Hobbies Bringing Me Happiness in My 40s and How to Start Your Own Hobby Renaissance
If you want to know yourself better by the end of the year, start these five hobbies now. We’re talking analog hours, chlorine smells, hobby flops, and the joy in returning to what sparked joy at 14.
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The 9 hobbies that are bringing me happiness—as a 41 year old, business owner, and mom of 3
Swimming!! One of my first loves!
Learning Spanish on Duolingo. I’m currently on a 131-day streak!
Curating my Explore Feed on Instagram.
Adding to my Vision Boarding Journal. Try my free Canva templates here. Take my vision boarding class here.
Photography with my grandpa’s old film camera.
Reading fiction for pleasure.
Puzzles with the family or solo!
Paint by numbers with a podcast or audiobook. Right now I’m loving the Acquired podcast.
Family home videos. This is one I’m excited to get more into! Just started following Mariah Marcía on Instagram @mariah_mpls and bought her course.
If your goal is to know yourself better by the end of the year, start these five hobbies now:
FOR YOUR BODY: swimming — yoga, hiking, rowing, pilates
ONLINE: explore feed — youtube, pinterest, duolingo
OFFLINE AKA ANALOG: vision boarding — journaling, painting, knitting, vinyl records
WITH FAMILY + FRIENDS: photography — flower class, puzzles
TOTALLY SOLO: reading + paint by numbers — travel, walk without audio, movie alone
Journal prompts to reconnect with your interests and find inspiration to get back into hobbies:
What hobby would I take up if I knew it’d be worth it?
What’s something I used to do that I miss?
What activity always helps me get back into my body?
If I had dial up internet again, what’s something I’d actually enjoy doing online?
What’s a totally analog hobby I’d love to do for an hour?
If I got to plan an ideal afternoon with friends or family, what’s on the agenda?
If I had a morning or evening all to myself, how would I spend it?
Deep down, you already know what’s worth it & what’s wasting your time.
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Listen to Episode 239 of Celebrate Cultivate
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[00:00:00] Hello. You are listening to Celebrate Cultivate. I am your host, intuition coach, and voice in your earbuds, Kaileen Elise Sues. Today's episode is all about the hobbies bringing me happiness in my 40s, plus some inspiration for you to start your own personal hobby renaissance. We are getting into all of the things that have been sparking joy in my spare time and why being mediocre is the spice my life's been missing.
But first, I wanna invite you to join me for my upcoming workshop. Goal Setting With Intuition is a live three-day experience on October 27, 28, and 29th from noon to 1:30 PM Central Time. [00:01:00] Registration is open now over at kaleenelise.com, or you can click the link in the show notes. If you've heard about my program Spring Forward before, or even if you've taken it, Goal Setting With Intuition is my fall reboot of that experience.
So we will be meeting for three days, 90 minutes on Zoom. You can join to be there with us while it's happening or to catch the replays if you prefer to get cozy, watch us on two speed from your bed at the end of the day, or even that weekend if that fits your schedule better. The main focus of Goal Setting With Intuition is to help you get clear on what you want to focus on and what really matters to you right now, and to help you clear the stuff that is in the way physically, emotionally, spiritually, psychically.
Whatever it is, the stuff that is holding you back [00:02:00] from achieving your goals, we are going to release it, and then we're gonna get super clear on what those goals are and how you're gonna achieve them by the end of this year. Or if you have a different timeframe in mind, that's fine, too. It is really a flexible program that helps you focus in on what you want to achieve in alignment with what matters most to you and what your intuition is telling you.
So check it out over at kaleenelise.com, or send me a DM over on Instagram, I'm @kaleenelise, if you have any questions at all. Okay, so now onto our hobby talk. It's so interesting that I'm even having an episode here on the podcast about hobbies, because for a long time I had a lot of resistance to the concept or idea of hobbies, I think because not that long ago, Etsy was, [00:03:00] like, this big, growing platform, and so many people were monetizing their hobbies.
I had a lot of, like, FOMO, I think, and maybe a little bit of jealousy about that. The... I mean, there was definitely a point in time where having an Etsy shop was, like, the coolest thing, and I mean, it still is. If you have an Etsy shop, I'm still jealous of you. But- The monetization of hobbies was this thing that I just had a lot of inner tension about I'm not a crafty person, but I am a creative person and I think that the word hobby just kind of felt like maybe frivolous in my perspective and not that productive.
