Staying in the house can quickly start to feel repetitive or mundane. When you find productive things to do at home and you’re purposeful with your time, you’ll be surprised at what you can accomplish!
If global or local circumstances require you to remain at home right now, you may be struggling with changes to your routine. Regardless of whether the reasons for your home confinement are health- or economic-related, here’s a list of productive things you can do at home to make the most of your time.
Even when conditions improve and normal routines resume, keep these ideas on hand! They make great down-time activities for anyone, anytime.
1. Meditate: When we meditate, we inject far-reaching and long-lasting benefits into our lives: We lower our stress levels, we get to know our pain, we connect better, we improve our focus, and we're kinder to ourselves. In meditation, we’re learning how to pay attention to the breath as it goes in and out, and notice when the mind wanders from this task.
2. Create a bucket list: A bucket list (in case you didn't know) is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. Making a bucket list can help you prioritise your hopes and dreams, and to stay focused on making them a reality.
The best time to get started is now because there really is no time like the present!
3. Clean your fridge: As the cornerstone of food storage, and arguably the hardest working appliance in the kitchen, our fridges don't always receive the attention they rightfully deserve.
4. Start a journal: A great way to keep your thoughts organized and clear your mind is to write them down in a journal. Writing is a great exercise for anyone and by expressing yourself in a personal place is a wonderful way to stay sane.
5. Polish your jewelry: After years of wear, you might not even notice that your jewelry has lost its shine. Dirt, debris, and daily grime build up over time, making jewelry look dull. Luckily, there are many easy solutions for cleaning. You don't need a professional, or expensive jewelry polish, to breathe life back into your favorite gems.
6. Shine your silver: Actually, silver items react not only with sulphur in the air. Perfumes, cosmetics, hair spray, hand cream, oils from skin and even some foods – can get the metal to tarnish and lose its lustre and shine. Luckily there are some simple and inexpensive ways to remove tarnish, polish and clean silver.
7. learn another language: Despite the difficulties in learning a language, multi-language acquisition is rapidly growing in popularity around the world and bilinguality is becoming more of a highly-desired resume addition.
8. Learn something new: Learning something new is always an exciting endeavor. The problem is that most of us get wrapped up in busy distractions throughout the day and never find the time to learn the new skill we want.
9. Declutter one room: Before you start to declutter your home, have containers defined for the following purposes to sort items: trash, donate, put away, fix or mend, and recycle.
10. Make your own soap: Once you learn how to make soap, you can begin experimenting with your own homemade recipes, and truly make it your own.
Cheers to your success 📈
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