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Shake Things Up If You Want to Live a Full and Rich Life
30 ways to break out of your routine and experience “enforced mindfulness”!
Do you feel like you’re in a rut? Are you doing the same things every day without any variation? If so, it’s time to shake things up!
Doing something new and different every day is a great way to experience life to the fullest. You’ll see new things, learn new things, and have more fun. It may be hard to break out of your routine at first, but you’ll never look back once you get started!
Have you ever noticed that time flies when you go on vacation? Once you get home, you feel like you did so much, had so many new experiences, and saw many new things? You “create memories” that will always stay with you.
Compare that to your daily routine. Because you tend to repeat your same patterns day in and day out, you’re not really “creating memories.” In fact, you probably have very little recollection of what you even did yesterday, as it’s the same as what you did the day before or on the same day last week.
The brain needs these habitual behavior patterns or routines because otherwise, you would be overwhelmed. If you had to think of every tiny step of your morning routine, how to brush your teeth, how to get dressed, you would…