One time someone I really love called my business, my work a hobby business, and I almost died. Like, I felt so insulted by it because I was like It just made it feel not legitimate, and if any of you [00:04:00] out there have grown your own business, started your own business, or tried to do that, I, I think a lot of us feel this desire for it to be legitimate.
At least that was, like, a huge thing. I just remember for a long time wanting to feel like my business was legitimate. And so for someone to call it a hobby made it feel anything but. However, in like recent years and certainly in the last... Maybe since turning 40. I don't know. It's been a few years now.
I've really kind of come around to maybe I had it all wrong when it came to hobbies. I am doing so much of what used to be hobbies in my life for my business now. Like I... What I used to do when I worked a corporate job was spend time on the internet. I had a blog. I had... I was, like, very into Twitter when Twitter wasn't what it is now.
And I, you know, was very into Instagram [00:05:00] when it first got started. And so I think that, like, over time, my profession, my work, has morphed. Like the pr- the things that were my hobbies became my work. And I, I, I looked it up, okay? I looked up the definition of hobby. Merriam-Webster says it's a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation.
We like that. Like, when I look at that definition, then I realize, okay, hobbies are amazing, and we need them in our lives. My hobbies and the things that I have now relinquished that anxiety or tension around calling them hobbies, and now that I'm fully embracing them, I am finding that hobbies are bringing me so much happiness.
And as a 41-year-old business owner and mom of three, you know, I need happiness and I need something [00:06:00] for myself. And so I'm gonna share just this list of hobbies that are sparking joy, bringing me a little life. And hopefully by hearing mine, it'll inspire yours. But I also have some ideas on, on how to spark your own.
So for number one we've got swimming. I think I'm gonna do a whole episode about swimming at some point because- It deserves a space in my timeline, in my history on this podcast. Swimming was such a huge part of my life for so long. I started swimming competitively when I was seven years old. I swam all the way into college.
When I quit swimming, that was a huge identity crisis, and I think that, like, who I am now today is in large part to so many of the lessons that I started to learn when I quit swimming and had to rebuild and reconstruct a whole identity. [00:07:00] Because before that, it was just like, Kaileen is a swimmer. That was all there was to it.
I mean, I was good at school, and blah, blah, blah, but everything... Like, everything was a means to the end, and the end was swimming. So now, at 41 years old, after having not been in the pool for 20 years, I am back to training with a c- team. I have only... I've been to a handful of practices, but I found a team I like.
I found a pool I like. I'm absolutely obsessed and, like, can't wait to go to my next practice. And I have this, like, little bit of Oh, the feeling is like, "Gosh, I hope I don't get too sucked in. I hope I don't get too obsessed." And I think that is like a good marker of a good hobby. Like, to be so excited that you're like, "Wait, this could potentially take over my whole life," but to know that you...
I mean, I don't have a life that I can just hand over everything [00:08:00] to swimming. I have too many other things going on. But it feels really exciting and invigorating to have something that is of that much interest. And because it's something that I did for so long in this prior time in my life, the muscle memory and the nostalgia is really there, so it has been easy to fall back into swimming and to fall back into love with swimming.
So that's easily number one, but there is a whole long list, so let's get through them. So next I have Spanish on Duolingo. I talked about it in last week's episode with Brigitta. If you haven't listened to that yet, put that on, next on your list, because we are talking all about style and dressing without permission, not letting your body issues or your wallet be the reason why you have nothing to wear, because those aren't the real reason.
So go over there and check that out. But [00:09:00] Spanish is something that I... Again, I, I took Spanish classes in high school. I also, I didn't say this in the episode with Brigitta, but I also took Spanish classes in college, although I just repeated, like, Spanish 101 when I needed credits as a senior, so it wasn't very deep Spanish.
But I am loving Duolingo. It is part of my morning ritual. I do it every single morning with my coffee, and activating, like, another part of my brain, but also being able to help my son, who's taking Spanish in fifth grade. Like, that is... It's very fun. It feels like I'm a part of something in a different way.
So I'm really enjoying that. Okay, so the next one is purely digital and totally addictive. But I mean, we're already on Instagram. I know we are. If you're not on Instagram, I'm so proud of you. I'm so happy for you. S- that's great. Stay away. [00:10:00] But for those of us who are already on Instagram, I have taken to curating my Explore feed like it's- A hobby.
So a few months ago, a friend of mine shared her, uh, like a screenshot of her Explore feed, and it was so gorgeous and kind of like witchy and crystally, and it was just very much her vibes and nothing like the way my Explore feed looked, which at the time was, like, Real Housewives memes and parenting tips and how to add more protein and why you should be walking with weighted vests and all this, like, nonsense and stuff that, like, really is not a vibe and did not inspire me when I would, you know, swipe over to the Explore feed.
