156. Use art to create a love statement for your significant other
Use pencils and crayons, water colors, white and colored paper sheets or canvas and draw, paint and write a graphic portfolio to gift your loved one as a token of your affection and devotion. Express your feelings, your fears or your expectations related to your relationship in a graphic shape that you created by yourself.
157. Create a DIY gift for your best friend
It doesn’t matter if it’s jewelry, a greeting card, a photo collage, a painted picture frame, an origami piece of art, a video montage or something that came out of your hands, talent and craft. Nothing says “I care for you” more than a DIY gift.
158. Take a vow of silence for a day
It is not that easy how it may seem at first, not being able to ask, answer or communicate with people, but it will improve your understanding over listening to them and will make you realize a lot of things about true communication.
159. Mentor somebody
If you’re really good at something, mentor a child or a younger person and pass on your knowledge and your values, giving that person wings to fly on his or her own and develop their own talents.
160. Invent a board game
You can use a theme from your favorite shows or movies, books or video games and start creating your own world with your own rules to play with the other fun people you have around.
161. Have your fortune told
Don’t spend too much money on this and don’t believe everything (or anything) you hear, but take part to some fortune telling session, in coffee, tea leaves, Tarot cards, crystal globe or anything else that appeals to you and resembles the fascination you get from books and movies when it comes to such supernatural happenstances.
162. Get friends with the bartender
Always envied those people who seem to be friends with a certain bartender in a joint they love and exchange the famous “Cheers” type humor and relationship? Always envied people entering in joints and just nodding to the bartender to receive their regular drink? Befriend your own bartender and feel home and welcomed every time you set foot there.
163. Change someone’s life for the better
Maybe one of the hardest things to do, but not impossible to achieve.
164. Have a complete lazy day
Stay in bed with a book, allow yourself some junk food that won’t kill you (and make sure you don’t eat it too much too soon), sleep, watch a movie, relax. Do it in the middle of the week after calling in sick at the office and don’t feel guilty about it!
165. Learn how to tell jokes
There are people who over the years became true joke encyclopedias, telling some with so much talent, one wonders how they didn’t think about switching to stand-up comedy for a career. Learn the best jokes out there, remember them and be the next funnies entertainer at a party.
166. Create a private Facebook event to ask somebody out
In the digital era, nothing might surprise you anymore. And in the dating world, few things are left undone. But how about asking somebody you like to go out on a date by creating a fun private Facebook event? The date will happen in real life, of course, just the invitation may be a little… different.
167. Spend a day in the city with zero money and have fun
It may be a lesson to value more the money you have, but it can be also a fun experiment. Travel by bicycle if you can, or by foot. Get lost in the streets of your city and admire the buildings and the landscapes. If you get hungry, visit some supermarkets, it’s impossible to not find promotions on food and lovely people offering you free food samples to taste. Same goes with sodas, but it’s recommended to drink fresh water from the potable water sources in the city. Go to the park and read a book under a tree, visit free museums or galleries, try to have a coffee “on wait” – which is also for free, enjoy a good day in the town’s square, watch people pass by and discover all the miniature architectural wonders around you.
168. Grow your own spices
If you’re a devoted cook, having fresh basil, rosemary, some chili peppers and other herbs and spices in the house is a dream came true. Build a vertical garden in the balcony or spread some pots around the house’s terrace and pick your own green leaves whenever you need to flavor your favorite dishes. Be.careful.what.other.green.leaves.you.think.it.would.be.fun.to.grow.
169. Write down your will and testament
Things might change over time, but write it down and see how things do change from one version to another.
170. Become a vegetarian / meat eater for one week
You can’t judge others without knowing what they are going through. So if you want to really experience their version of lifestyle, try it out for yourself. Only if it doesn’t endanger your health.
171. Quit a vice
No matter what it is, make an effort and quit it. One of the things to do once in a lifetime and for the rest of your entire lifetime.
172. Have that game nailed!
Perfect a bowling strike, a bull’s eye, the final snooker strike or the perfect combinations on Foosball. Practice a game until you master it and show everybody your secret moves to get that eight ball rolling!
173. See all the movies from a “best of” list
There are many such lists, compiled over the years. Pick the one you feel will give the best options to you and see them all. Write reviews and comments on specialized sites.
