It’s time for a screen cleanse! Get away from your phone, computer, or TV for just a minute if you can. Here are some ideas:
- Cook a meal
- Have coffee with a friend (alone is fine too)
- Annotate a magazine article and feel very smart
- Walk your dog
- Cuddle your fur baby (whichever type you happen to own)
- Take yourself for a walk and really notice things in your neighborhood
- Journal or morning pages
- Feng shui your home
- Write a crappy or amazing poem (by hand)
- Try out a new sport
- Get your laundry done
- Cull and organize your wardrobe
- Make a mind map of the novel you want to write
- Take a bath with salts or a bath bomb
- Decorate your planner or bullet journal
- Really groom yourself
- Daydream
- Yoga stretches
- Adult. Coloring. Books.
- Meditate for at least one minute
- Find flowers and/or herbs to press in a book and/or dry
- Go for a drive and blast your favorite songs
- Treat yourself to a nice bottle of wine
- Find a shady spot under a tree and just BE
- Walk along the beach and look for shells
- Swim in a crystal clear lake
- Hike in the woods
- Follow an essential oil recipe
- Poke around the curios in a local new age shop
- People watch
- Visit the library & enjoy the serenity
- Make your own matcha latte
- Rearrange your furniture
- Write up a bucket list and try to check some items off
- Buy a newspaper and challenge yourself to the crossword puzzle
- Draw/sketch
- Make flip book animation
- Teach yourself to shuffle playing cards
- Find an artistic medium you’ve never tried before
- Play a board game
- Pick wildflowers to put in a mason jar on your desk
- Make new lists in your bullet journal
- Organize your desk
- Wash your sheets & make your bed
- Wander around a museum for an afternoon
- Shop at a farmer’s market
- Repurpose old clothes (e.g. make a bag from old jeans)
- Listen to vinyls and dance your pants off
- Sort through your books and movie collections and donate titles you’ll probably never read/watch again
- Have lunch somewhere with just a book or magazine as a dining companion
I hope some of these help free you from the ball and chain of technology! Now put down your phone or shut down your computer, and get out there!
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