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A Productive Waste Of Time

imme · 2018-01-06 19:04:24

I oftentimes struggle to find productive ways of wasting my time. It is easy to fall into the realm of 'bread and circuses'. Too much of my free time is taken up or given over to internet, television among other things. Now that the new year is upon me I will look for productive ways to waste my time. Obviously the new…

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#32 08-01-2018 1:05pm
DaeryssaOne

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Malayalam wrote: »

Crochet.

Time passes, and at the end you have fantastic things..sometimes/ usually.
Here..this is a pattern I followed last year. Guaranteed to be a productive waste of time. You can listen to podcasts or youtube documentaries at the same time to be doubly productive and the resulting item is flipping awesome.
Scroll down for part 1 to start, choose your own colours and nice wool, agus ar aghaidh leat ansin....
http://www.crystalsandcrochet.com/crochet/category/mandala-madness/

This thread has inspired me to order a 'crochet for beginners' kit just now, need something to occupy my hands since quitting smoking and also tend to feel guilty if I'm just sitting in front of the tv all evening, figure this should hopefully be a nice distraction!

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#33 08-01-2018 1:09pm
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Take a Udemy course
Practice something for x minutes a day
Crosswords

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#34 08-01-2018 3:56pm
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I've bought a clip on pedometer thingy, and my aim is 10,000 steps a day. Flipping heck, it uses up a fair bit of time to get to that number. I hope it is productive!!

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#35 08-01-2018 4:05pm
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#36 08-01-2018 4:17pm
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imme wrote: »

I oftentimes struggle to find productive ways of wasting my time.

Odd that I struggle to reduce the number of such things I do. Though I am determined 2018 is to be the year where I achieve it.

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