Book Giveaway: The List: 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life
Stuck in a rut? Try baking a wedding cake (number 17), creating a sacred space (number 40) or blowing off the day (number 99). Have some money to burn while you shake things up? Then try hiring a personal shopper (number 47), painting your house a wild color (number 70) or have a cosmetic surgery procedure (number 33). If you need to spark things up on the cheap, then maybe spending 24 hours in bed (number 89), kissing a total stranger (number 60) or living with less (number 93) is the way to go. , by Gail Belsky, offers 94 other ideas, ranging from serious to silly, for ways to jump start a slow day or a sluggish period in your life. I'll give away a copy of the book to one commenter who offers their own idea for shaking off the blahs. As for me, I'm off to join an ambulance crew (number 7)...
6 Comments:
Ideas to shake off the blahs:
visit the zoo
paint your toe nails bright blue
volunteer time in a homeless shelter
plant seeds in your garden
Cancel everything on your schedule for a day. Or a week.
Turn off the computer for a week.
Reserve a booth at a local market or fair. (No, I don't know what you're going to do with it. That's the part you have to figure out.)
Spend all day in a park.
Sleep somewhere unusual.
Go for a long walk.
Buy something silly.
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Bake a cake
Try a new recipe and set the table with your good china for no special reason
Shop at a local farmers market
Sing in the rain!
Start reading your old diary and just don't do any cooking,cleaning or housekeeping!
Also check your old albums and if you feel like it, upload all your recent photos to your FaceBook or flickr account!
Darci, you're the winner! send me your mailing address (carolinemgrantATgmailDOTcom) and I'll get the book to you.
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