[tcb] Re: Fall funk
- From: Bill <bbauer2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 18:49:54 -0600
3 Dozen Ways to Get Out of a Rut Body:
Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over
again expecting different results.
If you find yourself in that place where the results you’ve been getting
are not solving the problem or helping you achieve your goals, you need to
do something different.
If the challenge of doing something different is a bit beyond your grasp,
here are 36 ideas to help you “jump the tracks” and encounter something new!
1. Go to the nearest newspaper/magazine stand. Buy a dozen magazines. None
should be ones you usually read. Spend the better part of a day flipping
through them. Tear pages out. Paste them to a posterboard. Circle
interesting items. Make notes.
2. Go onto the Internet. Visit a dozen sites you haven’t visited before.
Follow any link that is even the least bit intriguing. Subscribe to some
email lists on subjects you know nothing about.
3. Leave work early Wednesday afternoon. Visit the closest mall and wander
around for an hour. Make notes about what you like and dislike. Products,
merchandising, whatever you encounter.
4. Buy a package of 3 x 5-inch index cards and carry them with you. Use
them to make notes of whatever catches your attention. Do it for a week and
review your observations.
5. Plan on taking a different kind of vacation – detail everything from the
place you stay to how you get there and what you’ll do there. If you’ve
never cruised before—book a cruise. Never camped out? Rent a camper.
6. Look through your list of contacts. Find the person you haven’t spoken
with in the longest time. Call her/him and invite her/him to lunch. Go to a
restaurant you’ve never been to before.
7. Once a month, pick a name of someone interesting you’ve lost touch with.
Take her/him to breakfast or coffee. Let them choose the place.
8. Tomorrow, after work, go home via a route you’ve never taken before.
Really go out of your way to cover new territory.
9. Going out on Saturday night? Go to a place you’ve never been before.
Maybe go there with people you’ve never gone out with before!
10. Having a dinner party? Invite somebody you’ve never invited before. And
be sure to serve something you’ve never made before.
11. Locate your local Community College. Get a course catalog. Pick a
couple of interesting courses you’ve always wanted to know more about and
sign up.
12. Read a provocative article in a blog you’ve never read before. E-mail
the author. See what happens.
13. At your local school or charity and get involved in their latest
fundraising campaign.
14. Volunteer to talk to a public school class about a topic about which
you are knowledgeable.
15. A chance to work with a group of people you’ve never worked with before
comes up. Take the assignment no matter how little it pays or how
inconvenient it may be.
16. You’re really upset about the state of your neighborhood. Get involved
in the neighborhood association. Join your HOA.
17. Even if you aren’t interested in changing jobs, go to the next job fair.
18. Your child’s school is looking for chaperones for the field trip.
Volunteer to go along.
19. Sit down with your spouse/significant other and make a list of three
things you’ve “been meaning to do” . . . then come up with a plan for doing
at least one of them in the next six months.
20. Institute a monthly Lunch & Learn. Encourage all your colleagues to
nominate interesting people to be invited. Teach each other interesting
subjects – not work related. Invite guests from outside to speak.
21. In your alumni magazine, you read about a classmate who’s doing
something unusual with his or her life. Call him or her tomorrow and make a
plan to get together.
22. Call the wisest person you know. Ask her/him to lunch. Ask her/him if
he or she would be willing to sit with you for a couple of hours every
three months to talk about what you’ve done and where you’re going.
23. Become a Scout troop leader. Teach a Merit Badge class.
24. Go to the beach and build a sand castle. Stay long enough to have it
get washed away by the rising tide.
25. Set your alarm clock for an hour earlier than usual. Take a walk around
the neighborhood and watch the sun rise. Listen to the sounds of the city
as it wakes up and gets busy.
26. Attend the next large convention that comes to town. Be sure to go to
the exhibit hall and collect a lot of brochures, business cards and free
samples from every booth. When you get home, review all of your goodies and
think how they relate to your life.
27. Read every word of the package insert of one of the medicines you
take. See if you can understand what it is saying. Think about what it says
and why they are telling you this information.
28.Visit your local television station and watch the taping of a show.
Observe all of the action that goes on around and behind the on-camera
scene.
29. Go to the nearest body of water, whether it is a river, lake, stream or
ocean, and take off your shoes and socks and wade in the water for a while.
30. Visit a dozen open houses this weekend. Try going to several different
neighborhoods. Notice the style of architecture and furnishings. Gather the
sales materials and compare them with each other.
31. Go on a garage sale scavenger hunt. Set aside three hours on Saturday
to drive all around to various garage sales and collect something totally
mundane and inexpensive.
32. Go to the lobby of a major hotel. Sit there for a while and observe the
people coming and going. Make up stories about the people that explain
their actions.
33. Shop at a different supermarket this week. Push the cart up and down
every isle. Make a note of all the differences. Notice the similarities,
too.
34. Tune into a different radio station on your drive to and from work. If
you listen to music, turn to an all news format. (Vice versa for you other
folks!)
35. Test out all of the coffeehouse stores in a radius of 3 miles from your
office. Make a chart that allows you to rate the taste, selection, price,
atmosphere, and décor on a scale of 1 to 10.
36. Go to a 99-cent style store and buy as much non-perishable food items
as you can for $10.00 – really try to stretch it. Then donate your
purchases to a homeless shelter.
The idea behind all of these ideas and exercises is to get out of your rut,
to break free of the same old same old.
To gain a new perspective on the way the world around you lives. And gain
insight into your own life.
In every activity, be sure to reflect on how you FEEL as you are in the
middle of it.
And later, reflect on your feelings. If you experience some discomfort
from being in a new place and doing something you’ve never done before,
that is to be expected. It’s okay.
In fact, it’s a good thing. If you like to write, be sure to keep a journal
or blog about your experiences.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:48 PM, sammie smith
<bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Maybe we could build a pipeline and divert the White River to Texas.
>
> --- On *Wed, 11/9/11, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Fall funk
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 5:41 PM
>
> It won’t stop raining up here. We had about 4” yesterday that was not
> in the forecast.
>
>
>
> *From:* tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *chuck
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:22 PM
> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: Fall funk
>
>
>
> That don't count. That was just the usual tcb camping deluge.
>
> oleblue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Brad
> Tripp<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bradtripp@xxxxxxx>
>
> *To:*
> tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:17 PM
>
> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: Fall funk
>
>
>
> Chuck you must have Alzheimers, Remember
> t@p<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=t@p>a few weeks ago. 4
> inches....Brad
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:35 AM, chuck
> <sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
> It's so quite here that I think everyone is dead.At least there could be
> some hints on wiring your heater in the on position for winter.how about
> fixing the windshield wipers.Oh I for got it hasn't rained in Texas since
> the beginning of the latest depression.Some times the is dew on the window
> so make sure that you at least have a roll of paper towels stashed close by.
>
> I think I am at the beginning of my annual late fall funk.
>
> oleblue
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