The Bosstick Travel & Free Time Playbook: How We Recharge, Reset & Get The Most Out Of Life

**Michael Bosstick** (0:01)
Welcome to The Bossticks. Starring Lauryn Bosstick and Michael Bosstick. Together, they are The Bossticks.
We are back in the studio. We're doing another solo episode. We're having fun with these solos again, kind of getting back to our roots of the early days. Of course, we're gonna continue to have guests and incredible names on. We're getting ready to do a big recording session coming up after the summer. But we're having fun with these because this is how the show started. It's Lauryn and I doing these kinds of things, answering questions. We have a lot of questions from you guys. And on this one, we're gonna talk about things that we, something that we actually don't talk about a lot, which is how we manage our free time when we're off, when we're not working, when we're taking time to ourselves to recharge. We realize we talk a lot on this show about how to be a high performer, how to get things done, how to operate businesses, how to be in a relationship. But we're also human beings. We take time off, we go on vacations, we enjoy life. We're not just go, go, go all the time. We take a lot of downtime. So we're gonna talk about that and how we enjoy life and how we reset and how we take time for ourselves.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (1:05)
Today I was meditating and I was thinking about this episode. And to me, free time is in two buckets. The first bucket for me is that every hour that I'm not working, I feel like I'm either compounding my life or I'm distracting from it. And so I think about that when it comes to free time.
And I try to spend my free time compounding it. The other way I think about free time is that I also need to recharge to do what I do.

**Michael Bosstick** (1:37)
What do you mean compounding it? Compounding what?

**Lauryn Bosstick** (1:39)
Meaning like if I'm sitting around during my free time consuming other people's content every single second that I have a day off, that's not doing anything productive. So how I would prefer to spend my free time is reading, walking with my children, with my husband, cleaning. I love cleaning. Just doing things that I feel like...
Doing things that I feel like move the needle as opposed to just distracting myself.

**Michael Bosstick** (2:06)
I am different.
I am either like hiding out alone by myself thinking so intensely that I am starting to drive myself nuts. And why I have to be around by myself is because anyone around me during that time is also being driven nuts. Or I am doing something that is completely mindless and useless, looking at memes, playing video games, reading fiction books, things where I don't have to think about anything. And I use that as the time to kind of just like give my brain a reset and give myself permission to like not think about anything or any responsibility.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (2:49)
It's called being cerebral.

**Michael Bosstick** (2:51)
No, being cerebral is when I like really am like intensely thinking. I'm talking about like being brain dead at times, like just not doing like playing old video games, relaxing, reading fiction books, like not having to think about any of my responsibilities.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (3:05)
What video games do you play?

**Michael Bosstick** (3:07)
I was recently playing this new James Bond video game called First Light. I think First Light, that was called Look That Up, Carson. And I was playing Call of Duty. Sometimes I will go and play like Wii games. Zazz was learning how to play Mario Kart and playing that. I like to be like really, really in it or really, really out of it. I don't like this thing where like I have to always be in my head all the time because that can start to be a lot. I think a lot of people relate like, you know, you have to be able to switch off for somebody who's for some people that are switched on all the time, which I would categorize myself as that, not from an intelligence perspective, just like brain racing all the time. I have to have things that completely switch me off, right? Like a lot of people really love biographies or business books or self-helps. When I need to switch off, I'm going to fiction and science fiction and things that I don't that have nothing to do with what's going on in the world.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (3:55)
My video game is what?

**Michael Bosstick** (3:58)
I have no idea.

**Lauryn Bosstick** (3:59)
Come on. What is my video game? Are you Super Mario? No, no, no. Like what is my video game? It's not a video game. It's like my video game is.