What are your ideas for providing yourself with distraction when bored?

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Share your inspo.

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When I’m bored, I try to not default to the cheap dopamine stuff like porn or mindless scrolling anymore. I do either something useful, quick tidy, laundry, a short walk, gym, meal prep, or I pick something actually absorbing like a show, a book, a game, cooking, or calling a friend. If I catch the urge to just watch something, I pause and ask myself if I’m genuinely horny or just bored, stressed, lonely, procrastinating. Just as this app said so and it’s working out really well for me and I’m much more self aware. If it’s boredom, I switch tasks and let the urge pass instead of feeding it.

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Do laundry, clean the bathroom

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Working out, gardening in season

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Watching TV was initial idea but doesn’t work at all. Next is to try reading, exercising or listening to music

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Working out, sauna, or reading

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Building a Lego sculpture

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Calling a friend
Playing piano
Bird watching
Learning a song on the guitar
Drawing

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Go for a walk or workout

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Explore new and exciting bands/genres of music.
Exercise
Play the Bass guitar
Organise something in my room

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Sudoku, video game, go for a walk, listen to audiobook, gym

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organise photos on phone

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I could read a book, play a video game or do a task I’ve been putting off

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Work on an app

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Read short stories.
Play the piano.
Walk out the front door.
Read about different countries.
Play my favorite city-building game.
Read about recipes to try.

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Redirect my mind to something that keeps me interested. Reading/gaming/watching tv

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I’m normally bored while working from home, so a podcast helps keep my rytrhem and focus

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Reading is a good outlet, I should focus more on music production

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Start with a shower, but a proper shower. Clean every part of yourself until its genuinley sparkling: use a luffa, lather with various soaps and conditioners. And then do a close shave, as clean a shave as you can get it. No music or podcast accompaniment throughout, just focus on cleanliness and tidiness.

so much stuff comes to my head when I’m concentrating on only these (somewhat dull) tasks - the advantage is that you leave the bathroom with big ideas for what to do that day, and you’re washed & prepared for it

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Call a friend to hang out. Go to the gym. Go for a swim. Clean the apartment. See what’s happening in the city. Go salsa dancing or check out a festival. Listen to music. Plan my evenings and weekends with activities ahead of time so that I always have options.