Lifelong Learning - Blogging

So, here is my very first blog entry ever. Very weird. As if writing in my personal journal and everyone is looking over my shoulder! This will take some getting used to. Anyway, back to the assignment...the easiest and hardest of the 71/2 habits of highly successful lifelong learners. The easiest and hardest actually are the same for me: habit 71/2 - playing! I would love to continuously be reading and learning and playing but feel guilty if I do take time to do so. There is always something else "more important" that I really should be doing than reading a book on how to play poker or, for example, which I would love to do. And then, when I do take the time and read a book on how to make most delicious chocolate truffles and master the skill and have really good time doing it, then the old guilt hits and I chastise myself for not having spent my time more usefully....I guess what I am saying is: I have to get over the idea that there are "useful" and "useless" things to learn. All my goals I want to achieve are valid.