Before going into the subject I will try to define the concept of "dead hour". There are basically 3 types of hours:
They are all the hours that make up your working day or all the hours dedicated to studying if you are a student.
Are all the hours that They are NOT part of your working dayl. Practically here we include everything that is not work. Type B is formed by all the hours you spend sleeping, eating, doing sports, enjoying with friends, etc..
They are also part of this group all the obligations (non-work) that we must fulfill, be it taking care of our children or other family members. If a week is made up of 168 hours and 40 of them are spent working, you still have 123 Type B hours. These hours account for 77% of the total time you have in your week.
Despite the fact that the two previous definitions practically complete 100% of our time, from time to time various circumstances lead us to suffer what we call "dead hour".
The main characteristic of the idle hours is that are located in the middle of two activities. Depending on how you have structured your life, you will suffer downtime in one way or another. In particular, I usually have idle hours on weekends on the occasions when I meet friends for dinner, for example at 10, and yet it is 9 o'clock and I am already home showered and tidied up, waiting for it to be 10 o'clock..
The 60 minutes that pass from 9 to 10 form the dead hour. On the one hand that time is too long like to waste it or try to finish it off by looking at the clock every 5 minutes.
On the other hand is too short to start a new task like studying or cleaning the house. In addition, the state of motivation and joy in which I find myself before an imminent night of fun with friends causes a certain rejection of tedious tasks (cleaning) or obligations (studying).
Even though it's still 9 o'clock, inside I'm already enjoying the night. For this reason I try to invest the idle hours in certain tasks that I have pending for a long time but that are not too tedious. In fact they are tasks that I really want to do at that moment.
1- Calling friends or family with whom I have not spoken for a long time.
2- Browse the internet for inspiration for future articles.
3- Take a look at the refrigerator and make the shopping list.
4- Leave the house in order before I go. I do not consider it "cleaning" in the strict sense, but rather to leave it all collected. The hangover the next day will thank you.
5- Empty the email tray of old emails or advertising.
6- Delete Facebook contacts.
7- Do push-ups and / or sit-ups. If I'm already showered, I choose another option.
8- Burn a music CD for the car.
9- Sort photos.
10- Find interesting books for future purchases.
11- Leave a cold pasta salad made for the next day. The hangover will thank you too.
12- Pick up the hanging clothes.
13- Throw out expired medicines.
14- Delete contacts from the phone book.
Not everyone has dead hours, or at least is not aware of them. Don't confuse bored hours with idle hours.
Boredom hours are part of Type B Hours. Imagine that you go to the cinema but the movie bores you. In principle it was a leisure time that has become a boring time. However, both moments are part of Type B Hours. As I have already mentioned, my idle hours are almost always located between a playful Saturday afternoon (Type B) and waiting (Type C) for dinner (Type B). ).
And you when you usually suffer the dead hours? What do you do to take advantage of them?
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