81 Ways to Live An Interesting Life

How do you live your life? Few things are as important as the way you live your life. Is your life interesting? Few things are as energizing as living an interesting life.Living an interesting life solves many problems, such as:

• Being bored
• Having nothing to talk about, no stories to share
• Loss of inspiration
• Lack of energy
• Living an unthoughtful life
• Going with the crowd, doing what everybody else is doing

When you intentionally pursue living an interesting life, things change. Suddenly you have stories to share, you learn new things, inspiration returns, and you live life and care for others with more zest. It's simple: Living an interesting life beats living an un-interesting life. Here are 81 ideas to get you started in living a more interesting life.

1. Talk to strangers.
2. Listen to your curiosity, see where it takes you.
3. Befriend someone who has a really hard life, love and serve them.
4. Get a new hobby.
5. Take a one-hour road trip to a place nearby that you've never been to.
6. Do something that scares you once a day, or at least once a week.
7. Face your fears. Quit running from them.
8. Start a new friendship.
9. Use a different mode of transportation to get around today: skateboard, public transportation, bike, walking, scooter, moped,  etc.
10. Listen to new music.
11. Confess what's really going on in your life to a trusted friend.
12. Be outside often.
13. Write poetry.
14. Get into a big political argument with someone sometime this week, preferably in a public place.
15. Swap houses with a friend for a week.
16. Quit "shoulding" all over yourself. Pay less attention to "shoulds" that don't really matter, and pay attention to interesting things you want to do.
17. Invent a game.
18. Lead something.
19. Don't read any books this year, instead devote the year to re-read your key reflections/takeaways from the books that have most influenced you over the past decade.
20. Don't allow utensils at the dinner table for a week. Make spaghetti for dinner.
21. Try to solve an unsolved mystery in your town.
22. Speak with an accent all day whenever you encounter strangers, see if they believe you.
23. Stop taking the path of least resistance.
24. Get really into an interesting show/documentary with a group of friends and talk about it.
25. Pull a prank on someone.
26. Forget yourself. Attempt the impossible: Don't think about yourself for a week.
27. Change your routine--wake up, commute, go to bed, etc. at different times.
28. Eat new types of food.
29. Give someone a surprise, out-of-this-world tip.
30. Start a doorbell ditch movement in your neighborhood.
31. Wherever you are, be all there. Live a life of being fully present.
32. Encourage somebody a minimum of once a day. Do it in person, through hand written note, text, email, or phone call.
33. Go deep in a particular subject--devote a month or three months to studying a subject that interests you through multiple mediums: books, film, conversations, etc.
34. Mix up your workout routine, do something totally different for two weeks.
35. Order a pizza to be delivered at a friend's house (be sure to pay in advance).
36. Periodically hang upside down or do a head stand and try to think through your problems from this different vantage point.
37. Make a sacrifice that nobody knows about to help achieve a great team goal.
38. Skip instead of walk.
39. Call everyone you've ever wronged and never apologized to, and tell them you are sorry.
40. Make a five minute movie (comedy, drama, action, or documentary), show it to your friends.
41. If you're right handed, try being left handed all day.
42. Have interesting friends.
43. Quit social media.
44. Start social media.
45. Swap cars with a friend for a week.
46. Laugh more. Develop your laugh.
47. Make up a new word, and try getting the people you work with/your friends to adopt the word.
48. Take voice lessons.
49. Learn in an area where you are historically very weak (if you're not "handy," learn how to build something).
50. Believe in God, trust his Word and promises, obey and follow him wherever he may lead you.
51. Perform your unique talent downtown. Keep at it until you've earned at least $5 in your tip jar.
52. Try contacting someone you really want to meet and learn from, track them down and ask them a few questions.
53. Say yes to some things you would normally say no to.
54. Say no to some things you would normally say yes to.
55. Create a new recipe/food dish, and promote it to others.
56. Give away more money.
57. Attempt bringing acid wash jeans back into style.
58. Start a side business.
59. Show up with donuts.
60. Help plant a church.
61. Visit every museum in your city.
62. Remember one or two things you loved to do as a kid and start adding those activities back into your life.
63. Start drawing your t0-do list, instead of writing your t0-do list.
64. Crank call someone (not sure how you do that with cell phones).
65. Sleep outside.
66. Subscribe to a new newspaper or magazine that comes at life from a different perspective, read cover to cover.
67. Learn a musical instrument.
68. Write down five big goals you really want to accomplish over the next two years and start working out your plan to achieve these goals.
69. Learn a new sport.
70. Don't watch TV.
71. Start a website.
72. Stop doing all the stupid stuff you do that wastes time, drains you of energy, and leaves you feeling blah.
73. TP a friend's house.
74. Smile more. Smile now.
75. Take up photography.
76. Spend an entire day in silence, see what you learn.
77. Watch all of the Dos Equis commercials, see what the most interesting man in the world can teach you.
78. Sell everything in your home that you don't love, need, or want. Use the money to do something interesting.
79. Buy a piece of art you love.
80. Make adult life feel more like college, try to bring a dormitory/frat house/team kind of feel to your neighborhood.
81. Quit playing it safe.

 What would you add to the list?