What would you do with an extra few weeks of vacation?

David Damron of The Minimalist Path turns in a great guest post today on Zen Habits:

If you had the opportunity to do one activity for one week without any worry about finances, cost, or other outside commitments, what would you love to do for this week?

You may actually have this time at your disposal already. Turns out the average American watches an astonishing 5.1 hours of television each day. That’s the equivalent of over three work weeks each month.

I dumped my TV a couple years ago, but discovered how much time I was destroying elsewhere when I went on a social media diet. After throttling back on Twitter and Facebook (and outright abandoning other services), I was surprised how quickly my creativity and productivity blossomed.

Nothing you enjoy doing is really wasted time. But if you were willing to give up television, social media, or some other major commitment, what could you do with all those recovered hours?

Calendar image based on a photo by Katy Warner and distributed under a Creative Common License.