174. Learn how to make exotic cocktails
They always look awesome and always look complicated when the bartender does them for you. Learn your own recipes and surprise everybody with your skills.
175. Review a place
Since you traveled the world in a frenzy, take your time and write a review of the places you’ve seen, restaurants you ate in or hotels you spent the night at. Just as there is no writer without public feedback, there are no true touristic places without their recommendations. Write your own opinion so that others can get inspired by you.
176. Gather a team and play a sports that is not specific to your country
Learn a sports you like that is not common in your geographical area or country, teach your friends and play together. You’ll have the satisfaction of doing something few people know about.
177. Invent a new activity
Since you already experienced a lot of sports and crazy activities, why don’t you come up with your own? And since wife carrying and ironing also made it to world fame, why couldn’t your own sport to become the new attraction?
178. Take part in the NaNoWriMo
Always wanted to see if you could really write a book? The National Novel Writing Month event takes place annually, usually in November, and the challenge is for all new and established writers to put up a novel in a month. Now this is a hard challenge and few succeed, but the experience is thrilling!
179. Make good friends with somebody from another country
Again, Facebook doesn’t count. Keep in touch with that person, stay close, visit each other, make memories together.
180. Write an article for a publication
We also welcome guest bloggers and many important online magazines do too. Speak your mind about subjects of interest, come up with funny lists or articles, draw people’s attention to important matter or write about subjects you are really an expert on.
181. Photo document a day of your life
Many people are writing diaries, but not many put together photo journals. Instagram doesn’t count. Make an album of yourself captured in the dull, fun, weird, busy, lazy and interesting moments of your life. You can actually repeat that once in a while…
182. Make your own personalized T-shirt
Write down some pearls of wisdom that belong to you, or funny sayings that delighted all your close ones and wear them on your T-shirts. Who knows when you’ll become famous and trademark your own quotes?
183. Create your Family Tree
Learn everything there is to know about your family, their families and the ancestors and create your family tree so your children and your nephews learn who they are and where they come from.
184. Write nice messages on post its and spread them to strangers on the subway
There can be motivational quotes, pieces of uplifting poetry, small cute drawings with a positive message. If you’re shy about it, leave them under cars’ wipers or in people’s mail boxes. It will be your anonymous contribution to them having a good day.
185. Leave a stranger a book to read
Go to the park and leave on a bench a copy of one of your favorite books and write inside a message to whomever finds it. Restore your faith in humanity and hope the one who finds it will receive your message, read the book and maybe pass this habit forward so that more and more people find and donate books to the world.
186. Set up a treasure hunt for your significant other
Come up with clues to spread all over the neighborhood or the city, gather some friends to help you and get your partner to treasure hunt until he or she ends up at the deadline. You can do this only for fun of it, but you can turn the mystery treasure into a marriage proposal, a romantic dinner for two, a love statement or a gift he or she wanted for a long time.
187. Get a game of twister and play it at the park with complete strangers
Some people will take you for crazy, others will stay friends with you forever.
188. Choose a character from a movie or a book and live a day as if you were him/her
Dress – up is a must, but otherwise, your imagination is the limit. If you have some friends to help and find some proper locations to live your character’s life in them, it’s all for the better.
189. Choose a random flight and go
Now all our travel experiences so far led us to already established places we knew what to do in upon arrival. But how about just show up at the airport with the minimum back-pack, choose the next available flight and just go see what’s out there? Planning a trip is essential, being spontaneous about it is thrilling. This can be also done by choosing a random train or a random bus. Or a random drive destination, after you closed your eyes and just pointed a spot on the map. Go there!
190. Throw a masquerade party
Halloween doesn’t count. Gather your friends or family members, dress up like your favorite characters, stars or icons and throw a thematic party with corespondent music and snacks. It may be New Year’s Eve, a birthday party, a celebration of any sort or just another Saturday night gathering.
191. Dance around the house in your underwear
On your favorite music, each time you need to relieve stress, celebrate something or just feel good again about the world and yourself. Why in underwear? Because it’s liberating!
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192. Create and “End of Days” box
Take a cardboard box, a nice wooden treasure chest if you like, and gather there some objects that are truly important to you, significant for great life achievements, marks of incredible lifetime periods, memories and even gifts you received that you don’t want to lose or forget. Take a trip back on the memory lane and cherish your life with the help of stored photos, objects, tokens, souvenirs or other items that will tell you your life was great.
