What Can You Do When You Have No Internet Connection?
Dainis Graveris
Sorry for little silence here – I switched my Internet providers and had no Internet connection for several days. It was strange, I was so used to my Internet related daily work flow, I didn’t know at first what to do! It was like I have no business, no blog, no connection with outside world. I called to several of my friends and when I told it to one girl I know, she suggested interesting article idea.
She said: “Well, why you don’t write about that as well? Your site is full of roundups, some tips in such cases could be useful as well!”. Right and so I took paper and actually wrote down my ideas! This is very short article, but I am expecting you to add your ideas as well! What can we do to get out from daily work flow, from struggling, get organized and feel good?
1. Take a rest
Take a walk out to breathe some fresh air and get work a little bit out of your system or even better look at all from aside to rethink your strategy, future goals and things you could change or do to get better what are you working on.
2. Read design related book
I bet you have several books in your bookshelf you always wanted to read but never got time! At least I have a lot of them, now is a great time to remember about them and use your free time to do what you love to do!
3. Watch Video Tutorials
Again if you are obsessed designer like I am, you certainly should have to be 30-40gb video tutorials you downloaded a while ago, but never got time to learn them! Usually in busy work-flow we forget to learn tools first, we just need to get job done, but if you continue to learn and evolve your skills, you will suddenly discover some more different ways and techniques, how to achieve necessary outcome much faster! It’s amazing how much we still don’t know after many years working in design niche!
4. Create a new design, artwork
It really helps if you store your favorite designs, photos, artworks on local hard-drive for later use, so you can get inspiration also when you have no Internet connection. Anyway you can spend hours playing with effects, fonts, textures, artworks – to perfect your skills.
5. Take a pencil, paints and paper
Take your time and enjoy how creative you can be while sketching or drawing – do something different to enjoy your life even more!
6. Go And Meet Friend
Such things happen to everybody – in all rush, sometimes we forget about really great friends, so this time be first to call them out! If you have some good friends in your own design niche, it’s even more useful – you can meet up, exchange opinions and get fresh ideas. I really evaluate such friends, where we both can contribute in some way from each other.
7. Get out and start to do some sport
We spend a lot of our time in front of computer, but we shouldn’t forget about our health – it’s more worth than anything! Start to do yoga, play football, volleyball, swimming, run or find out where is the nearest gym from your home! You will definitely feel better each day, I assure you!
8. Listen relaxing music
Get lazy, relax, watch movie, listen music – you earned it! Whole life doesn’t consist from rush, struggling from lack of time. Take your breathe slowly and enjoy selfhanded free time!
9. Go out to museum, exhibition – any creative and inspiring place!
Find out if there are any interesting exhibitions, design conferences happening in your town and again get out!
10. Organize, clean up your workspace
It may happen to all of us – while we are working hard, we are creating mess around us and slowly it’s affecting our work-flow as well. Our environment changes us as well as people around you. Maybe you need to change also how your furniture, computer, lights are organized?
11. Organize, clean up your desktop
Sounds obvious, but you cannot imagine how much you waste time while searching through numerous folders necessary file or image, when you could easily organize everything! Clean up desktop, create folders, move files to appropriate directories! Very helpful in daily work-flow!
12. Create organized schedule
In all rush you sometimes forget things you must do? Create schedule and get used to it, definitely will help to organize your daily workflow and you will feel much better, it’s about organizing your life! Article I created a while ago could actually help you as well – Plan Your Daily Schedule: Useful Resources.
13. Don’t do anything!
If you are always running and running you should enjoy something different as well – watch movie, sleep a little bit longer – don’t make it as regular habit, but from time to time it’s really relaxing!
I would love to hear your advices how you enjoy and spend your free time, what you do to get out from struggling in your work and where you find inspiration to keep on doing what are you doing!?!
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Christian Jessen
Posted 776 days ago 57I would often wish I had more time without internet… Working with internet all day, and when I dont work, I end up reading articles on different blogs, follow links from Twitter, etc. etc. – like how I ended up reading this article. ;-)
I mostly enjoy just spending time with friends. Watch a movie, play cards, go out and play pool or have a few beers on a bar. Luckily it can be quite easy to escape from the whole big internet here, from time to time. And actually talk to REAL people. ;-)
Otto
Posted 776 days ago 56I had a similar experience. No cell phone connection in the mountains. It gave me the excuse to go an photograph the surrounding snow covered hills. I also discovered how annoying it is to have folks at the dinner table on the phone texting or surfing the web on a laptop.
