1. Meditate, focusing purely on your breath or try guided meditation.
2. Travel solo or with friends to explore this world!
3. Read something you fancy.
4. Watch TV at home with some popcorn at hand.
5. Watch movie in cinema.
6. Do some stretches.
7. Act out a scene from your favourite movies.
8. Cook yourself or your family a meal.
9. Treat yourself a nice meal with your friends at a restaurant.
10. Go for bungee-jumping.
11. Take your free time to go somewhere alone to enjoy some time with yourself.
12. Go escape park/ breakout/ mission Q etc. with your friends.
13. Connect with your close ones through text messages or phonecall.
14. Take time to do some reflection (eg. forgive yourself and others)
15. Give yourself some self facial massage.
16. Learn a new language.
17. Go shopping or window shopping.
18. Check out the latest fashion trends and try to create your fashion style.
19. Try out different hairstyles on yourself from the online tutorials
20. Watch some pranks/vlogs/random videos on youtube.
21. Go gym for a workout.
22. Have a quick nap.
23. Cook a larger portion of healthy foods and store it for the next few meals.
24. Have some healthy snacks.
25. Do some yoga, taichi, qigong to reconnect with oneself.
26. Write a letter to someone who means a lot to you.
27. Do a random act of kindness.
28. Ask your best friends some random questions to get to know them better.
29. Find a part time job to earn extra income.
30. Doing volunteer for a good cause.
31. Teaching and sharing knowledge with others.
32. Learn to cook.
33. Make yourself a smoothie.
34. Clean the house.
35. Go for sauna.
36. Drink honey and lemon water for at least 21 days.
37. Sunbath.
38. Go hiking.
39. Clean your cars/motorbike.
40. Watch a drama/TV series you like.
41. Having sleepover parties.
42. Have a BBQ party.
43. Wishing your friends happy birthday. (in a month, most of us would have at least one friend having birthday, be sure to show your care.)
44. Talking to strangers.
45. Trying out photography and take some beautiful portraits or sceneries.
46. Write a short story.
47. Talk to yourself like you are your own best friend. (We talk to ourselves all the time in our heads)
48. Dance to some musics however you like.
49. Sing like no one is listening.
50. Visit a pet shop.
51. Go jumpstreet and enjoying some jumping fun.
52. Express your gratitude to yourself and others in your life.
53. Aim for the right timing and take the risk to confess to the one you love.
54. Sleep before midnight and wake up before sunrise.
55. Go for a full body massage/ reflexology for relaxation.
56. Buy something for your family and friends without special events like their bdays, christmas etc.
57. Have a pillow fight with your siblings or close friends.
58. Scream out loud into your pillow.
59. Donate a little out of monthly salary to help out those who are less fortunate.
60. Find out the purpose of life, why are you here on this planet?
61. Learn photography skills.
62. Soak in warm bath with some soothing musics.
63. Smile to strangers on the road.
64. Write a script about your past and act it out with yourself playing different roles or friends.
65. Create a youtube channel.
66. Compose a song.
67. Learn some musical instruments, (piano, guitar, drums, bass etc.)
68. Take a video of yourself and talk like your favourite youtuber.
69. Give sincere compliments to the people in real life or the virtual world.
70. Write down a to-do list for today and prioritize.
71. Do something out of your comfort zone or those things you procrastinate.
72. Have a camping trip.
73. Go to the beach and enjoy building some sandcastles.
74. Take life less seriously - have a great laugh now even for no reason. Life is fun.
75. Draw.
76. Visit a theme park/animal park/ museum.
77. Go to a coffee shop alone and take a moment to enjoy a hot cup of coffee.
78. Think about the things that have made you feel love, grateful, proud and touched.
79. Create your life motto and live by it.
80. Plant some flowers/trees and watch it grow starting from the seeds.
81. Create a blog and write what you are passionate about.
82. Check all the social media only for 1-2hours per day and use the remaining time to do something else.
83. Try out some personal training program to get fit.
84. Ask your parents about how was their past like and learn from their experience of life.
85. Go for seminars/talk about topics that interest you.
86. Record your own voice and try not to hate it.
87. Create a living space that will bring you inspiration and motivation everyday (sticky notes with quotes written on it etc.)
88. Read some quotes that is related to the problems you are facing now to change the mindset that is stuck in that moment. (fear of judgement, fear of failure etc.)
89. Create a playlist in youtube with all the songs you love.
90. Be a collector. Collect stamps from different countries, collect soft toys)
91. Visualization. Visualize yourself in one of your favourite places feeling good. Engage five sense to get a deeper experience from it.
92. Hug yourself and pat yourself on the back for the good job well done so far.
93. Do self inquiry, put negative beliefs on a paper and eliminate it by finding contradictory evidence in real life that opposes those beliefs.
