For example, if you like to hike, pick a trail or mountain or nature preserve within an hour of your home that you have never been to before. Or design a 10-mile, full-day “hike” around your city or local area, including stops at friends’ houses, a fun restaurant or picnic spot, or other points of interest. Or investigate a ropes course or a rock-climbing wall.

If you like the theatre, take an acting class, go to a venue you have never been to before, or organize a reading of a favorite short play and assign each of your friends a part.  Give yourself permission to do something a little different.

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Pick one of these ideas and do it. Now, what did it feel like to be doing something familiar, yet new? Did it change the way you looked at other activities?

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What new people did you meet? What new things did you learn?
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