Things to do when you have a complete day off
I am alone home. No responsibility, job or family. I feel, I can fly. Let’s discuss how you can live a live-ly day, when you are home alone?
1 — Eat the Frog
Because these are the starting days of your leave, you are going to find ample amount of time to procrastinate. Things you wanted to do earlier, while you were dodging bullets at your job, are now here, waiting for your command to get done-d. You thought, “off days” will make it easier for you to pick a fork and turn wise eat away these goals? You were wrong. You are going to face a full blown attack of procrastination. It is going to make you lazy, feel stupid and look weird. You will need to kill this or eat this frog the first thing in your day — if you want to survive your days on leave.
The right way to fix it is “eat the frog” approach. You wake up early in the morning. You cherry pick one most gruesome task [that leads to your dream goal]. You eat this frog the first. If you had two frogs to eat today. Eat the bigger one first. You do not plan ahead; what frogs you will eat tomorrow or what frogs you plan to eat in this month. Let your instincts decide on which frog to eat, every day in the morning.
Eat the frog approach has helped me keep my productive streak alive.
Ok.. roll on to the next thing you can do.
2 — Have a sweet interaction
You did a bulky activity, the frog eating, even on your leave?
It was needed to keep you feeling fulfilled. Next you can do a simple / relatively easier task. Talk to someone on your relatively high priority agenda on a phone call. We have phones, so I suggest resort to phone call session instead of real life physical pro-longed not fun meetings.
You can speak your heart out about the issue at hand. You can make your loved ones laugh with your stupid jokes. You can fight with a distant cousin. You can listen to somebody in trouble. Or you can throw a coin [any topic] in the air and let the discussion roll itself.
3 — Watch a good movie
You are tired. Half the day is over. You need to feel lighter, relieved and calm. You should put your last night’s pizza in oven, fill your cup with Coke and decide on a good title to watch.
Create good ambience around it. Put your phone on airplane mode. Lock all the noise outside. Sit, watch, eat and feel lively with your favourite comedian or a bold science-fiction-cum-love story.
My favourite titles in fiction-cum-love-stories category are
- Adjustment Bureau
- Upside Down
- Runaway Jury
- Non Fiction · How do you know [available on Netflix]
Concluding the Day
I think most part of your day is over. You are left with few hours to eat, chit chat, ponder over your yesterday and fork your future tasks.
The key is — do the the bulky task first thing in the morning. Bulky; something that keeps you accountable or tells you, you have moved few steps ahead on your growth graph. Keep it under an hour, if you do not want to overload yourself, but under no circumstances, avoid the frog.
Your day is done. You did a good job. You can take a good nap. For that, make sure you sleep maximum by 10 O’Clock at night. Any time after this deadline, can prove unhealthy and weird for you the next day.
