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Boredom is an interesting state of mind. I’ve been “lucky” in the past to have plenty of first-hand experience on this subject . I had enough opportunities to study it, and to find ways to completely remove it from my life. Now I never get bored.

I don’t believe in short term remedies for boredom. They’re only as good as a way to pass / waste time. Let’s say you’re bored. You think to yourself I’ll get online and play some yahoo / flash / silly game, and you do. After playing for a while, you’re bored again. What you just did:

• you temporarily avoided boredom
• maybe you had some fun (bored fun, which is not the same as fun fun)
• you spent / wasted some time of your life

What you just didn’t do:

• you didn’t find out why you were bored in the first place
• you didn’t find a way to avoid boredom in the future

People don’t get bored because they don’t have anything to do. Many bored people have plenty of things to do. Boredom is the lack of interest toward anything. Kind of like laziness, but a little different. If you don’t have anything to do, you may think that is the cause of boredom, but it actually isn’t.

The real cause of boredom

Boredom always bares some excess energy. You feel you have energy, you’d like to do something, but can’t find anything interesting . Boredom itself is the result of this unchanneled energy.

So, in order to get rid of boredom, you must find a way to channel the excess energy. You need to find a good purpose, or goal, for yourself, and to start working towards that.

The real cause of boredom is the lack of a good purpose or goal.

Good is mandatory. It’s not enough just to have a goal and work towards it, it has to be a good one. If it’s just a goal, you’ll channel some energy to it, but eventually it will become boring too.

Finding a good purpose

Definitely, having a good purpose is the long term cure for boredom. But you need to put some time into finding it. It’s not too difficult. Use your intuition to find a goal that resonates with you. Here’s some examples:

• get fit physically
• earn six figures (or seven)
• become healthy
• become happy

Your own goal or purpose could be something totally different though. Choose something that you’re passionate about - you will channel a lot of energy towards it. Some people say that when you find your purpose, it will be so very obvious that you’ve found it: your feelings will be so strong that it will make you cry. If you smiled condescendingly (nice word, isn’t it? ) when you read that last sentence, it means you’re either stubborn (which is good most of the times) or very depressed (or both). Either way, it will take you a little more time to find it, because you’re sabotaging yourself. But you’ll find it for sure, if you spend some time thinking about it. How much time is needed depends on each person. Some need as little as 20 minutes, while others need two hours or even more.

After you’ve defined your purpose, you’ll never be bored again (unless you chose a purpose that you’re not really passionate about, that needs to be changed). You’ll use your time and energy to find ways to get there.