Decide to create one…or more…challenges. What would you like to discover? Take some ordinary aspect of your life and think about how you can make it less ordinary, less boring.

Take my walking for example. I get very bored in the “off season” because I walk on the greenway near my house. Yes it’s long. There are over 20 or 30 miles I could explore. But inevitably it’s the same 10 mile stretch. Fortunately I’m now in the training season but I’ve noticed that I am even getting a bit bored with the training routes I have for vol state training.

However, it’s much easier for me to look at my training route with new eyes.

How?

By deciding on a specific intention fot each day’s walk. Right now it’s walking without stops but it could be to do some other exploration along the same route to find other hills.

“Having new eyes” simply means looking at things differently, from a diffferent perspective.

Back to the off season walks. I have to dedicate some of my walks to flowers or trees and by that I mean taking pix of them rather than worrying about how I’m walking.

How about your career? Almost all my life I made my jobs fun. My last 26 years were in an administrative position. You’re probably thinking – oh my god how caould that possibly be interesting? 26 years? Ugh!

But I was working with people’s lives even though it was on paper. There were always things to figure out. So I adopted the character or either Murder She Wrote or Columbo – google them if you’re too young..

Each case was a mystery to me. Something to be solved. How could I figure out what was really going on? The people who didn’t last long in that job were those who just saw words on the paper and then judged the picture painted by those words. They never questioned the words and often that was where the real truth was.

How can you look at your work or home life differenlty? Find something that bores you and try this out.