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101 Things To Do, When There is Nothing to Do

July 16, 2020 18 Comments

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During the Coronavirus lockdown, it seems many of us have plenty of time in hand. No commuting to and from the workplace. Not many social gatherings. We often feel we have nothing to do. In reality if we put our brains, we get ideas. There are so many things around us, needing our attention!

Often I feel like I have nothing to do. So I end up surfing the net or playing games on my cellphone.

But there is so much you can do in your free time.

What to Do when nothing to do

This article might make your free time pass-by faster while you achieve some satisfaction out of it.

Let me ask you, have you completed all the tasks for the day, or are you having a day off?

Does your company allow you a free afternoon every week or are you just having a holiday?

The things you do during this time when there is nothing to do could just bring change to your life, organization, or even your family. You need not do anything extravagant or anything that will tire you. Just a simple act that can help others and make you better is something worthwhile.

Believe me, you’ll feel happy if you accomplish any of these things. There can be thousand more activities let this article help you find those on your own.

It is about love, always love. 
Do everything with love. 
Do what you love to do.

101 things to do, when there is nothing to do

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2)    Jot down some new ideas which can be about your growth or about any new project you can do at your home, a new side hustle, a book to read, or a new game to play with your child.

3)    Surf the internet and gain knowledge about things. Read online magazines

4)    Play with your kids, spend quality time with them. As a parent, this is the best gift you can give to them

5)    Write a thank-you note to someone who helped you. Send it via email, SMS, or letter.

6)   Open YouTube and watch the latest hit videos. In my case, I watch Bollywood movie songs on YouTube often.

7)   Get online and check how many people have responded to your blog.

8)   Open a new bank account online and earn a promotional bonus.

9)   Play your favorite music album and relax with it. A satisfied soul can be very productive later on.

10) Turn on food channel and cook the dish they are showing on TV.

11)  Write a poem about your last springs experience and why you want to get the best out of this summer.

12)  Read a book, try to finish a chapter. Or read the newspaper. Your goal is to learn something new.

13)  Post an interesting event or a joke on your Facebook wall. You can take pictures of plants, people, flowers with your smartphone and post it as well

14)  Visit your financial consultant to inquire about the best way to invest your new company profitability.

15)  Consider taking some time out walking together with your partner. 

16)  Consider taking an online IQ test to gauge your level

17)  Take online marketing paid surveys and earn some extra cash.

18)  Dial-up an old friend you haven’t spoken to for years.

19) You can stretch your back to prevent lower back pain.

20)  Help your partner in managing some of the domestic chores.

21)  Check the results of the favorite team in the magazine or internet

22)  Write the next chapter of your novel and think of how to make it the best in the market after publishing.

23)  Plant some trees in the backyard and give it your name

24)  Feed birds that come perching in a nearby tree

25)  Build your dogs kennel  using new dimensions

26)  Start cooking something you love and haven’t eaten for a while.

27)  Help your wife wash some dishes and prepare the next meal (in my case she won’t let me cook because I make a mess in the kitchen every time I cook)

28)  Practice some simple yoga routines. Take help from youtube videos

29)  Mow your lawn and water the plants. Weed out your garden/patio

30)  Pray together with your family, visit church or temple.

31)  Clean something, dust corner areas in your home, wipe the floors, arrange the cabinets.

32)  Make as many paper planes and fly them from the balcony

33)  Go to a movie hall and watch a movie alone with a jumbo popcorn to munch on. This will form a forever memory.

34)  Have a chat with your friend/wife on the new methods of improving your communication and time efficiency

35)  Tend to your lawn outside your office or house.

36)  Go through the company financial report again to get more details about company performance.

37)  Clip your nails, groom yourself. 

38)  Compete in mental mathematical calculations, especially multiplication with your partner or child.

39)  Get your child to recite and teach you one of the songs they were taught by the teacher

40)  Access the latest from your online newspaper copy.

41)  Get into your competitor’s website and look at the new products that have been invented.

42)  Compare the performance of your product with those of competitors.

43)  Tell fiction story out of the blues and see how you can create and recite at the same time

44)  Take some coffee with your production manager and listen to his new change management ideology.

45)  Take some time with one or several employees to establish whether the new management motivation is working.

46)  Look and count vehicles through your window

47)  Count the number of people you see from your balcony

48)  Head down to a plunge bath for additional relaxation.

