Q&A for How to Pass Time when You're Bored

No one can tell you that. Take some time to think about what you love and what you want of life. Ask yourself what steps you can take to head in the right direction. Make a list of goals and start working on them.

It depends on where you are. If you're in a warm or hotter place, you could go swimming, or play some sports. If you're in a chilly or colder place, you could stay inside and express yourself, or go outside and take a walk.

Try to remember the position you were in when you woke up. This is most likely the most comfortable position for you. Tense your toes tightly and then relax them, keeping the rest of your body as still as possible, like a dead weight with no tension. Then move to your feet, tensing for 10 seconds and then relaxing to dead weight. Move to your ankles, then calves, then slowly up the rest of your body until you have tensed and relaxed every muscle. Make especially sure your shoulders and neck are relaxed. Try to move your body as little as possible. Only your belly should be moving from deep, slow breaths.

You could watch something on another device, like a phone or iPad if you have one, or you could turn the TV on with the volume down really low and sit near it.

You can hang out with friends or family, or go to your favorite places. You can read, draw, play card games, or do something active like take a walk or shoot hoops.

If it's snowy, go outside and play in the snow. Make an igloo, or call some friends over and have a snowball fight. If it's not snowy, you can do an arts and crafts project, read a book, play a video game, watch YouTube videos, make up a story or draw a comic book, or see if any friends or siblings want to play a board game with you.

If you're bored with everything, you should do something therapeutic like organizing things or drawing.