15 Skills to develop during Quarantine

15 Skills to develop during Quarantine

 

 Are you wondering to make this quarantine useful and productive. Instead of getting bogged by the thoughts, take each of these days as an opportunity to build up some new skills, work on your hobbies and do things that you have always wanted to do but it was impossible to do because of less time in such a hectic life.

 There are lists of skills that you can learn and upgrade yourself during this self quarantine period.

1.Writing Skills

Now seeing this you may have thought that what is the need of having writing skills, what is it and many more.

Writing skills means the way you can express your thoughts , opinion , facts ,stories etc, that makes your thoughts clear and comprehensible to the readers.

It can be a advantage for someone who has this awesome skills in a number of ways such as -

 * It will help you to communicate with clarity.

 * It is also useful in professional backgrounds .

 * Expressing your own thoughts while writing reliefs stress from your mind.

 * It will make you more productive.

 * It will help you in making good decisions.

While staying in a quarantine you can be creative in writing skills. Everyone can be a good writer with just little practice.To learn writing something you should have patients and have to write something daily and regularly. 

When you start writing something then you should know what to write because there are many parts of creative writing like you can learn to write poems, novels, journals, short Stories etc. 

2. Learn different languages

Learning International Languages

 In this generation is a craze for everyone to earn more and more money. So learning international languages is on demand , as most of the co-operative companies offers extra allowances. As in such a busy life style it will be hard to learn new skills. 

Thus in order to make this quarantine period more interesting start learning new languages. Now the question arises how to can it be possible to learn these languages while maintaining social distancing. The answer is there are many institution who are providing online classes on you can also learn for free , from applications like duolingo available in play store.

3.Blogging.

 You may come across that you should start blogging. But when it comes to actual writing blogs, it is easy to make excuses.

 " We/I don't have time."

 "We/I don't have anything new to write."

 "Oh!, wait anyone even reading our blog?"

These all are ligitimate answers that prevents us from doing something new.

We all have made excuses that we don't have time to write a blog but now in this quarantine you all have got the chance to showoff your skills. Nothing interesting to write? Just see the readers interest and provide information

in the best way as you can. Do not concern about how many people will be going to read your blog just post your views and thoughts. Do not demotivate yourself and delay yourself in posting your blog.

  Now, many of you who are reading this article may not know what does the blog means and how a blogging skill is useful.

A blog is an online informational website which has information in the reverse chronological order. It is a platform where a writer or a group of writers who shares their thoughts and views regarding anyone of the subject.

Blogging is beneficial for everyone :

1.It helps you to express yourself and share your passions.

2.It helps to share your knowledge.

3.It helps in refining your writing skills.

4.It also give the idea of making money online.

5.Through your blogging skill you can build your professional network.

4.Sketching and Drawing

This skill is a form of art to record freestyle drawing of what the artist sees and imagine. I know many of you will be going to skip this point without reading this. As many of you will say "Oh this is tough! and won't be able to do".

So learn and practice this skill during this quarantine.

Learning this doesn't need any tutor. It depends on you, visualise what you see and illustrate in the form of drawing. With a continuous practise can make you perfect and if you are a beginner in making sketches then you can also take help from YouTube. Art is such a vast field in which you can learn many things. 

5.Handicraft

Due to the hustle in our day to day life we don't get time to show our handicraft skills. In this quarantine you can make handicraft items. You don't need to step out of your house, whatever you have try to use it and make useful objects. You can also make decorative items for your home.

You can feel proud by making a handmade item as it is special and unique but importantly you have given your effort and time. Due to the introduction of machines handicraft items is reduced and whatever we get is mostly expensive. Not to sit idle and get bored in this quarantine period with your creativity skills make handmade items, and make this self quarantine most effective one.

6.Learn playing music

Almost all of you can relate yourself with music. Many of you had a passion to play musical instrument like guitar, piano and drum etc, but did not manage your time with your daily work load. Now, due to the self quarantine you had the chance to work towards your passion. For this reason many of the institution is providing online classes so that you can learn this skill while staying at home.

Music is the feeling of emotions that comes from within. You can be magnificent in this skill when you start understanding the meaning of each note and you can learn singing with any instrument like harmonium, guitar, tabla etc.. 

7.Cooking

Everyone has a great desire of having delicious restaurants foods or street food. But because of the lockdown you all cannot fulfill your aspiration. In order to attain your wants, you can cook many delicious dishes at home with all the ingredients are available to you. 

We all know, that the food cooked in our homes are way more healthy and delicious than the outside one. 

By this you can experience a great family time and celebrate your day

8.Reading

There are many of you out there who are found of reading books or novels .Because of the daily rush that was impossible to get some leisure time and read them. While staying inside in your home during this quarantine you can read many books as you want to.

