Make Every Day Useful

What if you wake up one morning and just can’t be bothered to make the day a good, productive, and fun one? I have a few suggestions:

• Take a walk.
  • Getting some fresh air does wonders to your mind and body.
  • Walking allows your mind to wander and really process your day’s priorities.
• Eat well for breakfast.
  • Don’t eat in front of your computer or TV.
  • When you’re in a sour mood, it can be very easy to justify watching ‘just one more episode’ and continue that justification until your day is wasted.
• Write down your emotional and mental state.
  • You can toss the paper after if you’re uncomfortable with the writing, but formalizing your thoughts often lends new perspective on the issues in your head.
  • Physically set what you wrote aside until a future time when you’re more emotionally prepared to deal with it.
• Force yourself to write notes about everything that you read or watch
  • Stopping to think and write forces you to slow down and consume less information
  • The mental resistance caused by having to formulate the note might be boring enough that you stop reading articles or watching videos
  • Writing notes about the information you are consuming helps you to truly think about it and build up the memory in your brain
• Take smarter breaks.
  • Going to grab a drink of water is an excellent way to take a break compared to mindless internet surfing.
  • Taking a 10 minute walk clears your head and allows your thoughts to wander. Getting that out of your system might help you focus better when you return to your work.
• Force the issue.
  • Go to campus or work with the bare minimum: just a notebook and textbook.
  • set your phone to airplane mode to very conveniently ignore all notifications.
  • Install ‘cold turkey’ or similar site / program blocking apps on all of your devices.