Hi all, I very much enjoy reading all the POST Fire posts. DH and I are a few years away from FIRE, but I was thinking about something this weekend....
We had a long weekend up here, and I feel like I was not productive at all. Yesterday especially, DH had to work, and I was at home, and I did nothing! I had wanted/could have done a bunch of things that would have been productive (some projects around the house, organizing some messy closets, cleaning, cooking, working out). I stupidly got sucked into watching youtube videos, and next thing you know the whole day was gone.
In reading the post-fire and other posts around this forum, it seems like FIRE types tend to optimize their time...always.
DH and I were way more ambitious, but we seem to be slowing down a bit. For context, I spent the past year living away from home for work, working 60 hr weeks+ 8 hrs of driving most weeks. I was involved with a community theatre in my work location, DH plays hockey, we run an Airbnb in our basement, and before I moved away DH and I both were very active tutors (which involved commuting all over the city). We also used to be a lot more active (did a marathon last year..eww gross).
So I'm not sure if the past few months are just me "re-adjusting" to having free time at home, or if this is my new pace of life? Note that my work pace has dropped drastically as well, and I'm now back to 40 hr weeks, with very low stress at the moment. So it is a lot of reading this forum, and waiting between tasks.
I can imagine a post fire life for us though that may involve kids (which I feel like would make me less lazy), and also being able to focus more on our side hustles, and hobbies, which now go on the back burner. But part of me is concerned that I would get sucked into a "boring" life, that doesn't bring me a lot of joy.
I guess I'm looking for advice from FIREd people, did you find you became more productive in your personal life once you FIREd?