How I Conduct My Day

We are born into this world and then we march towards the inevitability of death. It can be in 50 years time or within the next minute, and in that time span, we do things to keep ourselves busy, engaged, entertained. Boredom is evil and it lurks under your bed; it manifests itself in your phone and perhaps its in the fast food you voraciously consume. What is it doing exactly?

It's keeping you from doing anything. It's keeping you from being productive.

During my past two years, being locked up in my cosy little apartment, I've come to realize that I have been fighting a demon in a losing game. That demon is boredom.

It's time to fight back! And i have taken steps. To counteract boredom, I need to be productive. We all have goals in our life. An ambition we are striving for. A passion we are distracted with, but boredom is there to snatch all that away from you. A candle will burn as long as there is wax to fuel the heat. Plenty of time. But a sudden wind will snuff it out. That's boredom.

So how did I beat boredom,

1. Organize

This is key and this is important. Even if you are not that type, a little bit of organizing is worth your precious time. The day before, write down a to-do list of things that you will do the next day. Start with the simple stuff. Doing laundry, Buying groceries, Taking out the garbage etc. Keep this list in front of your desk, or on your laptop or your bedside table. Make sure the list is on a place where you will set your eyes on the next day. Religiously follow it the next day.

Make sure to start from the simplest tasks! Believe me, the relief of completing simple tasks is so satisfying and you feel like challenging yourself to proceed to the next stage of tasks. That's how you start. Take the kindergarten step and work your way to the top.

2. Compartmentalization

Quite the mouthful but extremely important. You have no idea how easy life can be if you are willing to break down a task into multiple smaller ones and completing them one by one. If you are a student and you are doing a paper. Break down that task. If the paper is due in 2 months then sit down and think.....You'll research for the first week, then round 2 research on the second week, then come up with a topic within the next 3 days...(notice how I'm specifying? Yes do that. Be specific) and then working on the introduction within the next 5 days and it goes on until you have the whole paper ready a day before the due date. This is how you beat procrastination. Every University students' nightmare.

So if you have a big task, don't you dare write it on your to-do list without breaking it down to smaller tasks first. You don't swallow a bowl of cereal in one go. You have it spoon by spoon.

3. Schedule/Time table

Ah yes, so my best friend willingly offered me a mini whiteboard with the days of a month on it. It includes a white board marker and an eraser to add and remove dates of a month. So on a new month I fill in all the days and then take colour coded post it notes and write important stuff on it and paste it on the corresponding date on the whiteboard. It's a colourful little thing when you do it. It's fancy and you keep that next to your to-do list on your work desk or wherever it is that you always set your eyes on everyday

Colour coding helps a lot! I have colours for the different courses i take in University but you can have colours for different things. Maybe one for your job, another for your other job, another for household things and another for your pet maybe or side hustle.

These three things are now keeping my day to day life organized. Start from this and then you fill up your day with things to do. Have a routine and stick to it. Watch your favourite movie/show on Netflix. I know you love a good show but please don't binge watch. An episode a day is best. Make sure to savour it.

You don't have to wake up early morning and go to bed early. You may wake up late and go to be late. That's fine. As long as you have 8 hours of sleep. That is important. Ditch your Pepsi or Coke for a full glass of water. Add lemon to it. Make sure to hydrate yourself. You're running a factory and you need to fuel it everyday. No one said life is easy. You will have a bad day but make sure you get up from that. You will have great days and make sure to savour them because they won't last either.

Like i said, life is a tragic march towards death, nothing else. We are struggling to find some meaning in it. We are definitely not going to find that if we are bored to death.