in a technological context, is an unmanned aircraft. Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:

1. How can a hobby bring success?
2. Why do children like putting their art work on the fridge’s door?
3. What are some of the creative hobbies which you think can make a person successful?