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>Absolutely make time for guilt-free relaxing.

This. If you engage in a guilt-laden form, it's not really relaxation, and thus has little utility—rendering it a waste of time.

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What might constitute a guilt-laden form?

Engaging in a leisure activity while feeling guilt for doing so.

It's probably safe to say there's a large overlap with procrastination.

WaitButWhy has a great piece on this idea: http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/11/how-to-beat-procrastination.ht...

To me, this means asking the following: when you do something, do you feel guilty after? Do you hate yourself for playing 5 hours of video games every night when you know you could be productive? That's a guilt-laden activity.

For some, the video games might not even be games they particularly enjoy—just grindy/addictive games that have a superior numbing effect or sense of progress.

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