94. Listen to music. Be open minded to try out different genres of music and even music of different languages.
95. Do nothing and just be.
96. Commit at least 1-2 hour everyday to do something that you know if you do it consistently enough, it would help move you closer to your dreams.
97. Lend a listening ear and tell your friends that you will be there when they need you.
98. Go out for a jog in the park.
99. Look up to the sky and imagine different things according to the shapes of the clouds.
100. Cutting hair for your family and friends, or even yourself.
101. Join a club around your community. (Toastmasters, dance club etc.) - meetup.com
102. Engage in creativity activity - art and craft. (Art attack maybe?)
103. Going to a local library.
104. Set up your camera with a tripod and do a self photo shoot.
105. Learn some pose when it comes to taking photo. - take note especially of the angle, your chin. (It will come in handy)
106. Create a video for someone's birthday.
107. Organize a gathering with old friends.
108. DIY a wrist band.
109. Prank. (But no harming should be involved. ) learn some pranks from youtuber: jstustudios - They have good pranks without hurting anyone.
110. Try out the 30day challenge for fitness/sleeping early/healthier diet plan.
111. Learn all the swimming strokes - backstroke, breast stroke, butterfly, freestyle etc.
112. Learn basic survival skills.
113. Aim for 7-8hours of sleep per night. Try out the 4.30am challenge, some people felt their quality of life and productivity improved when they wake up earlier.
114. Think of where you will be - 1 year - 10 years from now.
115. Head to a water park and enjoy some fun with the slides. e.g. Sunway Lagoon.
116. Be compassionate and non-judgmental towards others. Sometimes its not the actions that we should put so much attention on, but the intention - why someone do what they do.
117. Introduce some freshness into your daily routine - brush your teeth with non-dominant hand, driving a new route to work, prepare some breakfast which differs from the usual.
118. Take a photo of yourself annually or even on a monthly basis and see how you change every year. After every 10 years, you would be surprised to look at how your younger self have changed over the years.
119. Collect seashells from the seashore and build a sandcastle.
120. Sleep a day without air-conditioner (for hot climate countries).
121. Go to 7cups.com to be a listener to help out others !
122. Listen to songs that is out of your usual genre.
123. Donate stuffs that you no longer need to those in need.
If you have any more ideas of what else to do that you would like to add into the list, please do let me know. :)
Friday, 18 March 2016
Friday, 19 February 2016
10 life lessons I learned this 1 month holiday break
Finally, my 1 month holiday is coming to an end with only about a week left, and its time to get back to uni to start getting busy.
During this break, I have taken some time to do self-inquiry and reflection about more of what life is all about. I don't wish to get deep into this, as recently I think that life doesn't require so much analysis. I was once so into self-help or personal development stuffs by reading tons of materials about it. And I realize that I have been missing out on life. Doing some self-reflection for a short time can be great, but spending way too much time to figure about life is just a waste of the precious time. To sum up what I learned throughout my pursue towards a better version of myself is that life is all about experience. And its a cycle of learn and move on. However, if we choose to hold onto the past and not moving on with life, we will suffer.
Not forgetting those awesome people that I went out together (or those that we interact virtually) this holiday, it was a blast being with them ! Each of them are unique with their expressions and I learn to love them equally as the person they are without imposing on them my expectations of what a friend should be like. I learned the most when I am going out with my friends. They helped me to change my fixed perspective on certain aspects of life and broaden my views about how exciting this world is.
And some lessons I learned recently this holiday:
Life lesson 1
When we are upset by the action of others, it is still not about them. It is never about them. It is about who we are believing them to be. Its our perception of who they are, and it can be true or false.
Life lesson 2
Ultimately, the relationship we are going to have is the relationships we have with our thoughts.
How do we react when we see others to be unkind, uncaring, manipulative? We may build up our defense systems and start building the "protective" barrier to prevent ourselves from getting hurt. Separation occurs and we no longer feel connected with others.
If we truly want to connect with others, we need to listen carefully to what others say or perhaps beyond it - We thought that they are trying to hurt us with their words, but sometimes they are just being honest in their expressions without the intention of hurting us.
Life lesson 3
One person may not want to be involved in your life, that doesn't mean others won't. Instead of getting angry or frustrated being ignored or rejected, use that as a burning fuel to strive towards a better you.
Life lesson 4
We hate it when other people's truth doesn't match with ours. As much as we hate it, there sometimes can be some substance behind what a person believes in. Be open minded and see what opinion the other person has to offer.
Life lesson 5
The world is a dynamic place where anything could go right and wrong. There is no certainty or fixed outcome. No one would know what would happen the next moment. And that is the exciting part about life - the unknown.
