10 Ways To Make Your Life Less Boring
It is too easy to find ourselves in a boring routine. Wake up at the same time every morning, burn the same toast, put on the same make up you wear everyday, wander out the door, count down the hours till work is over, go home and sit around in your sweats. You find yourself living a dull life without even realizing it. But why let it? Check out these tips to change your life from humdrum to fun!
1. Get a makeover
Fancy yourself a redhead? Ask your hairdresser for a dye, or try a semipermanent rinse at home. And what about your makeup? Book an appointment with a department store cosmetics specialist, and leave looking like a new person, even if you only actually buy a lipgloss.
2. Find a blast from the past
Stop wondering what happened to your best friend from primary school — track him or her down and find out. It could rekindle a great friendship!
3. Put your hand up
Give something back to the community by volunteering to help a charity. Deliver meals to the elderly with Meals on Wheels. Sign up as a Red Cross volunteer. Help your local Humane Society by cleaning, feeding and walking stray dogs.
4. Spice up your social life
Spend a night at a karaoke bar or theme park or line-dancing with a group of friends, and tighten your stomach muscles with all the laughing you’ll do.
5. Formalize your weight goal
Set on reaching a certain weight by your niece’s wedding or your partner’s 40th? Then try strategies to motivate yourself. List 10 things you’ll enjoy when you’re slimmer. Take two more walks a week. Drink one more glass of water per day.
6. Overdose on fresh air
Head to the park, but don’t languish on a picnic blanket — get moving! Ride a bike, feed the ducks, throw a Frisbee, walk your dog, play a game of tag or rent some inline skates.
7. Absorb more culture
Art and history can be good soul food — spend an afternoon at a gallery or museum catching the latest exhibition. Can’t be bothered fighting the crowds? Then check your local paper for smaller exhibitions at libraries or community centers.
8. Decode your dreams
Was that snake you dreamed of an omen of danger? Keep a dream diary by your bed to record your dreams right when you wake up. Then discover what your subconscious is telling you with a dream analysis book or by looking it up online.
9. Feel young again
Thumper in Bambi, Ariel in The Little Mermaid — recapture the wonder you felt watching them by spending an afternoon at a kids’ movie. If you don’t have kids of your own, offer to take your sister’s or friend’s children — they’ll love you for it.
10. Plan the ultimate party
Choose a theme: make it an evening of wine-tasting, a literary occasion, a “fortune-telling” night (organize a psychic to come and give readings) or a beauty session where you and your friends give each other manicures and pedicures while sipping Champagne.
