Ignore Your Social Media Feeds

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In defence of squandered hours, Oscar Wilde once said:

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

While you might normally use your lunch hour to glance through news stories, Instagram, Facebook feeds and group chats, consider putting a lunchtime ban on mindless scrolling.

Instead of glazing over at your phone screen every day, mix things up by finding a way to engage with the environment around you: consider starting a conversation with someone new, draw something or start reading a new book.

You’ll be much more aware of what happened in your lunch hour rather than merely letting the time slip past uneventfully.

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