Number One and Two Cures for Boredom

Wikipedia Boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in the opportunities surrounding them.

People that live inspired lives use boredom to refresh their batteries. Kind of ironic, no?

But this is about creating excitement without having to be inspired.

Strangely enough, at the core of the boredom issue is adrenaline.

We are often bored because we live with too much negative adrenaline.

City life sterilizes our existence; removes the danger and excitement of the real struggle for survival. The lizard brain which has produced all the excitement we have needed for a million years is sound asleep.

The kind of adrenaline we have replaced lizard brain activity with is stress.

• Too much on our minds
• Too busy of agendas
• Too much responsibility
• Too much noise
• Too many people
• Too many worries
• Too many goals

Then when we have a few minutes of free time, we are checking our I-phones for messages or sending them. When we have an opportunity for down time we fill it up with activities to get a boost like smoking, coffee, or texting.

What happens to the brain when it has too much unfocused, multitasking, over load is that it loses memory like a computer. When it loses memory power, it loses the ability to focus. When you can’t focus you lose the ability and desire to work on meaningful tasks or projects.

The first cure is to live inspired, but that is a whole other topic. (E book attached)

The next opportunity is to incorporate Courage and Discipline into your life; two great Cures.

People are bored because there is no challenge, no risk, and no positive adrenaline. So we want to create positive not self destructive adrenaline.

Two ways to get your adrenaline pumping are to focus on activities that require personal courage, not necessarily physical courage. This can be accomplished by creating personal challenges everyday and a list of personal goals that require discipline.

Set daily goals that will make you a more powerful person as an influencer, leader, friend, mate, parent, employee, boss, or community icon.

The first and most important is to become an influencer. This is a person who lives in an admirable fashion and acts, thinks, and speaks on a cutting edge. How do you get in this mode? Anyone can do it right now. Start doing things that require personal courage.

• In Sales, Who could I call right now that could be a difference maker?
• In school, what activity could I do right now that would be challenging and make me a better hire in the future? What could I study, learn, or begin that scares me because of the difficulty?
• In a relationship, what could I tell my mate that would give them a better insight into how I think? What am I most afraid to tell my mate that could make our relationship better?
• Own a company, what direction could I take us that would create a new niche without risking the whole enterprise? What claim of our expertise would make us a player? How do I deliver it?

In other words, what could I do everyday that would be a difference making activity? What could I start becoming everyday that would make people stand up and notice? What goal could I start working on right now that scares me but would make my life a lot more meaningful or incredible?

The second way to pump up your life is with more discipline for personal goals.

• Create a solid plan to get in better shape
• Create a solid plan to eat better
• Create a solid plan to lose weight
• Create a plan to read better material
• Get more organized
• Create deeper relationships
• Maintain extreme cleanliness, hygiene, and neatness

These items not only give you a higher quality life and build solid self esteem, but they will give you confidence that you can tackle more difficult challenges. You really have to have your life together and have discipline to achieve greatness. Do not let yourself off the hook or rationalize shortcomings. This leads to boredom.

I always found the more I could force improvement in exercise, the more I could tackle challenges that require more fortitude or courage.

I get bored, but I purposely plan it into my day so that I can refresh. One reason people are exhausted and then bored is they don’t allow any downtime. I am up at 4 or 5 a.m. because I am refreshed and it is quiet. I take three breaks during the day to surf, nap, and/or sit in the sun at the beach. I have three work sessions surrounding these breaks.

Each work session is challenging. I don’t need much sleep because my planned down time relaxes my nervous system.

Sleep is mostly about calming the nervous system. If you have no down time, your system will not recover. If you have too much alcohol, you cannot sleep. If you never have exercise, your brain is not functioning to optimum. Alpha and beta waves that power concentration and creativeness need aerobic activity at least every other day.

The brain also needs lots of protein, lots of omega 3 fatty acids, and lots of water.

It doesn’t need refined carbohydrates (sugar) or bad fats (Omega 6, mayonnaise, cooking oil, fried foods).

So if you don’t give the brain the things it needs, you will not be able to concentrate and do important work and you will be bored with what you feel like doing.

Do what Seth Godin says and always be shipping. This means you are always producing remarkable products, ideas, thoughts, and results.

If you want to live inspired, that is a whole new ball game but I offer a free e book you can download to explore.

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