40 Productive Ways to Distract Your Mind at Home

Feeling bored being stuck at home? Feeling overwhelmed with all of the news going on? Sick of sitting on the couch and binge watching TV?

A good way to cope is to find productive ways to distract your mind at home.

Here are 40 productive ways to distract your mind.

1. Send a donation to a food bank
2. Organize your closet
3. Get an adult coloring book
4. Clean out your car
5. Read a book
6. Journal
7. Make a vision board
8. Do some crafts
9. FaceTime friends and family
10. Clean the shower
11. Exercise at home
12. Listen to a podcast
13. Stretch
14. Have a spa day
15. Try your hand at quizzes on Sporcle.com
16. Get ahead on birthday gifts for friends and family
17. Shave your legs
18. Earn money for filling out surveys using Swagbucks
19. Learn a new hobby (Like knitting)
20. Learn a language
21. Create a budget for yourself
22. Decorate your apartment
23. Make some art
24. Learn a new skill or software to put on your resume
25. Set up your desk to work at home
26. Reignite an abandoned DIY project
27. Scrapbook
28. Create a bucket list
29. Do your taxes
30. Send someone you’ve lost touch with a text
31. Practice an instrument
32. Teach a pet a new trick
33. Clean out your purse
34. Wash your sheets
35. Sell clothes you don’t want on Poshmark
36. Update your LinkedIn profile
37. Try a new healthy recipe
38. Watch a documentary
39. Do a puzzle
40. Create a new Spotify playlist

Those are the 40 productive ways to distract your mind at home.

Self care can look like many different things.

And part of self care definitely means taking care of your mind and realizing that sometimes it is healthier to find a productive way to distract yourself rather than sitting home alone just thinking and worrying about what’s happening in the news.

Comment below with your favorite thing to do at home 🙂

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