101 tis to make yourself busy

1. You can catch up on all the reading you’ve wanted to through the library.
2. You can spend more time with your family.
3. Be sure to exercise; you’ve certainly got enough time.
4. Check out the free and/or low-cost museums and art galleries in your area.
5. If you can swing financial aid or scholarships, it’s a great time to go back to school.
6. You can learn a new language.
7. Become a part of local community programs and youth programs.
8. You can volunteer more at your local church.
9. Become politically active and help a local candidate with their needs.
10. You can learn to play an instrument.
11. Catch up on your social networking; if you’re lucky, it could turn into employment networking, too.
12. You can write a book.
13. You can start a blog.
14. You can take up phoography.
15. You can return to an old hobby.
16. You can become an expert online gamer.
17. You can study philosophy; what IS the meaning of life?
18. You can take MIT'S free online courses.
19. You can begin correspondence (online and/or offline) with old friends and family.
20. You can become a Big Brother/Big Sister to a kid in need.
21. You can plant a garden.
22. You can take up roller skating.
23. You can volunteer at your local library.
24. You can volunteer at an animal shelter.
25. You can volunteer for the red cross.
26. You can join the peace corps.
27. You can play board games with your significant other, friends or children.
28. You can visit old friends.
29. You can spend more time with your pet(s).
30. You can keep your lawn immaculately maintained.
31. You can clean out your car.
32. You can re-organize your closets.
33. You can learn new things from TV channels like discovery and pbs.
34. You can contact old professors and see if they’ll let you sit in on their classes.
35. You can learn meditation techniques.
36. You can make peace with those you have a grudge against.
37. You can become a part of local theatrical productions.
38. You can explore somewhere new each day.
39. Try cooking through the items in your pantry and trying new things.
40. You can join a choir or other musical group.
41. You can do lots of free reading/people watching at the bookstore.
42. You can research your family genealogy at the library.
43. You can spend lots of time with your pooch at the local dog parks.
44. You can start a band.
45. You can go on mission trips with your church.
46. Look up an old flame and see how they’re doing.
47. You can learn to play tennis.
48. You can learn to paint.
49. You can begin scrapbooking.
50. While not quite as productive, you can watch a whole lot of youtube.
51. You can join a book club, on or offline.
52. You can start a Web site.
53. You can create videos and put them up on youtube.
54. You can visit your alma mater and see all of your favorite professors.
55. You can visit your parents.
56. You can go bowling.
57. You can take dancing lessons.
58. You can practice swimming.
59. Go window shopping as an extra incentive to land some work.
60. You can become a history expert.
61. You can take up bike riding throughout the town.
62. Take up jogging/running.
63. Embrace your inner child and take up skateboarding.
64. Check to see if any local theatre productions could use an extra.
65. Keep a journal of what you do each day.
66. You can learn about the history of art
67. You can learn about the history of music.
68. Deliberately go back to the hard books you never finished and read them cover to cover.
69. You can help your friends who are at-home parents take care of their children.
70. You can become really great at chess.
71. You can hone your concentration by putting models together.
72. You can become really good at a variety of puzzles, such as Sudoku.
73. You can begin recycling.
74. You can challenge yourself to learn one new thing a day.
75. You can map out goals for the next week, month, and year, to give yourself some free-time guidance.
76. You can clean up the house.
77. Have a potluck cook out with some friends.
78. You can re-arrange your home furniture to be more to your liking.
79. You can, of course, polish your resume until it is perfect.
80. You can organize your music collection.
81. It’s never too late or early to spring clean your computer, deleting files and organizing them as needed.
82. You can mow your lawn.
83. Catalogue what you liked and disliked about your previous job, and use that in your search for a new job.
84. Attend local lectures around your community.
85. Enjoy the season—sit on the porch in spring and by the fire in winter, and just enjoy the moment.
86. Have movie marathons with friends and family.
87. If you’ve never been good at cooking, there’s no better time to learn.
88. Write editorials to your local paper to become more involved in the community.
89. Take the time to go paperless—enroll in electronic billing wherever possible.
90. Take the time to talk to your parents every day.
91. Begin taking public transit wherever possible; it’s good for your wallet and good for the environment.
92. Take the time to get to know your neighbors.
93. Begin a dream journal and figure out what your mind is telling you.
94. You can attend your local bingo night.
95. You can hold a garage sale to help clean the house out and get some pocket money.
96. Take more time to play with your kids or your nieces and nephews.
97. Take the time to become closer to your spouse.
98. Dust off that telescope and practice your astronomy.
99. Be sure to volunteer for activities that have the potential to blossom into career opportunities.
100. Go treasure hunting by renting a metal detector. You never know what you’ll find.
101. Whatever you do, have fun.