Reading increases our thinking capability and helps us to understand the things more deeply ,which you can make use in your normal life after this quarantine period.

It is obvious that a question will arise in your mind that how you all can read books without buying it as you of unable to do so during this lockdown. For this I have a solution, let me tell you there are many applications available on Google Play Store and App store, by installing the application you can read any books of your own will.

9.Exercising 

Exercising is one of the activities that is being ignored by most of the people. We all must add exercising in our daily schedule. Exercising not only keeps our body healthy but also it allows us to be more focused and energetic throughout the day. 

One of the best exercise which is recommended by all the doctors and trainers is yoga. Yoga is best exercise for all age group people.Yoga helps in maintaining the mental health as well as body flexibility. Performing Yoga daily early in the morning is beneficial for everyone. It also prevents us from obesity, so reducing the risk of having the heart diseases, diabetes, hypertension, thyroid, weakening of bones and many more.

 Till now we all have excuses of not having time. As you all are quarantine yourself inside, so it is the best time to to perform some physical activities.Being indoor continuously can make a body stiff, to prevent form it exercising is must needed.

10.Singing

Have you ever wished, that you could sing a song you love and thought it was impossible, as you can't sing in the same note ? Do your friends and family make faces while to start singing or may be you judge yourself that you are a bad singer.

    Whatever may be the cause but you should not give up hope. In reality even the best singers used to practise, studied to refine their own voice. Though they make it easy but apparently it is not. So don't underestimate yourself that you are a bad singer. But actually you are not, it is just because you sing wrong tune.

     So, whatever the singing ability you have, you can learn to sing in a good voice. Without any further avoidance start and learn singing in this quarantine .

11. Acting

Acting is the art of performing roles of a particular character. Beside your daily responsibilities, many of you had the great aspiration to be an actor/actress. But due to some reason you cannot fulfill your will. To be perfect in acting skills, it requires a lot of practise. Evidently due to the daily rush many of you do not get time to furnished yourself in this skill. 

You may have a question that it is not possible in this quarantine period to have a factor. Some of the acting schools has provided their own online classes. If not possible, then act in front of the mirror. You, yourself is the best tutor. Believe me you will be better in acting but you have to work on it. And who knows the destiny where it can takes you to.

12.Dancing

Dancing is a performing Art. It is the movement of the human body in a rythmic ways usually to music and their beats. There are many people who does not know how to dance. Sometime you feel embarrassed when someone ask you to dance , as you don't know how to perform it.

Dancing is also a physical activity which keeps the body fit. There is no particular age to learn, you just simply have the passion or will to learn some new skills. There are numerous videos on YouTube or may join the available online classes for the little guidance. Due to the work load you do not get enough time for practicing. So utilise this quarantine time for learning. 

Learning from home can make you a good dancer but you have to put your own effort on it.

13. Editing

Editing is the process of correction, condensation, organisation and other modification of small audio or video clips, photos etc, to make a complete content. Most of the people used to earn money from social media like YouTube, facebook, instagram. For making a perfect vlog you must know about editing. There are many software for editing. You can make money form this platform.

So for this reason, just furnished yourself in video editing in this quarantine. Share your views to the world may be some of them who are just like you needs a little inspiration. You can also make short films or whatever you want to. Believe me! editing skills will help you in many ways. There may be the chance someone can hire you for a job that would be the game changing for the job seek.

Thus learn as much as you can, which can help you in the future.

14.Hacking

Hacking is the activities by which someone can hack or can access any other device by making a connection with the target device by using different commands of computer language,targeted device can be any device like phones,desktop,laptop etc.. It has to be connected with network to have communication with external businesses. It can expose any personal information of any company or anything.There are many types of hacking like phishing, ethical hacking etc.And to prevent the private information, all famous and successful companies or co-operative companies hires hackers,they protect their all important data of companies. Hackers are also paid extra allowances. Thus it seems hacking is very much on demand in todays world.

But the main thing is that hackers do their job under certain guidelines, the violation of this guidelines is a crime.

So during this self quarantine you get the time to learn hacking that might be helpful for your betterment but the misuse of this hacking will turn into a crime so be aware!

15. Family Time

This is not a skill and I know that some of you are too lazy to to try all the skills mentioned above. So this one is for you my friend. 

 Being quarantine yourself in the house makes you boredom. So spending these time with your family is the best chance you all have. 

We all are living in a generation where life has become too harsh. Each and everyone is too busy in working towards their own goals. It resulted that none of them have time for their own beloved once. As we all know, whatever happens is happens for some good reasons. So make this opportunity best and memorable. Have all those moments with your family members, which you wanted to experience from a long-long time ago. Know your family members closely , know about their problems and try to short out them, it is your family who are always with you in your good and bad times no matter what the situation is.


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