193. Learn to play pranks on friends
Just make sure you’ll still be friends afterwords. May it be April Fools Day or any other occasion, concoct a plan and a prank candid camera style and make memories forever with your friends or family members. You will need to learn to do some of the things that are about to come.
194. Catch the ball
If you’re a baseball fan, catching the ball and get it signed by a major player whom happens to be your sports hero is something to experience once in a lifetime. Glorious feeling, but depends much on luck. However, you should try improving your odds.
195. Try the Space Cookies. Once
Not that we would approve or agree to people getting alternate states of consciousness by using stuff that is almost illegal in almost all corners of the Earth, the Space Cookies are one of those things to try once in a lifetime.
196. Learn ASL (American Sign Language) basic signs
It will better help you communicate with the ones using it, but you will fully understand their world and how they express ideas and feelings when they don’t have the words for it. Not to mention you will look really cool in the eyes of your friends.
197. Learn body language signs
There are books and movie tutorials on the subject and if you were a fan of the regretted Lie to me show, you surely felt inspired on “reading” people’s behaviors, attitudes, feelings and intentions by decoding their secret body language and micro-expressions.
198. Practice Radical Honesty for a day
There is a difference between being cruel while insulting people gratuitously, and speaking the truth. Experiment this only with close friends and family who understands the experiment. On a larger scale, telling a woman she does indeed look fat in those jeans might throw you into the “Forever alone” universe. Radical Honesty is a way of living for many people and it’s a hard path, but no less liberating.
199. Get your life in shape
Throw away everything that makes you feel miserable, declutter, remove all the bad things surrounding you, learn how to breathe, find a better job, remember your life’s purpose, lose that weight you wanted to lose, get those healthy habits you always aimed for, don’t procrastinate any longer and reshape your life, becoming who you want to be.
200. Make a spontaneous compliment to a complete stranger
Some people don’t know how to make compliments and others who don’t know how to receive them. Some women are sick and tired to be picked up in the streets with all sorts of douche remarks. But making a real compliment to a stranger might be the best thing that ever happened to that person in a long time. And you’ll be happy you did something nice for somebody else.
201. Exchange vows with your partner in a unique manner
Write your vows on papers and send them onto the see as messages in a bottle, paint your vows on stones and bury them in your favorite place, create tokens for one another and keep them forever, write each other a poem or compose a song that express your pledge to eternal love.
202. Learn most weird (and functional) home remedies and tricks
In a world where technology seems to rule over our lives, we usually forget that the simplest solutions are the ones that have been around for eons. So learn how garlic can save a cracked piece of glass, how you can clean spots with toothpaste or dry your smartphone with rice (in case it falls into water). HERE is where you can start your learning.
203. Learn cooking chemistry
It’s one thing to cook well, to learn to cook, to make some odd dishes and even try eating raw food, but there’s another if you’re really into cooking and you care when and how to add the spices to a soup, how come blue cheese goes great with chocolate or why the peanuts are addictive. You can start your journey into this fascinating world HERE.
204. Experience hypnotic trance
You need to be prepared for this and really have a good reason to subject yourself to this, but depending on what are your needs and our motivations, regressive hypnosis is not something to play with, while there are some Psychology teachers out there who can make you cough every time you read your wristwatch. There are experimental groups that can guide you through the process.
205. Organize a club
Weird or serious, gather people with common interests and passions and make a club: book lovers, art collectors, Doctor Who fans, it doesn’t matter as long as you have fun together. Organize events, expand your horizons and learn new things every day.
206. Go back to your old school
And thank your favorite old teachers for the person you’ve become also thanks to them. Talk to some children there and remind them how important education is.
207. Take an orphan child into care for the holidays
Give an orphan a chance to feel the holiday’s spirit with people who have warmth in their hearts and appreciate everything that is good about their lives.
208. Have your own family
Maybe the biggest challenges of them all. Some people want this from the bottom of their hearts, while others resent the idea or don’t come to terms with it yet. But if you’re from the first category, having a child and spending times as a family with your loved ones may be sometimes the most beautiful thing that we can experience in our lifetime.
Sammy says
I would say that is a list full of surprises. Who does not want to live his life without regrets? Too bad that we are stopped, usually by many things like money, family and sometimes even by ourselves and our own conceptions.