Productive Things To At Home To Stay Active: Stay Fit

Back to their pre-pandemic life. “Behaviors take time to implement and adopt. They also take time to un-adopt,” says Abraar Karan, an internal medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Remember, it’s not an on and off switch.”

If you’re still spending more time than usual at home, we’ve compiled 100 suggestions to help make it as interesting – and perhaps even as productive – as possible.

1. Complete a puzzle: The more pieces the better! Feeling extra saucy? Take on a Rubik’s Cube. More of a word person? Crossword puzzle!
2. Start a journal or blog. Sure, it can be about the pandemic, but it could also be about a specific interest from chess to coronavirus infections in the U.S. are dropping and 50% of American adults have been fully vaccinated, according to new data. This means many are stepping out for the first time in a long time. Concerts and sporting events are returning and airport traffic is picking up with eager travelers.

New CDC guidelines advise that vaccinated adults can ditch their masks and stop social distancing outdoors and in most indoor settings. We can’t quite call the pandemic over. There are still active infections around the world and currently no vaccine for children younger than 12 years old. And some Americans still feel unsure about getting back out there.

A recent survey by the American Psychological Association found 46% said they don’t feel comfortable going cheese.

3. If it won’t bother your neighbors: Dust off that old instrument and practice.
4. Text all your exes just in case you have one more thing you wanted to get off your chest.
5. Write poetry. Perhaps you can craft a haiku, or something without a specific structure. Just try it!
6. Watch all the really long movies you’ve avoided until now.
7. Download Duolingo, or a similar app, and teach yourself a foreign language.