I’m enforcing a ban on any connectivity during family time like dinner. No internet connection…we can actually talk (revolutionary). My job does depend on Internet connection but we do sometimes need to go back to basics.
I like the pencil and paper idea a lot and use it often.
Thanks for posting!
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Tony
Posted 776 days ago 55Hit on chicks at a bar? Sign me up!
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Stilogeno
Posted 776 days ago 54Or…. you could do as i am right now, and go to a nice coffee shop with wireless conection drinking refill coffee for several hours.
The Internet is free in some public places and stores 8D
Hexacreative
Posted 776 days ago 53#InspireToday
thanks!
Radek
Posted 776 days ago 52Or simply Twitter by SMS nonstop ^_^ (sortof Internet without Internet connection )
Sushant
Posted 787 days ago 51How about watching TV
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Andrey
Posted 801 days ago 49Many thanks for the great article.
I would like to translate it to russian and post one in my blog on tutsshaker.com. Do you mind?
Thanks again.
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 800 days ago 50Just give credits to my article and original source and there will be no problems! :) Have a good day :)
Angelo Vanmarcke
Posted 802 days ago 48Great post!
Can’t think of anything more to add!
I’m not such a fan of learning videotutorials,
but from time to time, when I need a break away from my laptop,
I just go and play or have a little fun with my little brother.
He always has a great time, and likes it when there’s a break in the network…
bharani m
Posted 803 days ago 47nice post with lots of good ideas!
thanks for sharing.
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jack
Posted 804 days ago 45thanks, that was a nice post to go through, I look forward to reading more of your stuff
Dainis Graveris
Posted 804 days ago 46Nice to hear that!
Hermitbiker
Posted 807 days ago 44Some good advice for when that day of no internet service happens… or even when you want to strike out and try something different… offline !! :)
Dhirendra
Posted 809 days ago 43Great Idea !!
KAY
Posted 811 days ago 42Hey! Really good post. ..hoping to see that day come through with an internet connection. . .it’s just like life u know. Still good tip, thanks dude!
Badger
Posted 811 days ago 41Dainis, im a little amused that in this day and age that we (humans) have to make a list of things to do when we aren’t connected. I particularly find it shameful that there are people responding with ‘thats a good idea’ or words/feelings to that effect. Please everyone, that thing on your sholders is called a brain. Engage it sometimes.
Point 14: Dont use the internet/computer 1 day a week. Trust me, the world will not end.
Benjamin Rama
Posted 812 days ago 40nice post I have to go away this week so no blogging for me – but ill find a connevction plug back into the matrix duuude
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Phil
Posted 812 days ago 39I wouldnt be able to read this post if i had no internet connection 8)
Michelle
Posted 812 days ago 38been there and done it over the last six weeks :( I moved house and due to moving in to a new build meant I didn’t even have a phone line to the house yet. It’s been a total nightmare and I felt like I had lost an arm or something, or my air that I breath :) so yea I can relate to a lot of this post.
Ismail Mechbal
Posted 812 days ago 37Thanks for this list, well all i can say that being addicted to internet caused family problems to my life. So now i decided to not use internet at most when i come home from work and spend time with my family, reading, sport ….
Kate Mag
Posted 812 days ago 36This article inspired me to do things i never think i’ll do when i don’t have internet connection. Thanks
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Luis Lopez
Posted 815 days ago 35I understand you when you say you didn’t have internet, I was like that for almost a month (October) and at the beginning was difficult at the end I was really happy to do a lot of things, i hadn’t made in a lot of time.
Every moment is for living and enjoying so even without Internet there’s something to do.
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Gerard
Posted 815 days ago 34Would you believe that I have a really good contingency for whenever I have no internet? I keep a LAMP configuration running on my laptop so that I can tinker around with themeing and web development while I’m offline!
If I haven’t got THE web, I’ll make my own web, thanks very much :)
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seraphangel
Posted 815 days ago 33play games! games are a good source of inspiration as well :D and they’re enjoyable.
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Long Nguyen
Posted 815 days ago 32This is just sad. To be so dependent on the web is just sad.
George
Posted 816 days ago 31To me internet is like food…and on days when its not working life is really so boring..but this article has fed me with some new ideas…cleaning the workspace and desktop is the one thing i will need to do when internet is not working…
Thanks alot :-)