Years ago when I was going through a hard time, my therapist recommended that I read Dr. Wayne W. Dyer’s Your Erroneous Zones. This book changed my life in many ways, but one of my key takeaways has to do with boredom. I am never bored. In fact, the word bored doesn’t even exist in my vocabulary—I can’t remember the last time I used it! Like happiness, I believe that boredom is a choice, and so does Dyer.
He says that boredom is a spinoff of procrastination and that you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind at the very moment that boredom strikes. “By doing what you choose, now,” Dyer explains, “or using your mind in creative new ways now, you can ensure that you’ll never again choose boredom for yourself. The choice, as always, is yours.” While it may seem crazy or hard at first, once you get in the habit of keeping yourself busy, you’ll learn to never be bored again.
