2-min guide to not ever get bored
No matter what I do or how frequently I change projects, I get bored, way frequently. While earlier I had no solid way to deal with the "boredom", I think, I now have a good working strategy for this.
As soon as I don't feel like working, or start procrastinating:
- Instead of forcing myself to still keep working, I immediately stop working on whatever I was working on. Bascially, I take a break.
- During the break, I would take a long walk or watch a movie and not think about the work at all.
- After the break, I scroll social media (mostly X), watch YouTube, and play latest AI tools on my laptop.
- While "playing", sometimes, I get a cool app idea to build, a book suggestion, or some other interesting projects that I can explore or work on.
- Slowly, I start coming back to my work mode and would eventually open the old and priority projects I was working on ealier and try to finish them.
And that's it – that's my way of dealing with boredom.
I understand that above points are too personal and you may not understand them properly, so let me further simplify the steps:
- Stop working as soon as you get bored.
- Do something else for a while.
- Work on other new or existing projects.
- Slowly move to the priority project when you feel like it.
And that's my 2 minutes.