If your bank account is anything like mine you may find yourself making different choices about your leisure activity. The two things I like to do when stressed:
Buy and Eat. Buy to eat. Eat and then buy. Eating is my favorite. Shopping is not a pastime for me. However, when I am stressed I start hankering for product, “Ohhh, look at the bright, shining things”. The shelves are stacked with sirens calling me to them and what to them all home.
The current limits in my bank account and the sedentary new lifestyle I have achieved prevent me from answering the call to buy and eat. The question then becomes how do I respond to the urges?
Write, write, write… is my answer. What can you write?
- Write down goals
- Begin your novel, short story,big book of ideas, poetry collection
- Write articles and submit them all over the place
- Begin a blog and discuss the news of the day
- Start a journal and write about private demons that torment you
- Write an ebook
- Sales copy for a client
- Write an ad to get a client who needs sales copy
- Write long letters to friends in faraway places
- Write on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter
- Create elaborate to-do lists that will take you ten years to complete
- Write a book for kids
- Create a website about writing and invite your friends
The list is endless. You could spend your days writing a list about what you could write about.
When the going gets tough… heck you’re tough, start writing.
The times may be tough but that doesn’t mean we can’t be grateful for the things we do have in our lives right now.