So I saw hers, and I was like, wait a second, like, there- there's another way, you know? And until you see it, you don't always know that it's a [00:11:00] problem or that it's bothering you. So what I did to curate my Explore feed, and what I've been doing, is when I am on Instagram and I'm over on my Explore feed, I'm really actively engaging with content that is beautiful, that is inspiring, that sparks my creativity and my curiosity and that I want more of visually, and anything that isn't under those categories, I just don't click.
I don't even linger because when you linger on something, even just mildly passively, the algorithm's gonna give you more of that. So I've been really enjoying this, and it has helped me find new accounts that are really cool and inspiring. I started following quite, like a handful of collage artists, which has, to [00:12:00] move into my next hobby, has really inspired my vision boarding journal, which is a total analog practice, a total, you know...
This is like... And it's also a throwback to something that I have been doing my whole life. So if you know me, you know I love vision boarding. I have a class on my website that you can take to learn how to vision board with your intuition. I have free vision boarding Canva templates for your desktop and for your phone.
I teach local workshops here in Austin at my friend's store, at the Paper and Craft Pantry. I have another one coming up in January, and it is all about vision boarding with your intuition. So, like, this is my jam, and when I was a kid, I would journal all the time, and I have, like, old journals from, like, when I was, yeah, like, 8 and 10 and 12 years old, that I would rip things out of magazines and glue them into my journal.
And so I think it [00:13:00] was probably because... Oh, I got this journal. I have tried this before, like journal vision boarding things, and it just never really stuck. But for some reason, it's sticking now, and I think part of it is because, A, I named it Hobby. I have, like, a little station. Like, I have this marble tray that I really like.
It's very heavy, and I put my magazines in it. I've got my scissors, my glue that I like. I've got the journal in there, and I've got all of my little clippings that I love to... I love cutting words and pretty images out of magazines. And so when I sit down to do my vision board journaling, I just, like, put stuff together, and I've also been pulling, like, little scrapbooky things.
Like Neil, my youngest, he drew a picture of a dinosaur the other day that was really cool, and so I asked him if I could have it, and I put it in my vision board journal. My older son, Owen, for his back to school night, he had to write our name tags, and so I kept my name tag and used that as one. [00:14:00] So it's like there isn't a A timeline when I do this, it's just when there's a moment in the house and I've got that window of...
You know what happens when you've got that window of like, okay, I might have 20 minutes, I might have an hour. What am I gonna do with my time? And you just kind of like are staring off into space, and it's like that same feeling when you're staring at the pantry and you're looking for the peanut butter, but you can't see it.
You don't know what to do with that 20 minutes or an hour. This is the kind of thing, like just falling into a hobby, and it's already all set up, and I can just pick it up and move on. And I was even working on it last night And I wasn't at a stopping point at all, but, like, the kids had moved on to doing something else, and I needed to go help them, so I just, like, closed my journal, put my tray away, and it'll be there when I come back.
And I think that's another sign of, like, a really good hobby. Kind of totally opposite from swimming, which is a whole endeavor. Like, I gotta have my swim bag packed. I gotta have my chlorine shampoo ready. Like, I gotta book myself a time at [00:15:00] the practice. You know, that is, is a pretty high lift on the admin side, whereas the vision board journaling is just, like, there, and I can fall into it whenever I have a moment.
Another analog thing that I am absolutely mediocre at and have no experience, no talent, no training, no nothing in, but I have some, again, kind of like mid equipment, is photography. So my grandpa gave me his film camera for my birthday last year, maybe the year before, and it is the camera that he used forever.
It's older or as old as I am. And when he gave it to me, he taught me how to load the film, and that was, like, basically it. It's a good camera. I have been shooting with it every so often. My subjects are my children, so of course they're perfect. [00:16:00] And I'm doing my best to find the light and to keep it pretty low pressure.
But again, the joy of not being good at something, but just doing it anyway. And also the thing about the, the film photography that's so fun is there is this waiting period. I am, I'm depositing, like, planting seeds of curiosity. Like, we'll see if this photo turns out. I have no idea. When I take a picture of the kids and they say, "Ooh, can I see it?"
I'm like, "Nope, I can't show you because I gotta take it to a place. I gotta get the film developed. I gotta wait for the scans to come in." Like, it's a whole thing. I am interested and curious about taking, like, a class, and I have one kind of picked out that maybe I'll, I'll do or treat myself to at a, a certain time, maybe for, like, Christmas or my birthday or something.
