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Today most everyone has a leisure lifestyle of some kind. It is actually a lifestyle in which a person has found an agreeable, perhaps exhilarating, balance of work, non-work obligations, and leisure itself. Here one makes discretionary time commitments, which are essentially, un-coerced, allocations of a certain number of minutes, hours, days, or other measure of time devoted to carrying out a leisure activity. Voluntary simplicity is a distinctive lifestyle that bridges work, leisure, and non-work obligation. Lifestyle becomes critical in retirement, for now there is often no longer a paying job to occupy much of one’s time. Leisure lifestyle is not part of the common sense image of leisure, but is rather part of the individual’s positive personal image of leisure.
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Stebbins, R.A. (2017). Leisure Lifestyle. In: Leisure’s Legacy . Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59794-2_12
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