Life lesson 6
You don't need to be totally free of fear to try new things in life. You have got to decide that you want it more than you are afraid of the fear(eg. wanting the experience more than the fear) Be strong about your intention of why you are trying the new things, that could be the strongest factor to motivate you to continue exploring the new.
Life lesson 7
Don't be sad about your losses and waste time on thinking so much about it, keep forging forward and something good will come to fruition.
Life lesson 8
Changing people, places or things is impossible and hopeless! Let them be. We can offer people help to change for the better, but ultimately we should always respect the decision of how they want to live their life.
The only person we can change is ourselves - the way we choose to perceive or respond to certain incidents in life. (Realize how hard it is for others to convince us to change our fixed belief.)
Life lesson 9
Life is so much more fun without needing to analyze every seconds of it.
Life lesson 10
When we put ourselves out there in this world, whether we are performing in front of the world or seeking for love etc., we are taking the risk of our audience not responding in the way we opt for. Any failures, rejections, divorce should only be looked at as one event in life, and never our whole life. Get out and get "crushed"! And build yourself up again into a stronger version than before with the shattered pieces - we are stronger than we think.
Additional: Be grateful. For all the people and all the events in your life. Cherish those who you love and those who love you. Group hug everyone!
Till then, take care beautiful people!
During this break, I have taken some time to do self-inquiry and reflection about more of what life is all about. I don't wish to get deep into this, as recently I think that life doesn't require so much analysis. I was once so into self-help or personal development stuffs by reading tons of materials about it. And I realize that I have been missing out on life. Doing some self-reflection for a short time can be great, but spending way too much time to figure about life is just a waste of the precious time. To sum up what I learned throughout my pursue towards a better version of myself is that life is all about experience. And its a cycle of learn and move on. However, if we choose to hold onto the past and not moving on with life, we will suffer.
Not forgetting those awesome people that I went out together (or those that we interact virtually) this holiday, it was a blast being with them ! Each of them are unique with their expressions and I learn to love them equally as the person they are without imposing on them my expectations of what a friend should be like. I learned the most when I am going out with my friends. They helped me to change my fixed perspective on certain aspects of life and broaden my views about how exciting this world is.
And some lessons I learned recently this holiday:
Life lesson 1
When we are upset by the action of others, it is still not about them. It is never about them. It is about who we are believing them to be. Its our perception of who they are, and it can be true or false.
Life lesson 2
Ultimately, the relationship we are going to have is the relationships we have with our thoughts.
How do we react when we see others to be unkind, uncaring, manipulative? We may build up our defense systems and start building the "protective" barrier to prevent ourselves from getting hurt. Separation occurs and we no longer feel connected with others.
If we truly want to connect with others, we need to listen carefully to what others say or perhaps beyond it - We thought that they are trying to hurt us with their words, but sometimes they are just being honest in their expressions without the intention of hurting us.
Life lesson 3
One person may not want to be involved in your life, that doesn't mean others won't. Instead of getting angry or frustrated being ignored or rejected, use that as a burning fuel to strive towards a better you.
Life lesson 4
We hate it when other people's truth doesn't match with ours. As much as we hate it, there sometimes can be some substance behind what a person believes in. Be open minded and see what opinion the other person has to offer.
Life lesson 5
The world is a dynamic place where anything could go right and wrong. There is no certainty or fixed outcome. No one would know what would happen the next moment. And that is the exciting part about life - the unknown.
Life lesson 6
You don't need to be totally free of fear to try new things in life. You have got to decide that you want it more than you are afraid of the fear(eg. wanting the experience more than the fear) Be strong about your intention of why you are trying the new things, that could be the strongest factor to motivate you to continue exploring the new.
Life lesson 7
Don't be sad about your losses and waste time on thinking so much about it, keep forging forward and something good will come to fruition.
Life lesson 8
Changing people, places or things is impossible and hopeless! Let them be. We can offer people help to change for the better, but ultimately we should always respect the decision of how they want to live their life.
The only person we can change is ourselves - the way we choose to perceive or respond to certain incidents in life. (Realize how hard it is for others to convince us to change our fixed belief.)
Life lesson 9
Life is so much more fun without needing to analyze every seconds of it.
Life lesson 10
When we put ourselves out there in this world, whether we are performing in front of the world or seeking for love etc., we are taking the risk of our audience not responding in the way we opt for. Any failures, rejections, divorce should only be looked at as one event in life, and never our whole life. Get out and get "crushed"! And build yourself up again into a stronger version than before with the shattered pieces - we are stronger than we think.
Additional: Be grateful. For all the people and all the events in your life. Cherish those who you love and those who love you. Group hug everyone!
Till then, take care beautiful people!
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