Day #24 - Parkour, anyone?

Theme

Parkour, anyone?

Description

Underwater basket-weaving, Pineberries, Guitar-Hero, Chocolate Bacon, Oriental Flower Arranging, Chicken & Waffles, Race Car Driving, Dee-Fried Twinkies, Bollywood Dancing, Hot Beef Sundae, Race-Car-Driving, Krispy Kreme Chicken Sandwich, Skeet-Shooting, Spam Curds, Yagli Gures (Turkish Oil Wrestling martial art), Fried Butter.... try something new!

To Do

Tackle your fear of the unknown by branching out... with relish!

Nourish Yourself

Learn a new kitchen skill or how to prepare a new dish.  Ever wanted to master the souffle? Or make your own sushi?

Get Up & Go!

Same goes with exercise -- has there ever been an activity you flirted with but just never committed to trying?  What about English Riding lessons, or Squash, or scuba diving?... I’m afraid Quidditch is not an option for most of us

Tools

A sense of adventure and willingness to learn.  Your local Parks & Rec department may have introductory classes into a variety of neat things, and at a very reasonable cost and time investment

Tip

A fun way to learn about new ideas and activities is to talk to people who are involved in them.  They were new at some point too!

Tweak

Find an unobtrusive new interest to incorporate into your overall lifestyle

Question

What is the number one thing you have always wanted to try or do? Is there something near the top of your list that you could embark on now?

Thought

“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” - Louis E. Boone

"Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not." - Virgil Garnett Thomson

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky

Tidbit

Here is a fun To Do List (based on & added to from http://www.grantthorpe.com/100-things-to-do.htm):

100 Things to Try Before You Die

1. Swim with a dolphin
2. Skydive
3. Spend the whole day naked
4. Watch the launch of the Space Shuttle
5. Walk the Great Wall of China
6. Listen to the Dalai Lama Speak
7. Ride a camel in the desert
8. See the Northern Lights
9. Learn to ethnic dance (bellydance, Tahitian, etc)
10. Write the novel you know you have inside you
11. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia
12. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home
13. Learn to play a musical instrument
14. Work a shift in a soup kitchen
15. See a lunar eclipse  
16. Sleep under the stars
17. Touch a wild animal
18. View the Tournament of Roses Parade in person
19. Learn to juggle
20. Learn to ride a unicycle
21. Drive a convertible with the top down in the rain
22. Grow your own vegetables
23. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty
24. Give a speech in public
25. Go on Safari

26. Ascend in a hot-air balloon
27. Give to a charity - anonymously
28. Make love on the kitchen floor
29. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch
30. Blog
31. Go spelunking
32. Invent something
33. Create your own web site
34. Go to a live show on Broadway
35. Create your Family Tree
36. Kiss under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice
37. Kiss under a waterfall 
38. Walk to the crater of a volcano
39. Run a marathon
40. Make a hole in one (miniature gold counts)
41. Learn to bartend

42. Bungi Jump
43. Visit the Holy land
44. Have your portrait painted
45. Be an extra in a film
46. Attend at least one major sporting event: The Olympics, The World Cup
47. Go skinny-dipping in the ocean
48. Learn to speak a foreign language
49. Go sailing alone
50. Send a message in a bottle
51. Be a member of the audience at a TV show taping
52. Travel around the world
53. Plant a tree
54. Witness the birth of a baby
55. Go on vacation alone
56. Be someone’s mentor
57. Sit on a jury
58. Judge a competition
59. Do a Ropes Course
60. Visit a rain forest
61. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich
62. Spend a day at Disneyland being a kid
63. Experience weightlessness
64. Drive across the country from coast to coast
65. Go scuba diving
66. Visit new York
67. Go Repelling 
68. Fly First Class
69. Go Whale watching

70. Draw on a wall
71. Set off a fire extinguisher
72. Win an Award
73. Win a trip
74. Wait in line for something overnight
75. Fly a kite
76. Celebrate New Years Eve in Times Square 
77. Learn to surf
78. Be interviewed on TV
79. Stage Dive
80. Release an Album
81. Participate in a protest
82. Ride in a military jeep
83. Be debt-free
84. Sponsor a child
85. Have a coffee on the sidewalk in Paris
86. Touch one of the Royal family
87. Visit ground Zero
88. Visit Area 51
89. Teach someone illiterate to read
90. Visit Machu Picchu
91. Go white-water rafting
92. Go to a Wagner opera
93. Become proficient at a video game

94. Have tea and crumpets in England
95. Be a dinner guest at The White House
96. Audition for a role in a play
97. Call into a radio show
98. Sing a solo in public for paying audience
99. Go streaking
100. Face a long-standing fear or phobia

(I ticked 61 off this list to date.... what might you add to the list?)

Treat

Do one of the things on YOUR list

Blogs & Articles

Trying New Things: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in-world/201004/trying-new-things

In Sum

Just do it!