The Gary Fong Channel's video: Hi From Quarantine - Tips To Occupy Your Free Time

We all have ways of coping to this dramatic change of everything in our lives. I'm sharing some things that are helping me. One is journaling. I find that it's so important to journal during stressful times, because: 1) you don't exhaust your friends and loved ones with your ruminations, and 2) because someday later, you will look back and wonder why you had so many worries. I read my journal entries right after 9/11. I didn't know if planes were going to fall out of the sky, or if I should touch my mail as it might have Anthrax. Now, of course, we know that things came back to life, but we didn't know if/when/how long it was going to take then. So - check out the "daylio" app, where you can dictate your journal entries! 2) I find that this is a great time to learn new skills. If you want to work on learning a foreign language - google translate is AMAZING (as you'll see in this video). Just make a list of phrases that you want to "know" in a different language, speak into the app, and watch/hear the translation. Google translate also stores your entries, so you can practice. This is so much better than some of the learning courses that teach you how to say "the boy is under the table" (Berlitz). Someday later, we will forget the worry and the despair looking towards the future. We will look back to this isolation time and remember the good things, like how we only remember the best parts of a bad vacation. Journal this time, and do something really cool that expands your mind, and most of all - keeps you from thinking doomsday thoughts!