Everyone in my life seems to be getting lost in social media rabbit holes, whether it’s doomscrolling or getting caught up in the never ending media news cycle, or seeing your social media friends engaging in routines that you haven’t been able to get to yet, here are 40 things that you can do instead of scrolling on your phone (in no particular order):
- Organize your bookshelf
- Do the dishes
- Attempt to read a book
- Go for a walk in your neighborhood
- Call a friend
- Change your bedsheets
- Water your plants
- Meditate
- Listen to music
- Gaze out the window
- Take up an online class
- Go for a run
- Cook yourself a nice meal
- Make a cup of coffee
- Schedule a coffee date with a friend
- Organize your bedside table
- Go through your closet and donate clothes
- Take out the trash
- Write a to-do list
- Write down a list of goals for the year
- Start a gratitude journal (they actually work!)
- Reply to pending emails
- Do the laundry
- Watch a TED talk
- Watch an episode of your favorite show
- Clean out your junk drawer (we all have one)
- Make a great playlist
- Do a digital “spring cleaning”
- Meditate (if it’s your thing)
- Put up frames in your apartment
- Feng Shui your bedroom
- Sweep the floor
- Buy a bouquet of flowers
- Journal and recall fond memories of your youth
- Clean out your medicine cabinet
- Run a bath
- Take a shower
- Sleep early
- Take your vitamins
- Get some rest