Some tips for lazy asses like me

The Spread of Coronavirus has stopped us all for a little bit. Best thing we can do right now for us and for others is to stay at home, this includes both work from home and both enjoy activities inside. At first few days such lazy activities as enjoying movies and tv shows all day sounds great, but after those days the thought of being unproductive lazy ass hits us.

It might sound very hard to be productive at home, try to do meaningful activities, learn something new, try those recipes you always wanted, but if you find the right activities you will get hooked.

Here are some ideas from me :)

Learn from movies and TV shows

Watching Netflix all day sure sounds lazy, but you can trick everyone and yourself by watching something educational online. And it still will be fun.

There are millions of movies and TV shows and you can learn a lot from some of them, from learning history about our great ancestors, to learning about the nature that surrounds us.

Coming back to Netflix (yes I am a Netflix fan) here you can find all sorts of movies that are not there just to make you laugh or cry, but to actually teach you something. Here are few:

Teach Us All

The Bad Kids

Brain Games

Lego House: Home of The Brick

Our Planet

World War II In colour

Icarus

The Great Hack

Netflix also has a wide choice of documentary movies about serial killers if you do want to educate yourself about the history of those. Just my two cents: don’t watch too many of those, it might cause a little bit of anxiety.

Another two cents from me, if you do want to watch everything on Netflix invest in a VPN, it will help you to get a bigger choice of content on Netflix, or even unlock other streaming platforms that are not available in your region.

Here are the best VPNs for Netflix (and some discounts for them)

Surfshark with 83% discount

NordVPN with 70% discount

CyberGhost with few extra months for free

PrivateVPN with 65% discount

Get Online Courses

Online courses are a great way to learn something new, from coding to cooking, the possibilities are limitless.

One of the major and most popular online courses platforms is Udemy, here you can find 100 000 online courses from all sorts of spheres. I guess the hardest thing will be to decide what to learn, if you don’t have any idea or something that you always wanted to learn, there are many articles on Medium talking about the skills that are most needed right now, so maybe they will give you some inspiration.

Also there are much more online course places like Udacity, you can also find open Yale courses online, right now during the coronavirus you can access free Ivy league courses here or you can just use old but gold Youtube to find all sorts of tutorials.

But if you decide to buy Udemy or any other paid subscription I recommend trying to buy it with VPN (yes VPN again), you will find cheaper prices when you connect to different countries. This is called price discrimination, when prices vary based on your location. This works with much more items and services online, you can buy cheaper plane tickets, all sorts of subscriptions, even items on Amazon.

Watch Some TED talks

I personally really enjoy learning from TED talks, you can find them on their official website, you can also listen to them on Spotify. There are thousands of great TED talks, where people are sharing their life experiences, knowledge and trying to inspire people. You know what is the main idea behind a TED talk for the speaker? To inspire at least one person that is in the audience. And for I personally got a lot of inspiration from them.

Learn a new language

Learning a new language might sound hard at first but it isn’t, believe me. I have written an article about how each one of us can be a polyglot and enjoy learning new languages. And at this time when we have so much time left for self-improvement I guess it is about time to learn that language that you always wanted to learn. There are many tools you can use, there are many ways to make the language learning fun and easy.

Get off that couch and start being productive. Although for these activities you don’t even need to get off the couch, which sounds not that bad, right?