But for now, I'm just like... I'm just playing with photography and, and taking pictures, again, when there's, like, [00:17:00] sunshine and a moment and the kids are quiet and doing something, I just take pictures. It's been so, so fun. And I'm thinking about even dusting off an old digital camera that I've had forever.
We bought it many, many years ago, like when we were traveling maybe around like that 2017, 2019 timeframe, and I really haven't touched it since. I still have it. Like, I think I could just plug it in, charge it, and get going with it. So that's something I'm, I'm curious about. But photography as a hobby I feel like is something that, like, that's a pretty common hobby.
So maybe it's one that you wanna revisit, and just getting off of your phone and taking pictures just on a device that is only made to take pictures is a very different experience than snapping it with your phone, which then turns into checking your email, and then turns into answering your aunt's text, and then turns into adding things to your Amazon cart.
You know, it's a, it's a different experience. Much more [00:18:00] hobby vibes. Another analog hobby that is a longtime joy of mine that I flow in and out of depending on inspiration is reading. I have always had a deep love for buying books. I'm definitely one of those people that has bought more books than they have read.
And a friend of mine, we used to just go to Barnes & Noble and buy, like, a stack of books, and then we'd always joke like, "Are you gonna read these?" "Uh, I don't know." You know? There's like so much. I think it's... There, there has to be, like, a word for it. You know, that excitement and joy that comes from buying a book and all of the knowledge or adventure that you think you're gonna get to take while...
when you read it, and then... It is like buying a plane ticket and then never showing up for your flight. So it's a problem, honestly, and I have a whole beautiful bookshelf behind me with a, a [00:19:00] section actually that I created for myself that is books that I have bought that I still would like to read, and I'm very curious about the possibility.
I'm not making a grand proclamation here, but I am curious about the possibility of really training myself to like reading hard copy books again because I have turned into such a Kindle reader, and I don't... I, I mean, I borrow from the library when I read on my Kindle. I don't- hate it. I mean, I think Kindles are very convenient, but I just have so many great books behind me in my bookshelf that I- that really want me to read them.
So reading is a hobby. I'm not in a big reading zone right now, but maybe talking about it will inspire me to get back to reading. Another, oh, just like such a nostalgic, analog, amazing hobby that you can come and go with is puzzles. I love a puzzle. I got into doing [00:20:00] puzzles as a family over the summer when we were having that horrible summer and in and out of Airbnbs and all the things.
You know, sometimes those Airbnbs will have a puzzle, so I got into it. And, you know, puzzles are a good like community family activity, but they're also a nice solo activity with a podcast or an audiobook or something like that. Similarly, paint by numbers was something I really got into last holiday season, and I would do it like when the kids went to bed.
I would make myself a tea or per- pour myself a glass of wine. I had like all of my materials and things ready, and then I would play an audiobook or a podcast. I'm very into a podcast right now that is ... Like maybe you've heard of it. It, and it's not woo, and it's not personal development, and it, it's not even like motherhood related.
It's totally kind of [00:21:00] maybe not. Maybe it's just not on brand for me, but it's called Acquired. It is this podcast. It's really, really well done. The episodes are super long, and it is these deep dives into companies. I first listened to one about Disney. I think my grandpa sent it to me about Walt Disney.
Then they had a second episode that was also like Disney part two, and so I listened to six or seven hours of these guys talking about the Walt Disney Company and his life. Then I listened to one about Home Depot, and now I'm listening to one about Ferrari. I think I'm going to just listen to all of their episodes, and it's going to take me forever because they are really long, in depth.
But there's so much story and history and like marketing ideas, and obviously, again, I have a small business where I, that I run in the margins of my life as a, a mom and I run it by [00:22:00] myself. So by no means am I going to be able to take something that, you know, Disney does and apply it to my business. But it is nice to hear these stories, and I, I've just been really enjoying it.
So if you need a totally random podcast recommendation, Acquired is it. Let me know if you listen. Finally, there's one more hobby that's on my list of things that I wanna get into, and I already bought the class, so I've at least invested in it, and please, let's hope that it is not one of those things that I buy and never do.
I really wanna get back into home videos. Have you seen this girl on Instagram? She's, like, totally blown up, at least on my feed. Her username is Mariah_MPLS. She's a joy to follow. I will link her in the show notes for sure. But she has this whole thing about creating your home videos and, like, [00:23:00] just taking all that digital documentation that we have been doing for so long now and making sense of it.
