Steemit Engagement Challenge - S6W2: (What to do when you are bored)

Greetings fellow steemians,
Welcome to my entry number 3 in this week's engagement challenge. I'm grateful to God for giving me the strength to participate in this week's engagement. It is yet another wonderful topic from this noble community. Today we are discussing boredom and I will be answering the questions that come with it. Let's get started.

Boredom is a feeling that comes whenever we find ourselves not active or perhaps doing what is not interesting to us. Whenever we are idle, we must experience boredom. To me being bored means you are not doing anything at all. The causes of boredom include sitting in one place for a long period, being isolated, and working on compulsory tasks that don't interest you.

Whenever you begin reading a book that does not pass a message or when watching a movie that does not keep you in suspense, you will easily get bored. Boredom in essence has to do with what does not activate our thinking abilities. When your system is not completely activated you become bored.

There are many ways to overcome boredom. In my case, whenever I'm bored, I stop all indoor activities and then start outdoor activities. I go shopping, meet with friends and sometimes play football. Whenever you are doing all of these, the feeling of being bored will not show up any longer.

Another way to overcome boredom is to give yourself a task. I always set a goal for myself and that has been of great help to me. Whenever I remember that there is something I need to finish or I need to achieve before a given period, I feel energized and willing to work towards achieving it. So, therefore, setting a goal is a medicine for boredom.

To overcome boredom, all you need is to actively participate in whatever you find yourself. We all need to learn new things daily as learning is a continuous process. I made a resolution to always learn new things daily and that is the reason I read at least 20 articles from different authors daily on the steemit platform.

I read and listen to motivational speakers. Whenever I see a steemian standing out, I try to study the pattern which the person is using and in that way I get to learn and also improve myself. When you decide to learn something new every day, then you won't be bored because there are millions of things we wish to learn and we can only learn them when we become focused and dedicated.

Finally, to prevent boredom, you need to set a goal and then work towards achieving it. When you are aware that being bored can lead you to depression and that may affect your health, you will do anything humanly possible to avoid it. Always seek to do things that make you happy or better still get to enjoy any work you are doing.

If you are a student, try to love all the lecturers and the lecture no matter how difficult it is. If you are a worker, even if it is not your dream work, just enjoy it. Whenever we enjoy doing what we are doing, we bring out the best in us and that thing becomes more fruitful.

Boredom has led lots of people to an early grave because of what comes with it. We have seen depression among youths, students failing a course because they feel bored when a particular lecturer teaches, and people, committing different crimes because they are idle doing nothing. Boredom is a sickness that we all should not allow to take over us no matter the condition we find ourselves. I want to finally invite a few friends, to also join the contest @chiabertrand, @harferri, @lavanyalakshman and @inspiracion to join the contest.