49)  Join a youth group discussion on new investments and the future of multinationals

50)  Consider preparing your tea as opposed to order if from the café

51)  Try painting using crayons. Consider competing with your child

52)  Remember and write the names of all your classmates in college. reunite with them- call up, send text, etc.

53)  Try to remember the names of managers for all the companies that you know

54)  Take a stroll to wind up after a busy working schedule

55)  Collect food to distribute to the poor

56)  Donate blood to the local health center

57)  Take a shower if it is too hot to feel more refreshed

58)  Visit the new museum’s section and see what new has been presented.

59)  Make your family budget for the month. Or check your last month’s spending and see if there’s anything unusual there. 

60)  Consider visiting a dentist to have your teeth checked

61)  Take your pet for a checkup

62)  Visit an animal orphanage with your children

63)  Reach the credit rating company to find out your score and credit report.

64)  Get your bank account statements and look at your cash flow. Is your finances cash flow positive?

65)  Move to the highest point of the tallest building using the elevator and get back to the ground floor

66)  Check your weight, if you gained some then write a plan target date and ways to go back to the previous number.

67)   Call your financial advisor and enquire how to open a new business.

68)  Go window shopping to identify the more cost-effective shopping mall

69)  Drive to several animal health centers with a view of establishing the one with better facilities and services offered at lower rates

70)  Take your bicycle and ride to the neighborhood

71)  Jog or even mountain climb with a friend

72)  Go sports hunting for legalized animals such as fish

73)  Start learning a new language. There are many free online resources to get you started.

74)  Volunteer to assist a local school sports team

75)  Follow the progress of a building coming up in your compound

76)  Setup a zoom meeting with your best friends. 

77)  Record a song with your family, hare it on social media.

78)  Go and take photographs of outside or in the nearby tree

79)  Count the number and types of birds you get in the bush

80)  Check the new online courses that one can take while still working

81)  Go out for a drive. Just go a few miles and come back. Listen to music and relax. Pick some less crowded roads. Set your distance based on the time you have.

82)  Especially if you’re alone and your day was bad, cry out loud. This will help you get back positive energy. Kids do it all the time and come back more positive after every such episode.

83)  Discuss with your online trainer about the subject you performed poorly in the last class.

84)  Look at the recent merger of your competitor with another company.

85)  Try to learn a new aspect of computers. Search for phrases like “10 hidden tricks in Mac” or “10 keyboard shortcuts in windows computer” on YouTube. You’ll be surprised by the result.

86)  Check the market trend for local and international products and services. This could inform you on how to design recommendations about your company products

87)  Look at changes in population trends both locally and internationally about your company products effectiveness

88)  Write something, maybe a line of a poem, a paragraph of a news story. How your day went or what you want to achieve tomorrow. There are so many things to write about.

89)  Make some home crafts using clay. Compete who makes the best between you and your child

90)  Remove your bedroom items and fumigate the room

91)  Remove the cobwebs from the house outside

92)  Clean the gutter all around the house

93)  Make paper toys with your child.

94)  Go sports fishing with your child

95)  Establish the rate of internet access especially in the emerging markets

96)  Play with your pet

To a Financially Stable Early Retirement

97)  Do some political discussions with your friends. Time flies when a group of people talk about politics.

98)  Take some leave and think about work effectiveness in the next five years. Are you lagging behind others? What’s the reason. Starting noting down for further analysis.

 

99)  Men love fishing, even if you’re a woman, you can try a hand at fishing. Take the fishing gear, buy some baits and start fishing.

100)  Ask your child to write the names of all the classmates. Then add a couple of sentences for each of them. Then add their hobbies, positive aspects, etc.

101)   Start drinking! 🙂 You have nothing to do, then why not relax with a wine or a beer? When intoxicated we often don’t think straight. You’ll never feel you have nothing to do.

One Bonus thing to do!

102)  go to OCAAT archive and read the past posts, you’ll not be disappointed

If you think you can find various other time pass activities. If you want to enjoy every moment of your life or want to leave a mark behind, you’ll never be in a situation where you have nothing to do.

Do share how you liked the post and what is your favorite activity that you do when there is absolutely nothing worth doing.

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Comments

  1. The College Investor says

    July 10, 2013 at 1:00 PM

    my favorite activities when there is nothing to do is to do something recreational yet educational with my child.

