I believe you should look at life as an inside-out doughnut, where the hole is on the outside and the dough is in the middle. There should be a core to your life, to do with earning money, having a house, or whatever, but if you let that core fill the whole of the doughnut, you are missing out on a lot. There's an awful lot of interesting space there, but you have to organise yourself to do it. That's the key thing, what we call the struggle to idleness - trying to gain control of your own life, to allow yourself three months in Tuscany or whatever it is. It's very important you do.
People let other people control their lives.
You can also look at in quite a different way. Ten years ago, when I became totally freelance, my wife Liz and I worked out that out of the 365 days of the year we needed 100 days to make serious money - I do that by teaching at various seminars. I also need 100 days a year to write and read, and roughly 50 days a year for my causes and campaigns. That leaves 115 days which we can use for our own pursuits. That's actually very mean to ourselves in a way, because most people have at least that if you add up all the weekends, eight public holidays plus whatever holidays their entitled to.