- Sit quietly and watch the clouds move for 30 minutes
- Listen to a different radio station everyday for a week
- Talk to an elderly person about the world of their youth
- Visit an ethnic grocery store you have never been to before
- Watch the Lawrence Welk Show and enjoy it!
- Go to a hardware store and look at tools and nails and bolts.
- Drive or walk in a part of your town or city you don't usually go to
- Watch MTV and enjoy it!
- Read the US Constitution
- Plant a tree or plant seeds in a pot and watch them grow
- Find opportunities to chat with folks of a different race, and enjoy it!
- Go dancing with friends and celebrate being alive
- Chant the letters of the alphabet, or vowels or simple sounds
- Donate your old magazines to a hospital, clinic, or nursing home
- Borrow clothes you would never wear from a friend, and wear them
- Listen to music you think you hate, and enjoy it!
- Go to an airport and spend a few hours really looking at people
- Visit a museum you have never been to, and enjoy it!
- Go to a tractor pull, car show, or motorcycle race and enjoy it!
- Spend a whole day at home alone, without radio, tv, or music
- Go to a store and try on clothes that remind you of anyone but you
- Pretend you believe the opposite of what you do, see what you learn
- If you are thin, put on large clothes & padding and go out fat
- Go to Yahoo's New Website Listings, and surf whatever comes up
- Visit a temple, church, or spiritual center you know nothing about
- Be curious and open-minded about other's beliefs
- Rent a movie documentary you think will bore you and enjoy it!
- Give up all your usual foods for a week and eat like someone else
- Go to a small town 2 hours from home & walk around main street
- Visit a Plant Nursery and look at tree, and notice their essence
- Do not go near a computer for 3 whole days, see what you learn
- Ask your relatives and friends about their happiest day as a child
- Look at your possessions, lighten up & let go of some by donating
- Flip open a Cookbook and cook whatever is on the page and enjoy it!
- If you like baths, take a shower, & vice versa enjoy the feeling!
- Visit a nursing home and volunteer to read to folks
- Walk around your own neighborhood and pretend you are a visitor
- Watch foreign language News Broadcasts and enjoy them!
- Really talk to kids, or rather let them talk to you about their lives
- Visit a homeless shelter, volunteer a few hours a week & enjoy it!
- Learn another language, or learn about another country
- Sing out loud and play with your voice like an instrument
- Discover holidays from cultures that aren't your own and enjoy it!
- Watch Pro Wrestling on TV and enjoy it!
- Explore genealogy boards & learn about ancestors from all culture
- Feed the ducks, pigeons, squirrels, or birds & imagine you are them
- Watch a full Moon move across the night sky and enjoy it!
- Fast for 3 days, drinking only juice, and enjoy it!
- Try to imagine what it feels like to be in another person's skin
- Practice conscious kindness every day, & dare to change who you are
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