Staying busy.

Throughout this quarantine time, I see and hear many people trying to find things to do to keep themselves busy.

This is certainly a time where many of us have free time that we don’t really know what to do with.

Free time is never a bad thing – it gives us an opportunity to get things done that we need to do or to relish in new experiences that we’ve always wanted to try or visit.

However, I used to find myself using my free time poorly.

 

Really, I wasn’t using it at all.

 

I was sitting around, bored, doing nothing productive.

What I found I did in my free time was overthink.

I began to question myself about everything in life, I was always worried I wasn’t doing the right things or that I should be doing something, I began to fall into negative thoughts and places I didn’t need to be in.

After a while, I had to make plans on courses of action during my free time.

Not only just to figure out what I could do, but how to get my butt out of the bed or my chair.

Over the past year, I’ve found keeping myself busy is easy – not only because my schedule has changed, but because I have a plan.

I have an imagination, I have ambitions, and I have goals…

All aligned with a little plan.

It helps that during this time of quarantine that I have a job that I can do at home, so I’m still working full-time.

However, there isn’t a dull moment in life when I have dull moments in time.

Be creative – be prepared.

I encourage you to create a plan for yourself on how to stay busy.

Make a to-do list, check out things around the house you can do to help yourself or your family/roommates, etc.

There’s always plenty to do – especially with a plan.

NS