1. Watch
television less. Too much of the tube feeds boredom and restlessness. Set aside
evenings away from the television set to go to a movie, play tennis or be with
friends.
2. Take a
break from your routine. Hire a baby-sitter, for example, and go lunch with
friends of yours – or go shopping for bargains. Go out to dinner with your
husband.
3. Keep in
touch with your friends and relatives. Everybody needs human contact. Invite a
neighbor or yours for coffee, or call up a friend whom you haven’t recently
heard from.
4. At work,
find friends among co-workers and give yourself brakes to chat with them – or invite
them to your home for dinner.
5. If you
enjoy reading, read more. You’ll find new attitude and new possibilities for
your life.
6. Where
possible, change your routine. Do your Thursday chores on Wednesday – and vice
versa – and while you’re busy at your tasks, listen to music.
7. Give
yourself a “private hour” each day to do only what you want – read, re-do your
hair, polish your nails or just sit quietly and think.
8. Try to
see the funny side of life. Laughter is the best tonic for boredom. The more
you laugh, the less bored you’ll be.
9. Upset or
change your routine. A leading cause of boredom is sticking to a needlessly
humdrum behavior or work pattern. The very routine that promotes comfort and
saves you time, effort and money also promotes boredom. Many women allow routine
to become their master, instead of their slave. If you go to the market at
seven in the morning, why not do it at ten? Let house stay dirty and untidy for
one day and go out to see a movie or visit a friend. Make a change – even if it
is only the way you comb you hair.
10. Vary our
home setting. A home should have an occasional face-lifting and this can be
done without any cost. Change the position of the chairs. If you have curtains
at the windows, remove them and use plants instead. If you have a porch, serve
meals there instead of in the dining room or kitchen.
11. Change
your recreation. Recreation or a hobby should be something like to do, not
something you fell you ought to do because your husband or hour children or
some other people like it.
12. Approach
your job creatively. Repetitious chores are not necessarily boring if you keep
your mind active while engaged in them. Thus, while you are cleaning and
dusting, devise ways and means to do the work better or shorten the time in
doing them. We are being creative when we discover something new to us.
13. Watch
your appearance. Pride in their personal appearance saves many women form
boredom. Keep yourself attractive with a new hair-do (which can create the
greatest change in a woman’s appearance), by being always neat and tidy even in
old clothes, by doing your best to keep from becoming fat.
14. Relax –
don’t be tense. When you are bored, you tendency is to get away from what bores
you and unable to do this, you become tense. For example: you have to do the
laundry and try to postpone it but you think of the consequences when you fail
to wash and iron your husband’s work clothes and the children school clothes,
so you force yourself to do the chores. You are tense while working, so you do
the job badly or do it in a longer time. Why not just relax and take it easy?
15. Have
more family fun. Most mothers who are bored by the task of caring for their
small children try to get away from them. The solution is to include children
in you fun. Take the baby along when you visit neighbors or relatives. Ask your
husband and your children to help you with the household chores. Go out as a
family, even if it is only to walk down the street.
16.
Cultivate new friendships. You can’t be bored if you are generally interested
in other people. When you go to the market, talk with the vendors you do not
know. You may “know” all the people in your small town or in your immediate
neighborhood, but you do not know what they like or dislike, what they think of
this or that. Conversing with them may mean really know them.
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Special Credit
to: Julio F. Silverio
