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What To Do When Bored - Part Three: Stress Reliever

Controlling your stresses in life is easy— not. You may experience struggling forces that may hinder you from relaxation. Everyone has the power to control all your senses to be stress-free. Enabling yourself to learn how to divert your attention to different things. Here are some of the things that you can consider in relieving your stress amidst the crisis:

1. Haircut It is a trend lately, where people tend to shave their head or let someone do the job. Giving yourself a fresh look and surpassing your do-you-think-this-will-suit-me thinking. Well, a bad haircut isn’t bad at all as long as you are into it and you can pull it off. You should always be ready for the outcome.

2. Get a hold of your skin care

Discovering products that suits your skin. Having clear skin is not merely hereditary—but your personal care for your face or body, has a big impact in achieving clear skin. You may consider going to your doctor, for consultation. While there are so many ways in taking good care of your skin, in reality, the internet provides it all but the doctor knows better.

3. Meditate

Giving yourself some time to take a break. Using meditating methods such as listening to therapeutic music or even yoga. Yoga is said to be beneficial when it comes to your breathing, physical and mental health. Finding your inner peace is the main benefit of meditating.

4. Social media detox

You may have been entangled through some online trends and news. Reading posts, tweets or even pictures that may trigger your stress. Getting out in the real world for a while and breathe in some fresh air.

Tip: Stop sharing fake news and read the article before reacting to such.

5. Take some personal calls

Engaging yourself to communication, in fact, talking to your parents, relatives or your special someone (if you have one) can help in relieving your stress. Having some personal connections can give you the satisfaction of inner-peace, regardless if your topic is about problems. Now that is not counted. Simple conversations is food for the soul already.

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What To Do When Bored - Part Two: Let’s be Creative

Seeing yourself as an artist. You might see creativity as something that you can’t learn but with ideas, originality and uniqueness, you can be an artist of your own craft. It’s like living your passion with fun, as a spice. Existence of ingenuity can bring out the best in you. Time and effort combined, results in talent and unlocked skill, together with perseverance.

Having limited resources in the midst of crisis, here are some of the things that you can do to express, develop and discover oneself:

1. Photography Explore mobile photo editing trends such as Picsart theme, Canva, Snapseed, VSCO cam, and Lightroom. Make your picture vibrant and artistic while having fun. Set up DIY photoshoots with just your camera! Bonus points if you have a tripod or a stand. Create different themes to do for your shoot. Having these ideas in mind would increase your visual creativity and maximize your skill in idealistic thinking.

Tip: Lighting is one of the main factors that you need to achieve a good quality photograph.

2. Painting With a blank canvass and an imaginative mind, you can create your art by brushing colors. A span of minutes to hours, or maybe days before you can produce art. It can be abstract, realistic, stencils, or even a sketch. Everything that your hands can create and your mind to visualize is an art. Mix and match your way to colorful, nude, bright, or dark paintings. Experiment on colors and subtle mixing will create different textures and hues that could help you create a masterpiece.

3. Full house entertainment Singing your heart out. That’s how they call it. Submitting yourself to music and rhythm, produces entertainment for your family, or you can showcase your talent through livestreaming. Practicing songs that are on current trends, watching dance tutorials and creating a music video.

4. Be a home chef Unleashing your cooking skills by searching for recipes and recreating the dish. Well, with certain food innovations, you can recreate a dish with a twist. Adding some spice and your secret ingredient will make it your own. Exploring cuisines and watching cooking shows will help you in crafting your own dish. Taste with tongue, think with your mind and visualize with eyes.

Buena comida. Buena vida.

5. Put pen to paper Familiar with journal and diary? Yes, you’re right. This hobby turns your thinking to words. Answering questions in your brain and putting it in a piece of paper or a notebook. Writing your favorite memories, plans, daily life happenings and the not-so-good events in your life. Well, typically your personal lookup. Most of the time this pen to paper hobby is confidential. Where secrets are vested.

6. Write a blog Blog writing seems fascinating yet a hard thing to do, but what makes it easier? It is your way on writing your own blog, being truthful and giving justice to your given topic. There are various types of blogs: videos, photos and words. First choose your type, then right after chose your content. It can be a current trend blog, skin care routine, product review, fashion or even a wall for your own craft. Always remember, you’re open yet elusive.

7. Learning podcast Audio streams are in trend nowadays. If you’re the type of person wherein you tend to tell stories a lot but you really don’t want to be known, let’s say you’re anonymous or you can be a known publicist or even a DJ, Rj and VJ. This platform is good for you, where you can share everything that you want in public regardless of what your topic is all about. As long as you are accountable and mindful about what you say, since it is an episodic audio stream.

