I just got a three-weeks leave from work and I realized I do not even have a mapped out plan for my short leave. I am someone who enjoys being in their own space. But since I’ll be spending the next three weeks at home doing nothing, I’d like to have ideas of nice activities I could engage myself in, both indoor and outdoor. However, not overly serious activities, just fun and beautiful activities to keep me busy through out my lone stay at home.
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I take my time to wander through my favorite store at at a very slow pace. I don’t have to look for anything in particular, I just take my time to look around at the retail eye candy and make a wish list for my self.
Take a Shopping Trip Alone
Dial down any shopping stress by taking the trip alone. Other people can slow you down or pressure you to hurry up, and you can end up missing out on the best clothes or deals.
Take a leisurely trip alone and take your time trying everything on: you are likely to have a great day and find something you love.
Finish That Project
If you are feeling proactive, head to a coffee shop and finish off anything you’ve been putting off. You will feel accomplished and proud as soon as you have finished.
Binge-watch a TV Show You Love
The best part about watching television alone is that you can watch whatever you want, no matter how shameful and embarrassing it is. Put on your comfiest clothes, get some snacks and put your feet up for hours of guilt-free viewing.
Try New Recipes
Cook a new dish you’ve been eyeing up; you don’t have guests to let down if it goes wrong, and if it goes right you can eat it all yourself. This is a fun way to hang out by yourself, and you may become a cooking pro in the process.
Explore Your Local Museum
You may be put off visiting your local museum due to bad school trips and annoying tour guides, but you may have a totally different opinion after you have visited alone. Museums are filled with interesting and fascinating objects. And you can take your time to appreciate the things you really enjoy – without a tour guide telling you to move on.
Body maintenance
Let’s face it, we all have times when we let our personal grooming slide a little, whatever our gender.
Life gets busy, and we have a million and one things to do. So, this is one golden time for you to find yourself kicking your heels, have a maintenance session.
Shave, wax, pluck, exfoliate, moisturize… do whatever it is you want or need to do. It will empower you and boost your confidence.
Learn a language
Okay, since you have good three weeks to yourself, you can commit to learning a new language. You start by finding a method that suits you and get started. Commit to spending a certain amount of time learning that new language from scratch, or refreshing your memory of one you’re already familiar with.
Start a workout program at home.
A basic workout program doesn’t need to involve an expensive gym membership, it just needs to involve personal initiative. After all, many of the most effective exercises like running, walking, sit-ups, prone lifts, push ups, jumping jacks and so on do not involve any exercise equipment at all. Before you get started, make sure you’re in good health.
I hope you find these tips helpful and most importantly fun to do;
Go to a random bar to have your favorite drink, talk to the bartender. Relax and enjoy the background music.
Travel. No need to cater to someone else’s agenda. Traveling alone, you get to make your own schedule.
Take a walk. The trees! The grass! The air! They are all whispering, “If you had brought Beth along she would have wanted to talk about her boyfriend and you would not be able to fully enjoy us.”
Make a list of all the people who were a positive influence on your life and write each of them a thank you letter. Think for a bit about all of the people who have inspired you and helped you along in your current life path. Make a list of all of these people – mine, for example, includes my high school English teacher, some relatives and friends, and a few college professors. Then pull out a notepad and a pen and write each of them a handwritten letter, reminding them of how they helped you out and thanking them for doing so. It’s a great way to get in touch with the people who helped shape your life, and it’s something you’ll feel genuinely good about for a long time (you probably haven’t even remembered them in years, that’s like an opportunity to appreciate them).
Learn some basic yoga poses. Yoga is a great way to relax and meditate while stretching the muscles of your body and getting a surprisingly intense workout at the same time. Basic yoga is extremely simple and feels really good – a stretching routine once a day feels really good to me.
Listen to a podcast. Podcasts are wonderful snippets of intelligent and engaging talks, where people pour out their hearts and ideas for you to hear (for free).
Tour your neighborhood on foot. Most neighborhoods have many interesting secrets and things to enjoy and observe on foot. Just head out of your front door and wander wherever your spirit takes you. You’ll likely find all sorts of interesting things, places you didn’t know about before, interesting landmarks, beautiful sights, and perhaps an interesting free thing to pick up along the way.
Listen to your favorite music up loud and let yourself dance to it. I love to turn the music up loud on occasion and bounce around to it (all in complete privacy, of course). Few things get me more pumped up than a really lively song and a bunch of moving around in rhythm to the music. I’m sure you have your favorites.
Visit the library. This is one of the best free things for an introvert to do. Your public library is a gigantic collection of free books, movies, music, magazines, and countless other things – all there for the borrowing. Plus, there’s usually a lot of activities there for the introvert, from film showings to recommended reading lists and community calendars. Stop by and see what things a library really has to offer.
Teach yourself to meditate. For stress relief and aid for overcoming tiredness, few things work better for me than a short period of meditation. The easiest technique is to just sit in a comfortable chair, close your eyes, and focus on nothing but breathing slowly for a while. Breathe in slowly, hold it for a bit, breathe out slowly. Over and over. I’ve been practicing meditation for at least 10 minutes a day, and the effects have been profound. You should try it too.
Enjoy your leave