    Reply
  2. Martin says

    July 10, 2013 at 11:04 PM

    When I get free time or vacation and I get into laziness I am never able to finish any task I originally planned. I had last week Friday off and I wanted to finish some of my projects for which I had no time during regular business days and nope, I wasn’t able to kick myself into even thinking about it… Your list is impressive. Sometimes I just write notes and ideas for my next articles or even write them if I have signal or internet connection available. On board of a plane I just write notes or offline text or just watch movies I downloaded before.

    Reply
  3. [email protected] says

    July 11, 2013 at 4:55 AM

    I would love to be able to do #100 but I don’t have a home safe to put my cash in. I am making it a priority to obtain a safe and put some cash in it so that I can count it when I am bored. I would prefer the Scrooge McDuck money dive but I guess a small home safe will have to do.

    Reply
  4. Management Training says

    July 11, 2013 at 12:06 PM

    I prefer to do blogging and reading new material in the field of technology and management as I have deep interest in both of them. Gossiping with friends over phone is another activity that I like doing, when I have nothing to do.

    Reply
  5. Anton Ivanov says

    July 11, 2013 at 6:47 PM

    In my free time I like getting out of the house, exploring the outdoors and going to the gym. Most of the time I’m so busy, I can’t even imagine how some people find themselves with nothing to do!

    Reply
  6. Herbert says

    July 12, 2013 at 7:48 AM

    When there is nothing to do I try to catch up with a round of golf and beat my previous record or play video games with my son. Unlike those parents who get into the daily rut and miss out on the life’s most important things, I feel blessed to be able to see my son grow.

    Reply
  7. JP @ cashsnail.com says

    July 12, 2013 at 10:15 AM

    Whenever I have a bit of free time, I always start by reading a book.
    But a very good use of time if you are stranded in a airport/train station or simply being in waiting room is to have some short podcast ready to listen.

    Reply
  8. Shobir says

    September 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM

    This is a fantastic list, I too hate wasting time and there are moments when I feel like I have nothing to do and get the feeling of taking things easy and relaxing. It’s at those moments I think really hard about problems that I might face in the future and plan on how to deal with them, I love thinking about contingencies and avoiding things that might potentially mess up your life. Seriously! this is a great thought provoking article. Thanks for Sharing.

    Reply
  9. Imran says

    September 30, 2013 at 9:39 AM

    I particularly like number 55, collecting food for the poor. This has always been on my list regardless of whether I was doing well in life or doing badly. I think helping people helps you to help yourself, I’m not sure if that makes sense. This is a really good post about keeping lists of things to do when you’ve done everything else, time is a precious commodity and it’s important not to waste it.. Thanks for sharing, great post.

    Reply
  10. Ver says

    August 8, 2018 at 9:48 AM

    Why not mention “drinking a beer or two”

    Reply
    • SB says

      August 8, 2018 at 10:20 PM

      yep, we think alike 🙂

      Reply
  11. Allison says

    July 14, 2020 at 6:45 PM

    This list is very exclusive to what the writers lifestyle is like

    Reply
  12. Ibrahim Malik says

    July 21, 2020 at 1:23 AM

    I will read magazines.

    Reply
  13. golaunche says

    July 21, 2020 at 1:03 PM

    In my free time, I like getting out of the house and helping needy people, exploring the outdoors, and going to outing with family and spend time with them. Most of the time I’m so busy, I can’t even imagine how some people find themselves with nothing to do!

    Reply
  14. Steve says

    July 23, 2020 at 5:13 AM

    Very helpful post. In my free time I read a book and listing music. I think you do something make you feel happy and relax and thank you for posting this article.

    Reply
  15. Eternal Life Secrets says

    July 23, 2020 at 8:40 AM

    Great things to do to ease your boredom.
    Boredom can feel impossible to escape. This is particularly true now, when many of us are stuck indoors due to social-distancing efforts necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19.
    Thanks for sharing, great post.

    Reply
  16. carol says

    July 23, 2020 at 12:22 PM

    wow this is amazing you have soo many ideas great post

    Reply
  17. H. Smith says

    August 3, 2020 at 1:10 AM

    What an amazing list of spending time with some proudctive results. Talking about me, I spend most of my time with my family and friends. Besides, yoga, reading books and playing with my pet is what I loved doing most.

    Reply

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