Recommendation: The Coping Up Podcast (CUP), BW (Boiling Waters PH). It’s the RoundTable, GTWM (Good Times with Mo), Ted Talks Daily, Stories After Dark, HILAKBOT by RED and The Linya-Linya Show,

8. Be a youtuber and livestreamer Talking to yourself in front of the mirror is practicing your communication skills, the way you interact with people. That’s the same as entertaining people in front of the camera with these platforms. Being an aspiring content creator, you should be aware of your audience, trends and the likes of the majority. Creating connections through online interactions.

9. Recreate clothes Doodling your own clothes with paints, scraps and threads. Here are some of the things and techniques that you can use to redesign your clothes. • Bleaching • Cut and Sew • Mix and Match • Paint on Cloth

10. Organizing your wardrobe Rearranging your clothes by color or type. Now, that’s your way on getting things in place. You’re not gonna have a hard time picking your style. Fash-own. Own your fashion.

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What To Do When Bored - Part One: Let`s have fun

Some of us are bored and stuck in the four corners of our room, with nothing to do. Being lonesome in the midst of boredomness, is no disgrace in your life. Keeping yourself entertained and diverted in times like this makes you feel energized and whole. As I browse the net, I made a list of fun things that you should consider while you sit back and enjoy yourself. 

1. Play an interactive game. You tend to be so eradicated about not doing anything fun. Specially, when you are an active person. Regardless of you being techy, sporty, or even artistic. The modern technology caters everything from a to z. In addition to that, you can consider taking out all your boardgames such as: Snake and Ladders, Monopoly, Poker chips, Playing cards and etc. 

2. Movie Listings. Consider yourself lying down the whole day. With nothing to do but stare blankly in the ceiling. Exploring the world of movies and entertainment. Downloading movie streaming applications, helps you to watch movies you missed in cinemas.

3. Music Streaming. With Spotify, you are most likely to download your favorite music, creating your own playlist and feeding your old soul with classic music. 

4. Next Trip. Cancelled plans? Rescheduled appointments? No worries, planning your future after this will be busier than ever. You’re gonna open all slots in your calendar and mark it down. Planning your next trip out of town? Consider your financial status and capabilities. If everything is stable and you have some extra. Spend the dime and save the rest. Remember, your excess is not saving, but saving is what you initially have.

5. Stay fit.Working out and eating healthy is a way of maintaining an optimal bodily health status. Feeling lazy? Sweating and running out of breath? Well, we need to move our butts out. Being healthy is our natural way in fighting sickness. Don’t forget to stay hydrated.

6. Sports and Action.Televised sports are catered by local networks. You can also watch replays on social media and video streaming apps. 

7.  Linguistics. As hard as it may seem, it can help you to ease boredomness. Believe it or not, learning a new language doesn’t make you on top of others, but rather embracing diversities in terms of their way of communicating. It can be useful too, especially when you have plans on travelling to countries with language barrier as a factor to consider. 

I have here 4 tips on what and why you should know their language.

Tips:

• Greetings and Pleasantries. You should know how to greet them in a polite manner.

• Communicating food. Whenever you are in a restaurant where language barrier is most likely to be encountered. You should know the basic that may help you and the person taking your order. 

• Directions. Familiarizing yourself with directions such as left, right, straight ahead and a lot more. This may help in taking you where you want to go.  

• Currency. The part wherein you know how they count and… their pricing. 

8. One-man entertainment. Netflix and Youtube is our place to be. Watching vlogs, stand-up comedians, concerts, fashion and music videos.

9. Tiktokerist. The term we use for people who uses the app, Tiktok. A group of creative, talented and artistic people who expresses their passion thru taking a video of themselves with a specific challenge and content.

10. Livestreaming. Having the guts of being a livestreamer? Entertaining your audience thru livestreaming. Expressing your own thoughts and catering it raw. No edits. No Filter. What app? 

• KUMU. It is a Filipino livestreaming app that provides unending entertainment from various artists and streamers with an aim to connect people all over the world. 

• UpLive Philippines. A new way to interact with people all around the world, you can actually earn money here. As long as you have the talent and the capability to entertain people. 

11. Friends. Keeping in touch with your friends via Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp, Viber and Telegram. Knowing what’s up and catching up. The feeling of being alone is nothing when it comes to connecting with your friends. These are the things you can do indoors. Note: Above mentioned are the things that are second best. Praying and having full devotion, wishing that this crisis will end is out topmost priority.