Use time more productively. Small Steps: Make a list of activities that take up your time but are not useful or stimulating to you. Watching television, browsing through stores, and reading things you don’t find pleasant or productive are frequent sources of poorly used time. Make a list of activities you would like to try that you feel would be more productive than your current ones. Each day, add one item to the list. Once you have identified more-productive activities that you’d like to try, go ahead and give them a whirl—but in a very limited, nonthreatening manner.
