Quarantine Is the Best Time To Bring Your Ideas To Life
If you’re one of the thousands of people who have been asked to quarantine yourself during the Coronavirus outbreak, you’ve most likely just found yourself with a completely new way of life.
You’re not going out as much as you used to. Unless you need something from the store, you’re probably staying in. Restaurants are closed. Gyms, movie theaters, theme parks, and many non-essential stores aren’t open for business like they once were. In other words, you’re stuck.
But when it comes to your life and professional career, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. After all, we won’t always be quarantined. Eventually, we’re going to emerge from the other side and go back to our previous lives as normal.
There are two ways to use your newfound downtime brought about by your government. First, you can spend time watching TV or Internet movies or worry that your previous lifestyle has been put on hold, or you can use this time to transform your life, improve your skills, cultivate healthier habits.
Determined individuals can use this time away from movie theatres, restaurants, concerts, and sporting events to come up with some of their best ideas that would drastically improve their lives and position themselves to emerge from the quarantine better than when it started.
How to Use the Quarantine To Your Advantage
Use these ideas to improve your life, build new skills and reconnect with your family and friends during the quarantine.
Slow down and concentrate
If you want to make better decisions in your life, slowing down is one of the best ways to do just that. And, this quarantine is forcing a lot of us to decelerate our fast-paced life. Slowing down gives us time to process the world around us.
Reflect on our lives. Think more clearly and honestly about the decisions that we make in our lives and how those decisions affect our jobs, careers, financial stability, and, of course, our happiness. Don’t believe that slowing down means that we’re unproductive. It’s not true.
Boring of Quarantine: Meditation Reduce Stress
Meditation gives your brain a much-needed break, and it helps relieve stress and anxiety – both of which negatively affect our ability to think creatively.
Health experts also say that meditation promotes emotional health, enhances your self-awareness, improves your attention span, and might even reduce memory loss.
And, meditation has long been used by some of the most influential and well-known people in the world such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs among others.
Use Quarantine: Bring out Creative in you
Being creative is the spice of life, and this might be an opportunity to start letting your creative juices flow. For example, arts and crafts, like sewing or knitting, or woodworking.
Watercolor painting is a cheap and easy way to start dabbling with art. Or, practice a musical instrument of your choice – guitar, keyboard, flute, etc that you’ve always wanted to learn but never had the time.
Else you can start writing the book you’ve wanted to write. Or the blog you’ve been waiting to start.
Try new ideas or Re-start the forgotten ones
During your quarantine, take this opportunity to try new things, or start doing those things that your previous commute or work schedule prevented. For example, things like:
- Eating clean and nutritious
- Exercising regularly
- Reading, creating and learning
- Home improvements or repairs
- Starting that side project you always wanted to try
Whatever change you’re looking for, use this time to get started in that direction. This might include: Practicing a new skill, Taking online classes, Working with a friend on small business, or Grow closer with people you care about
Take the time to go back to fundamentals and grow closer with your family – which a busy schedule, jobs, and commutes can easily prevent. Learn more about them.
Do more activities inside the house as a family to build stronger bonds and more meaningful relationships. Also, have dinner together as a family. If things get boring, fight that monotony by trying new routines like going for walks, having a board-game or movie night, etc.
And, video chat with friends and extended family all over the world. Your quarantine gives you the opportunity to reconnect with friends whom you haven’t seen in years, and these connections can spark amazing new ideas and future goals.
Believe it or not, groups of people are building 100% remote social groups that are growing in popularity. For example, remote book clubs, knitting groups, or movie chats. If you’re so motivated, start one or see if your family might be interested in joining one.
Conclusion
Remember, while a quarantine will disrupt your daily routine, the opportunity can also be used to improve ourselves. Try new things. Reconnect with people and learn new skills to help us as we emerge once again back into society when things calm back down.
Be smart by slowing down. Try meditation. Or, start building your skills for a new career. Now’s the best time to create a New You.