As always, if you have ideas that would be fun to add, please let me know.
The List: 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life by Gail Belsky
Get a tattoo, ride in a fire truck, or use food as foreplay—in short, get out there and shake things up! Fun, inspirational, and incredibly motivating, The List offers one hundred ideas—ranging from challenging to outrageous—for women who have been craving a little novelty in their lives.
With instructions and inspirational stories from women who have risen to the challenge, The List will excite, scare, and push readers to do something they’ve always dreamed of, or better yet, to do something they’ve never dared consider. Whether it’s writing a novel, running a marathon, or taking on a lover, The List delivers what many women are missing—taste of adventure and a light kick in the butt. (description from Amazon.com)
- Write a novel
- Do a triathlon
- Strip
- Catch a big fish
- Learn a foreign language
- Witness childbirth
- Join an ambulance crew
- Learn to surf
- Audition for something nerve-racking
- Join a relief effort
- Get a tattoo (or a piercing)
- Enter a poker tournament
- Run for office
- Brew your own beer
- Do a polar bear swim
- Drastically change your hairstyle
- Bake a wedding cake
- Go horseback riding, bareback style
- Launch your own website
- Join a cattle drive
- Build your own piece of furniture
- Organize a rally
- Get hypnotized
- Learn trapeze
- Go commando
- Visit an ashram
- Shoot a gun
- Record your own music
- Buy yourself a sex toy
- Take a lover
- Hike Machu Picchu
- Have nude pictures taken
- Have a cosmetic surgery procedure
- Drive over 100 miles per hour
- Learn an exotic dance
- Swim with sea creatures
- Dive off a cliff
- Sneak backstage
- Spelunk
- Create a sacred space
- Learn to sail
- Take up an instrument
- Leave your marriage
- Start your own business
- Ask someone out
- Make over a room
- Hire a personal shopper
- Make a big move
- Conquer a fear
- Skydive
- Eat something really weird
- Become a bartender or sommelier
- Tell someone to screw off
- Take singing lessons
- Switch careers/go back to school
- Learn to box
- Get a makeover
- Buy something outrageously expensive
- Escape (for the day, weekend, or week)
- Kiss a total stranger
- Bike across America
- play in the snow
- Ride in a fire truck
- Watch porn
- Skinny dip
- Break a long-held tradition
- Join the Peace Corps
- Plan a girls’ vacation
- Learn survival skills
- Paint your house a wild color
- Try high-stakes gambling
- Play ice hockey
- Throw an all-girls party
- Make a sex tape
- Learn to drive
- Lie about something
- Go topless
- Scuba dive
- Get a Brazilian wax
- Use food as foreplay
- start a charity
- Find love online
- Go to Burning man
- Plan and prepare a seduction dinner
- Quit smoking
- Read the classics
- Blow glass
- Get a pilot’s license
- Spend 24 hours in bed
- Lose 50+ pounds
- Take a year off
- Have a baby late in life
- Live with less
- Mount an art exhibit
- Find religion
- Bungee jump
- Sleep with a younger man
- Buy a negligee
- Blow off the day
- Make your own list
