{"id":441,"date":"2019-07-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/?p=441"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:36:53","slug":"what-is-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/what-is-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Boredom?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m sitting at my desk at my 8-5 job, looking through Facebook and LinkedIn for the hundredth time today, and I feel my eyelids go lower, my body starts to relax and the next thing I know, I am jerked back to the living because I almost fall out of my chair! The chair is set at counter\/bar stool height, so falling would most definitely hurt.  I’m glad I woke up before that happened!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, why did I doze to begin with? What is causing my boredom to the point of falling to sleep?  After a short Google search, I found that Wikipedia.com<\/a> had the best definition of the word Boredom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“an emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in his or her surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious.”<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is exactly what I am feeling at the moment, which peaked my interest. So after another Google search to find out where the word came from, I landed on this article by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie on Smithsonian.com: “The History of Boredom.”<\/a>\u00a0 The article was actually quite interesting, causing my boredom to dissipate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After noticing that I was no longer board, I perform yet another Google search to find ways to keep from being bored.  Some of the tips I found were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Plan ahead – knowing what needs to be done and filling holes in your day will leave no time to be bored.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Prioritize your tasks – by working on the most urgent tasks, you will stay engaged and present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Put quality first – don’t just rush through tasks to get them done. Take your time and you’ll have less time to be bored.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Socialize – talking to others helps inspire your imagination, which is a key ingredient to keeping boredom at bay.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Learn something new – engaging in learning something you are truly interested in keeps you from being bored.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Work toward some goals, big or small – concentrating on a goal keeps your mind active.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Meditate – I admit this is kinda hard if you’re already sleepy due to boredom, but it might help some people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In my case, I know the reason I am bored is because I am no longer motivated to go above and beyond at my job.  I have only a few responsibilities that I can do in my sleep (pun intended!) and there’s no reason for me to do more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    So, how do I get out of this rut I’m in?  I have a plan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Continue to build my business<\/a> as a side hustle until I have enough money saved for 3 months of expenses<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Request that my hours be reduced from 40 to 30 hours per week, which will allow me more time to focus on #1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. When I don’t have anything to do at work, I’ll take free online courses, such as project management or website design, to improve my skills that will help with #1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Remember my goal of turning my side hustle into a full-time income so I can quit my 8-5 job by the end of 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      What makes you bored? How do you know when you’re bored? And how do you minimize your boredom? Leave a comment with your ideas and suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      When I was working my 8-5 job, I sometimes was so bored! This article is about those times and how I got out of the boredom hamster wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servossvirtualservices.com\/staging\/6081\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}