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Your step-by-step guide for when you you need to switch up the facemask routine.

Some essays are timeless, such as this one written by G.K. Chesterton on the topic of success.

Let's keep honing those survival skills! Follow this 18 video process and learn how to weave a large basket backpack.

Finished binge-watching your favorite shows and looking for something to do? Try one of these DIY projects. You can purchase all the materials online. To go a step further, think of one that you could easily ship to a friend to brighten his or her day during quarantine.

After two months of our stay-at-home order we may be losing some motivation. This article highlights interesting and useful ways we can become mentally rejuvenated to boost our motivation! Note: The New York Times is currently offering a $1/week subscription!

Start a new hobby and make art out of your favorite flowers or bouquets!

Need a change from music while you workout, cook, or unwind? Try out these carefully crafted episodes from the BBC's Radio 4 In Our Time podcast that has been running since 1998.

Discover fun and interesting new hobbies. Learn how to build a yurt! It's practical, time consuming, and useful for living off the grid (especially if society descends into chaos post coronavirus).

Listen to Pete Mockaitais interview leaders every week on his podcast “How to be awesome at your job.”

Since cleaning your house from top to bottom can be overwhelming — not to mention, time-consuming — take it room by room (or appliance by appliance) with these tried-and-tested spring cleaning tips.

It's good to have something to discuss outside of the virus! Reading helps us grow in understanding and allows us a chance to view situations through the lives of others - real or imaginary. Invite friends to discuss!

• The Power of Silence by Robert Cardinal Sarah

• Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy by Sigrid Undset

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Take this incredible free course offered by Yale on coursera!

Bring the thrill of a dog sled ride, the Northern Lights, and the Midnight Sun into your home.

We all know we need to drink more water. Don't get dehydrated during the quarantine.

https://www.lifehack.org/527558/10-infographics-that-help-you-drink-more-water-effortlessly

In this 20 min recording, Dr. Santos a Yale Professor of Psychology, answers questions and shares tips on how to prioritize your mental well-being during this challenging time, including:
• Staying connected while social distancing or sheltering in place
• Building healthy habits
• Managing anxiety around the pandemic

Take time to declutter your place, beginning with your closet.

Inspiration: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo Consider capsule-wardrobing

Find your next best read on this website that gives back when you buy new or used books. What better excuse to start that book you've been thinking about for the past few years!

Start touring HERE!

The nerdwriter is an excellent youtube channel that is made by Evan Puschak. He creates essays that comment on art and culture.

Sleep hygiene refers to sleep habits that make for a restful sleep. This article highlights 8 healthy habits to have better sleep.

If you want to know more about sleep and why it matters more than ever during coronavirus, listen to this amazing TED Talk with Dr. Math Walker, scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Live concerts, special exhibits, all free and accessible to you now! Take advantage.

Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall

Google Arts

Royal Opera House

Cultivate healthy habits to improve your mind & body wellness. Try adding one of these 12 tips to your routine this week and see how it boosts your health!

Check out the many devotionals and prayer journals from the ladies at Take Up And Read. Consider the Lillies is a favorite of MAP Director Molly Powers.

Has too much screentime due to work or leisure made you experience dry eyes or a foggy brain? This article gives some helpful tips to reverse all these symptoms!

Is happiness something we can control? Do some personal reflection and get a group of friends together to think about it.

Read Choosing Happiness or Listen to or read The Happiness Project

Free online Yale course “The Science of Wellbeing”

Miss your weekly Trivia Night with your friends? Start hosting your own with this easy Quarantine template based off Sporcle Live Trivia! Make a copy & check-out the example game for ideas. Remember, only the host should see the template during the game!

Just when you begin to feel pretty badly about being stuck inside, read (or listen to) Jeannie Gaffigan's funny tales of her own experience with a pear-sized brain tumor.

The festival has now decided to launch "Keukenhof Virtually Open," where it is sharing a series of videos showing what the grounds look like. Gardener Owen shows off the most beautiful hyacinths in the park in one video, while managing director Bart takes viewers to his favorite place in the park and gardener Daan shows Beach Garden, Mill Forest and the fountain.

Take some time to relax and enjoy the natural beauty of Kenai Fjords National Parks.

Read or re-read The Diary of a Young Girl and begin a journal to record your experience of being quarantined.