Like, she has all these systems, but the... it's not, like, super nerdy, even though I- she has a background in video editing, so I know that she has, like, the technical know-how, which I really appreciate, because I don't. So anyways, I just took her, or I just bought, I haven't taken, her home video class. But I used to do home videos with this little app called One Second Everyday.
When the kids were little, I had, I did that every year for a lot of years, and then I just kind of, like, stopped. So I'm excited to get back into that. Again, this is, like, one of those hobbies that I'll probably dip in and dip out of, but it aligns with so many of the things that make me happy and that also do feed into that thing called productivity that I do crave.
You know, there's... Like, when I, when I first was, like, pregnant with Owen, so this was, like, 11 years [00:24:00] ago, I bought a baby book, and I never like finished it. And I always felt terrible about that, but it just didn't feel in alignment. And then I thought to myself, you know, at some point, I, if I want to get back into the stuff, I will.
And so maybe this is the time when I get back into it. Okay, if we're gonna talk about hobbies, we also have to talk about hobby flops. Like, there are definitely, if you're interested in exploring hobbies, adding to your hobby repertoire, if you are going to have a hobby renaissance, you're gonna get into hobbies that you're like, "Wait a second, I don't actually like this, and I don't want to do this."
A few of my absolute biggest hobby flop was when Adam was in business school, I was part of this group. It was mostly women, and it was like an organization for the partners and girlfriends of the people who were in business school. And we would like get together and there would be like craft [00:25:00] nights, there would be like Bunco nights, all of these like random things that we would do.
Because a lot of them had moved from other states or other, other towns and didn't know anybody, so it was like a social group. And one of the nights we made wreaths out of vintage books, like used books. I don't know. I, I hated it. It was such a flop. I hated making it. I hated the way it looked, and then when I got home, I was like, "What am I supposed to do with this?"
So one thing about me is that I hate going to a class that is then going to give me homework, and if you take goal setting with intuition, you will not have homework because in the 90 minutes that we meet for those three days, every single day we're gonna do the work in the session. Like, you're gonna walk away Done, like baked.
It's gonna be finished. I hate having homework but I also hate having like an end result that I don't know what to do with, and I'm so much of a minimalist. Like, I don't have wreaths. I'm not [00:26:00] gonna pull out a seasonal vintage book wreath. So that was a huge flop. Know thyself. Do not sign up for a wreath making class if you don't want to have a wreath at the end.
Similarly, like a few years ago, I, I got very like excited about the possibility of making beaded bracelets. I was even gonna make them for the women in A Year of You at one point, so I like bought a bunch of stuff. I went to the bead store that all of that is just collecting dust in my office closet. I have no interest in making beaded bracelets.
I'm never going to. I should just donate the materials or give it all to Merit. I'm sure my daughter would love it. That is a major, major flop. And then finally, one that has like come and gone over time that I would maybe say felt like a flop, but actually I did learn quite a bit about it, is I've taken a handful of classes for hand lettering and there was a point in time probably when I was having my Etsy FOMO that I felt like, oh, I really should get into...
I could be a hand [00:27:00] letterer. I, I could be somebody who writes pretty. And I do have nice handwriting. I like my handwriting, and I love words. I love quotes. I, I feel like I have the makings of somebody who could be into hand lettering I am not though, actually. But one of the things that I have learned in taking hand lettering classes is the way to play with the form and the shape of letters.
And so when I need to write a card or address an envelope, and I want it to look nice, I have a few, like, tricks up my sleeve. It is not a hobby, but it is something that I can use. Okay, so now that we've gone through all of my hobbies and my flops, and I want to get to, like, the part of, like, how do we apply this to you and what is the inspiration you can take away from it?
But first I wanna just talk about, like, what are we noticing? Like, what are the common themes? Well, A, I'm a millennial. I am now proudly [00:28:00] middle-aged, she says with a question mark, and I'm very into my analog life. Like, none of this was AI-coded, you might have noticed. I'm not, I'm not into that right now.
That's just not sparking joy for me. I know that's what so much of the world is into, and we're headed that way, and blah, blah, blah, but that's not where my hobbies are gonna be. The things that are making me happy in my 40s, honestly, are so much of the things that were making me happy when I was 14. And I think the thing about being 14 is that you're not that good at everything, but, like, you're starting to be good at some things, and you're very aware of what feels good and what doesn't feel good.
