GUIDE TO PRODUCTIVE AND HAPPY LOCKDOWN EXTENSION

GUIDE TO PRODUCTIVE AND HAPPY LOCKDOWN EXTENSION

Hello Everyone!

Having a trouble dealing with lockdown? Annoyed by the news of possible lockdown extension? 

Chillax! You're at the right place. This blog post will take you through a lot of ideas that will make your lockdown extension fun and productive! This lockdown can legit change your life. It can make your life, the way you always wanted it to be! Hence, it's kind of a treat to us!

Firstly, let us understand why the extension of lockdown is necessary, because few people are still not aware of why lockdown needs to be extended! 

The answer to this is, we all know that cases of positively reported corona virus in India has crossed a 7000 mark. Hence, it is very much essential for us to prevent the chances of contracting virus by being at home, following social distancing, sanitizing at regular intervals.

Now, jumping back to our topic, here are the few things that you can try during this lockdown extension.

ULTIMATE GUIDE TO HAPPY AND PRODUCTIVE LOCKDOWN EXTENSION:

1. Look at the positive aspects of the lockdown. Prepare yourself to be mentally strong. You can re-live your childhood memories/ summer holidays back again. Also, be grateful to those who'd working for the society(Real Heroes) and be appreciative of the privilege we are getting, i.e, being at home. This will bring out a positive and productive attitude.

2. Spend time with family.

3. Uninstall apps that make you scroll throught the day and eat up all of your time.

4. Time to indulge in self-grooming and self care. (YouTube is a saviour!)

5. Reconnect with old friends and stay connected with friends and family.

6. Be aware of what's happening around in the world by installing news apps like inshorts/economic times/Guardian/Hindu.

7. Waking up early will make you feel energetic and healthy.

8. Do some sort of exercise at home like Yoga or Gym at home.

9. Make a schedule and follow it for rest of the days.

10. Enjoy luxury baths by adding essential oils as that is a form of good aroma-therapy.

11. DIY Spa at home. Take good care of your hair, skin and body because now, is the time!

12. Make your king-sized breakfast everyday. Since you're at home, there aren't any excuses to skip meals.

13. Control over-binging and binge-watching by keeping a track of what you are consuming.

14. If you're working from home, you're still saving the travelling time, so you can also follow any of the tips given below.

15. Cook something new. It's time to be experimental in the kitchen.

16. Try your hands at  sketching/painting/colouring.

17. Indulge in art and craft.

18. Play games that makes you revisit your childhood memories like Ludo, chess, carroms, badminton etc. 

19. Watching your favourite childhood shows/cartoon to rekindle the joy that you've once experienced.

20. If you've kids at home, make them do DIY's, make them learn new things.

21. Try your hands at something new which you think you cannot do.

22. Make scented candles at home.

23. Bake a cake or cookies.

24. Write a poem or a story.

25. Learn a new language.

26. Learn an instrument if you have one at home.

27. Try singing or dancing. If you already do, then they can turn out to be a great "everyday workout".

28. Watch your favourite movie/show/series.

29. Check your bucket list and try to tick something off of it.

30. If you do not have a bucket list, then create one!

31. Read books which you never had time for!

32. If you are a student, then this lockdown is a golden opportunity for you! I know it's hard to avoid distractions, but if you do it now, then you're sure to shine!

33. Improve what you're average at and learn what you're bad at!

34. Sign up for a new course on Coursera.

35. Start making money by freelancing, if you've extra hours of time.

36. Educate yourself over financial literacy.

37. Up your Instagram game/Social media profile.

38. Give up an old habit or build a new habit as it takes only 21 days to form a new habit or to break and old one!

39. Engage into deep conversations with parents and learn something new about life.

40. Answer your kids' doubt and you'll surely learn something new.

41. Clean your room, get rid of unwanted things.

42. Declutter your closet, your phone, your thoughts and ultimately your life.

43. Strengthen your social, technical and communication skills.

44. Learn business etiquttes, classroom etiquttes, dining etiquettes etc.

45. Learn about your religion. Or learn about science behind all the religions!

46. Get to know about your customs and traditions.

47. Learn facts and myths about Covid-19. Learn not to forward/post anything on social media without cross-verifying it on official sources like WHO NEWS and WHO Myth busters

48. Jot down where you want to be after 5, 10 and 15 years. Make a plan and begin working on it.

49. Visit this website - Vogue Rog every alternate day and review her blog-post by commenting on it.

50. Co-operate well, understand that this lockdown extension is very much essential and do not create any kind of hurdles mentioned below!

MUST-DO's OF THE LOCKDOWN:

1. DO NOT HIT THE POLICE BACK:

I saw many videos of people hitting policeman surfacing on the internet. It feels too terrible to see a person being hit by public for protecting the public. People, please consider their selfless service before you get mad at them during this lockdown extension.

2. HELP THE HEROES:

I urge you all to help volunteers, police-force, medical practitioners, doctors, nurses and all other civil-aid authorities by co-operating with them and providing them with water, tea, protein-binge bars and food. That's the least we can do to make their lockdown extension easy!

3. CO-OPERATE BEING AT HOME:

Thinking that wearing a mask and stepping out of our homes would suffice? 

Well, Think again! 

Because, we can practically see that, doctors are all covered up but they're still getting infected because of viral transmission. So, a mask isn't all that can save us! Being at home is hence the best option for this lockdown extension!

4. TRY VOLUNTEERING, DONATING AND RENDERING YOUR SERVICES TO PEOPLE:

If you can go for volunteering, then you must! If not volunteering then help with supplies and essentials to the needy or maybe donate to different official and registered websites(make sure it's a trusted source). Distributing ration required for a month is rather a much better option.

5. DO NOT TAKE HUNDRED PICTURES WHILE DOING CHARITY AND POST THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Taking a picture, one or two, to influence people to do charity is a good thought but bombarding someone's phone/WhatsApp groups with 40-50 pictures in a single go, isn't a good deed. It might come off as an act of show-off which isn't the purpose!

6. EDUCATE THE UNKNOWN ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS/BENEFITS

Helpers who help you at your place with routine-work/household-work might not be very well versed with facilities given to them by government or other people. So when you get to know about this, you can just contact them and educate them by letting them know about the same! This will be of great great great help to them.

I hope, this blog will help you to fill the blanks of your extra time with some productive and healthy activities and I hope that after reading this blog, you'll be all set to cope up with this extension of lockdown and will be in positive and happy spirits! Thank you so much for making it till the end of this blog!!

    

     ---HARSHITHA JAIN

         VOGUE ROG.