Feeling bored and losing meaning may be a sign that we are not sharing with the world around us properly, and sometimes those feelings are a voice telling us to try what we do but better, or try new things entirely.
Boredom can sweep us through even with a good job, or purposeful activities, that we may feel are easier or more difficult than we think.
And some people may sometimes resort to activities that make them feel better in the moment, but that do not provide meaning or a long-term challenge, such as watching TV or gorging on snacks, or even sleeping to escape those feelings.
Here are some steps that may help us overcome boredom:
Enjoy stillness
We are now feeding on leisure or business.
People no longer know what it means to just sit quietly.
We feel guilty when not doing something, because of the constant desire for sensory stimulation.
If boredom is a desire for sensory stimulation, then it reflects satisfaction and the experience of enjoyment of stillness and relaxation.
Find a beat
Routine helps organize the days, providing a sense of cohesion and security that enhances the meaning of life.
Boredom often appears with people when they retire, leave work, or with any change in their routine.
By finding a daily routine that is even simple, we can move past boredom.
Be more focused
Focus more on what contributes to achieving your main goals in life, and start implementing postponed projects, whether they are creative projects, practical or reading projects, or playing sports, or even renovating the house, and changing furniture places.
Tidying up rooms and libraries, wardrobes, and sorting computer contents are also among the most boring acts.
Turn boring chores into learning opportunities (German)
Planning and goal making
Planning and prioritizing works so that there are no old time gaps that make us feel bored.
It can be arranged by dividing large projects into smaller projects, which keeps you productive, instead of just being busy without a goal, because boredom often hides a problem, where you want to do a specific activity, but there is something that prevents you.
So find out what you really want to do, by asking yourself questions, with an honest answer:
Set a specific time for activities that you feel bored about, such as responding to letters or e-mail, rather than letting them cause continuous interruptions throughout the day.
Turn boring routines into learning opportunities, like listening to an audiobook or lecture while driving or daily activities.
Create a vision for your life and determine how everything you do contributes to enhancing or detracting from it.
Maybe some of the things that don't align with your vision are the same things that cause boredom.
After identifying low-priority activities, you can try to make them more meaningful, or even eliminate them altogether.
It is easy to indulge in multiple external goals that do not fulfill their promises of success or achievement, so focus should be placed on distant goals that fully improve the quality of life, along with work that provides material income.
Boredom is not the same as exhaustion, the former happens when you have abundance in one form of energy.
Such as finding yourself unable to get the work done, but at the same time not feeling physically tired.
An approach to boredom pushing should be sought, such as going out for exercise.
Not only can boredom be removed by external means, and it's not just about what you do, but it's also about how you do it.
Each of us must have his inner world, in which he can find what he likes, come up with new ideas, or dialogue with oneself, and plan for the future, all of which are ideas that can be explored inside the mind without any external stimulus.
So moments of boredom can be used to explore different possibilities within the mind, loosening the constraints a little, and accepting when resistance becomes pointless.