The thing I have now that I didn't have when I was 14, aside from, like, bills to pay and children to take care of and all that stuff, is this knowledge that there is time to build consistency, and that if we're lucky, if life is [00:29:00] long, we can come in and out of things, right? So I can come back to swimming now.
And the... One of the things that I'm so excited about with swimming or photography or even reading, like, all of these things is, like, I can do these things for another 20 or 40 years, and that is thrilling to me. So if you, you know, have listened to the podcast and you heard me talking about I don't have a vision for myself in the future, I don't know, like, what my goals are, I've talked about that.
Now I'm starting to get a better sense of what my goals are and what my interests are at least for this next chapter and what's on the horizon, and I can start to build some goals that maybe don't monetize my hobbies, but incorporate them and support them and help me make space and time for them. So if your goal is to know yourself better [00:30:00] by the end of this year, I'm gonna offer you five categories of hobbies to start now.
And I'm not telling you to, like, go out and buy all the gear and do all of the things. Like, starting the hobby n- m- now might just be You know, one tiny action. It's not a whole thing, but here are the five categories. I want you to start a hobby that relates to your body in some way, some sort of movement, some sort of connection to your body.
For me, it's obviously swimming, but it could be yoga, hiking, rowing, Pilates, fly fishing, you know, knitting. It doesn't have to be exercise, but just something tactile that gets you reconnected to your body in a way that feels really good to you. Okay, so we're gonna do body as number one. Number two, we're gonna involve the online digital world because [00:31:00] there's no escaping it, and you might as well...
There's, like, so many awesome hobbies that are related to life online. So maybe it is your Explore feed that you want to curate and make beautiful. Send me a DM if you have any questions about that because I could talk about that forever. Maybe you wanna get into watching YouTubes, or you wanna start your own YouTube.
Same thing with Pinterest, or maybe you wanna take up Duolingo and be my friend, and we can have friends streaks together. You know, something that is digital that just is purely joy, fun, happiness. Number three, we're gonna take it offline, analog, and for me, that is the vision boarding, but maybe for you, it's journaling or painting or getting into vintage vinyl records.
Ugh, that is, like, on my to-do list also. It has been for so long, but it just hasn't flowed yet, so I'm not gonna worry about it. Maybe you collect crystals, and you wanna get, you know, deeper into that, or you want to learn how to read tarot. [00:32:00] Something... Or not even learn, but just, like, get back into it.
Something offline, analog. Number four is a hobby that relates to family and friends in some way. So for me, that has been photography and puzzles, but maybe it's taking a class, a flower arrangement class with a group of girlfriends. I've done that before, and it's always so fun, and it... You do go home with something.
But that something eventually dies, and you just put it away in the compost bin, and then you have a skill that you can live on with. It's wonderful. And then number five, you're gonna pick a solo hobby, just something that really is a l- that is a solitary effort. It's just for you Reading, painting, those have been ones for me.
But maybe it's traveling, taking a trip by yourself, or just going for walks without any audio, without any agenda. Maybe you go to the [00:33:00] movies alone. Oh, I used to go to the movies alone when I started reading Julia Cameron's book. What is that book called? The Artist's Way. That's what it's called, The Artist's Way.
So the Jul- when I read that book, one of the artist dates that I took myself on was to go to the movies by myself. So maybe that's, like, a hobby you take up for yourself. Whatever it is, just pick something, name something, and you have enough time between now and the end of the year to make a little action on each of these categories.
I'm gonna put some journal prompts in the show notes and the Instagram post for today's episode. I'm not gonna go through them right now, because we are tight on time, but these prompts will help you name what those categories of hobbies are, and help you kind of unearth what are the things that you want to play with towards now to the end of the year.
And if you are like, [00:34:00] "Okay, I wanna start a personal hobby renaissance, but I'm really not sure, like, where I would fit this in with all the other priorities and things that are vying for my attention," then Goal Setting with Intuition is gonna help you with that. We'll get you from feeling stuck in survival mode, which believe me, I can relate to.
I can relate. And we're gonna help you get to moving with momentum. Registration is open now. You can join live on October 27th, 28th, or 29th, or you can sign up so you can watch those replays, okay? Either way, I'm so excited to welcome you in. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. Come over to Instagram.
I'm @kaileenelise. Come tell me what is your favorite hobby that you're into right now, or what is the one that you're gonna pick up? And I will be back next week with another guest episode. I'm truly [00:35:00] so excited for you to hear this one. We are going to get into returning to self, energetic honesty, and the power in sticking with a wild idea.
I will talk to you then.
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