We thought it prudent during this time of ambiguity to share a list of some of the simple things that could help relieve stress and promote positive vibes. Stay well and let us know if you need anything.
In no particular order:
- Read a book
- Listen to music
- Clean your desk
- Deep clean your house
- Call your clients
- Meditate
- Sing
- Write
- Stretch
- Do a puzzle
- Learn a new language
- Play an instrument. Don’t know how? YouTube lessons!
- Nap (Naps are very under-rated)
- Cook
- Bake
- Memorize Hamlet’s soliloquy
- Send five handwritten notes a day
- Listen to a podcast
- Start your own podcast
- Learn to play chess
- Read a classic literary work
- Paint
- Draw
- Make an Amazon wish list
- Call your mother
- Watch a movie with subtitles
- Write a poem
- Write a song
- Write a haiku
- Make pasta by hand
- Toss playing cards into a hat
- Learn to whistle
- Give your food delivery server a 100 percent tip
- Make and share Spotify playlists.
- Listen to an artist way outside your usual genre
- Reach out to your neighbor
- Play a full game of Monopoly or Risk. Without tipping the board over
- Make a Google Map of all the places you’ve traveled
- Organize your computer files
- Write letters to friends and family
- Write a letter to “Any Resident,” and send it to a local nursing or assisted living center
- Show your partner that you love him or her
- Wash your hands
- Paint your nails. Yes, guys too. No one will see you
- Learn to sew
- Vacuum
- Understand that the cat is 19, old and a little senile. Love her like she’s loved you
- See if you can make a list of 100 things. Any topic. It’s not easy!
- Turn off your phone for 24 hours.
- Call someone you haven’t talked to in awhile
- Watch Godfather and Godfather: Part II back-to-back. Skip Godfather: Part III
- Turn that clothes rack back into a treadmill or stationary bike
- Binge-watch a new series
- Don’t watch the stock market
- Be nice
- Plant a window herb garden
- Change your wifi network name to “Beers not viruses.”
- Research your family tree
- Order take-out from a local restaurant
- Read The Stand, watch Contagion. Remember, they are fiction
- Build a fort with chairs and blankets
- Organize your photos
- Change your air filters
- Take belly-dancing lessons on YouTube
- Learn a magic trick
- Clear out your email and organize
- Teach yourself origami
- Keep a positive attitude
- Buy a gift card from a small business
- Take deep, cleansing breaths. In through the nose, out through the mouth
- Make your own hand sanitizer
- Eat your vegetables
- Tax Day is still April 15. Deal with it
- Give to a food bank
- Donate to your favorite charity
- Reach out to someone less fortunate
- Offer to help
- Color your hair
- Talk to your kids
- Play with your kids
- Read to your kids
- Just be with your kids
- Grow a beard
- Shave your head!
- Stop shaving your legs
- Take a bubble bath
- Drink wine by the box
- Take a bubble bath while drinking boxed wine
- That junk drawer? Fix it
- Go through your closet. Send anything you haven’t worn in a year to a charity
- Check the Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization websites
- Ignore the conspiracy theorists
- Vote
- Wash your hands, again
- Do yoga, right there on the living room floor
- Show someone how to use Zoom, GoToMeeting and other virtual solutions
- Detail your car
- Teach your old dog a new trick
- Be kind
- Love more
- Dance and sing like nobody’s watching
List courtesy of Jay Thompson, a real estate veteran and retiree in Seattle, via Inman News.