Enrichment. Take up a creative hobby. You don’t have to be good, just be creating stuff you want to create.
Music, food, plants, drawings, sculpture, journal, creative writing, exercise, knitting, flower pressing, dorodangos (literally polishing a ball of dirt). Be building something, you need enrichment. Learn to sing/instrument. Start a sourdough starter (why did sourdough become popular when we locked indoors? Enrichment). Get some pencils and scrap book. Start a indoor/outdoor garden.
Pick something appropriate to your time/budget. Time rich, money poor: pick something you can fuss over for a long time and is no more expensive than a pack of pencils. Time poor, money poor: Mediterranean herbs thrive on neglect, start a rosemary plant.
Your hobby might not have been doing the hobby. But, talking with people doing the hobby then. Less talk about doing the thing, more do the thing.
Example, one of my hobbies is motorcycles and the riding them. I have zero posts in r/motorcycle or c/motorcycles. Because I’m busy riding them and meeting people to ride them.
Do you spend most of your time getting ideas and tips or executing them? Your hobby might be the gathering of tips and ideas. Want to spend less time on Reddit, spend more time executing the ideas and tips you’re gathering.
Enrichment. Take up a creative hobby. You don’t have to be good, just be creating stuff you want to create.
Music, food, plants, drawings, sculpture, journal, creative writing, exercise, knitting, flower pressing, dorodangos (literally polishing a ball of dirt). Be building something, you need enrichment. Learn to sing/instrument. Start a sourdough starter (why did sourdough become popular when we locked indoors? Enrichment). Get some pencils and scrap book. Start a indoor/outdoor garden.
Pick something appropriate to your time/budget. Time rich, money poor: pick something you can fuss over for a long time and is no more expensive than a pack of pencils. Time poor, money poor: Mediterranean herbs thrive on neglect, start a rosemary plant.
Tried this. Unfortunately ime the best creative hobby communities are still on reddit. I’m on it as much as I ever was, but my subs changed.
Your hobby might not have been doing the hobby. But, talking with people doing the hobby then. Less talk about doing the thing, more do the thing.
Example, one of my hobbies is motorcycles and the riding them. I have zero posts in r/motorcycle or c/motorcycles. Because I’m busy riding them and meeting people to ride them.
I find it helpful to get ideas and tips from a community, especially for creative hobbies.
Do you spend most of your time getting ideas and tips or executing them? Your hobby might be the gathering of tips and ideas. Want to spend less time on Reddit, spend more time executing the ideas and tips you’re gathering.
I do both. I find the tips and ideas helpful for executing.