101 Ways to Be Spontaneous, Take Chances,
Challenge Yourself, Live Your Life, and/or Try Something New
This list includes advice and bucket list ideas that can give you inspiration. I've been living my life like this in the past year, and I've found that I am incredibly happy for it. I hope you get something out of it as well.
- Go skydiving
- Bungee jump
- Watch a horror film
- Try a new hairstyle
- Check out a different religion
- Attend events
- See a play/ musical performance
- Go skinny dipping
- Make a bucket list and try to cross some things off
- Travel
- Kiss in the rain
- Read a classic
- Order something new at the coffee shop
- Take a new route to work
- Change up your routine
- Join a club or other group
- Volunteer somewhere new
- Clean out your room/house and let some things go
- Take a bubble bath
- Pick up an instrument
- Go on a date with someone you wouldn't normally consider
- Start a collection
- Write something
- Take pictures/photographs
- Change your wardrobe
- Create art
- Look up things to do in your town
- Get a tattoo
- Pierce something
- Replace your eye glasses with a bolder pair
- Get a free makeup makeover
- Go out and do something with friends
- Say yes!
- Do something you would regret not doing
- Road trip
- Do a high ropes course and/or rock climb
- Go camping last minute
- Do a music exchange
- Job shadow somewhere you've never considered
- Go garage sale-ing
- Exercise
- Run in an organized 5k (or farther)
- Take the lead
- Send a postcard
- Start a journal to someone else
- Get feedback
- Wear a bikini (if you usually don't)
- Splurge once in a while
- Create an inspiration board, or use Pinterest
- Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day
- Go to Cedar Point and ride everything
- Ride on a train
- Participate in a cancer walk
- Fall in love
- Go to a drive-in movie theater
- Donate your hair
- Sleep outside
- Live someone else's life for a day
- Stargaze
- Take a class
- Attend a concert for someone famous
- Meet someone famous
- Try new foods
- Learn about a different culture
- Explore everything
- Don't be afraid to try everything once
- Bend the rules
- Be open to new ideas
- Make sure you're doing something that makes you happy
- Go on a cruise
- Buy guidebooks for a place you might want to go in the future
- Study abroad
- Make a list of places you want to go someday
- Be optimistic
- Give back
- Use a new paint color in your home
- Have sex in new places
- Act like a child (build a blanket fort)
- Have a paint war
- Get a pedicure
- Go to the zoo
- Appreciate the little things
- Learn from your mistakes
- Play a sport
- Speak in public
- Look around an adult store
- Set goals
- Keep a sketchbook
- Build something
- Pretend you're observing something for the first time
- Play in the rain at night
- Go to a club and dance in public
- Try karaoke in a bar or restaurant
- Fall asleep with someone you care about
- Collect quotes and live by them
- Think creatively
- Do somebody a favor
- Plant something
- See the beauty in ordinary things
- Make a difference
- Love your life
Only do things that you're comfortable with. Be safe and be smart. Part of the idea is to do something you wouldn't normally do, but if you feel it has no possibility of improving your life, skip it. Maybe you'll reconsider in the future.
Update:
102. Lie in the middle of the road at night (and watch the streetlights change)
103. Dance to the music in your head with another person
Can you think of any others?
Update:
102. Lie in the middle of the road at night (and watch the streetlights change)
103. Dance to the music in your head with another person
Can you think of any others?
Learn a musical instrument
ReplyDeleteWrite a song
Get in shape
Complete a triathlon
Visit all 50 states
Save a life