Remember: The first step to change your life is to understand there are no steps at all!
Hey everyone!
Here are 24 things I find worth exploring in the year 2024 (and beyond, why not!):
- Devices deserve dust. Throw your phone across the room; there’s no use in working your thumb mindlessly. Let your devices rest, gather dust, and maybe even rot in a drawer or somewhere else. Allow your brain and pocket to feel lighter.
- Make lists on paper. I love lists. Who doesn’t? Lists make everything organized if not easier. Going to the market? Make a list. Going to the bookstore? Make a list. This time on paper.
- Change the way you talk to yourself. Either don’t, or if you do, say something worth hearing.
- Crack jokes, even if they’re bad. It’ll teach you how to laugh at yourself.
- Avoid gossip. Make fun of yourself in groups, and know when and how to speak up for what is right.
- You are what you eat. Change what you eat slightly every other day, week, or month.
- Play chess more often.
- Sit and write whatever comes naturally. In any language, it doesn’t matter.
- Visit art galleries.
- Breathe. Realize you can’t do everything, but do something.
- Talk to strangers. Ask them their name. Discuss random things, etc.
- Draw. MAKE BAD DRAWINGS.
- Surround yourself with both good and bad books. Visit bookstores, libraries, and fairs. Explore what other people are reading on GoodReads. Don’t shy away from reading bad books too.
- Talk to people about what you are reading.
- Read multiple books at a time. Always keep a pile of new books ready before you finish one.
- I will not finish books I don’t like.
- Create stuff using whatever resources you have.
- Associate yourself with people who inspire you. Associations can be virtual as well.
- Practice saying “It is not for me.” Banish certain things/people and do not be afraid to do so.
- Make papercrafts or crafts in whatever form you can.
- Sit without a person/object for at least 15 minutes a day. Look inside yourself.
- Without music, there is no life. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music,” said Aldous Huxley.
- Start solving problems around yourself. It could be as basic as learning how to fix your computer or repairing broken objects around you. (And it was not a taunt on you!)
- PLAY more BADMINTON this year.
Thank you for reading my tiresome list. Hope you make many mistakes this year and have fun!