Hobbies that you can do while resting

It seems that the market is currently going down, is there any FUD? At this point in time, the best time to do is to ignore the market and forget it temporarily by spending your time with a productive rest.

In our last blog, we discussed about “rest is a must” and this is the best time to do it to forget the depressive state of the market by doing your hobbies productively. Is it possible to rest while being productive?

I bet most of us have a hobby that we usually do in our free time, is it gaming? Well if you love gaming you should choose the game that is more productive. They said that being productive is not a requirement, in fact, the people who are workaholic don't want to rest because they are thinking that their day isn't productive and just a waste of time. Little did they know that there are things that they can do to make them productive and rest at the same time.

Playing online games. Most of the people will think that they are wasting their time by playing. Well, in some instances it is a yes. But you can do it productively by playing games strategically and significantly. How?

Let us take a look on financial view, full time streamers and gamers took gaming as their job. As a result, they are enjoying their passion, hobby and rest at the same time. On top of that, they are earning money by doing these hobbies.

Nevertheless don't forget that not everyone can be a streamer, why? It is because it's not your passion, you are just looking financially. Remember, you cannot force something to become your passion. Choose the hobby and job that you can do passionately.

Rubik's cube. Not bragging but I can solve some kind of Rubik's cube such as the normal one which is 3x3. I can also solve 4x4, megaminx, mirror cube, gear cube and et cetera. I used to play this cube in our school, in fact, they called me before as a master without knowing that I'm a noob and have a slow hands compared to professional.

This toy and hobby is not a waste of time because you are gaining knowledge on how to solve it in a matter of time. You are boosting your memory—to memorize every moves to solve it easily, you are improving your strategic skills—by doing the things that you think is right and to solve it quickly, you can also improve your eyesight—by looking on the colors that you need to solve first.

See? There's a lot of benefits in playing this game. Who knows that you can impress your love ones by playing it, right? You can click this to learn the 5 benefits of learning how to solve Rubik's cube.

Reading books. We have this friend who always love reading books even it is a virtual books like pdf, document, epub or maybe a traditional printed books. In my own opinion, reading books or any other medium is the only thing that has no disadvantage.

You know, they said that everything has disadvantage but when it comes to books, it's no disadvantage. In my own perspective only. Unless you became addicted and obsessed to the point that you are not sleeping anymore just to read a book.

There's a lot of advantages in reading books like it can improve your vocabulary—by knowing new words in the book, it is better if you will look the meaning of it in the dictionary and learn a new word, it can hep you to improve your grammar—I can't fluently speak and write in English but reading a book helped me to improve it.

Interact with your friends. We tend to have a busy day, almost everyday to the point that we cannot interact to our friends and family. We can do it by spending our time with them even 2-3 hours everyday of watching a movie, playing games, small talks and sharing.

In your circle of friends and family, the communication means a lot. Intearcting with them is necessary, a simple asking of “how are you” can change their mood and improve your relationship with them.

It has a lot of advantage like improving your social skills—by Intearcting with them, you are giving yourself an opportunity to express yourself, it can stronger your bond with them—by small talks and sharing, you are removing the borders around them and be a transparent to them. Let them know what you feel, it can help to your mental health.

Conclusion

As what we have said on the last blog, rest is not a waste of time. In fact, it can help us individually to improve ourselves and our relationship with other people.

Also, you can still do it productively by doing the things that we discussed above. Rest is not all about doing nothing, it is about doing the things that you enjoyed.

Published: July 20, 2021