Simple joys

Simple joys

1. Watch a funny video on YouTube.
2. Listen to your favorite music.
3. Cook something delicious.
4. Treat yourself and order your favorite food to take home.
5. Read a book.
6. Dance.
7. Sing your favorite song. But only incendiary.
8. Watch a good movie.
9. Play with your pet.
10. Buy a bouquet of flowers and place it in a visible place so that it pleases the eye.
11. Drink delicious tea, coffee or other drink.
12. Take a series of selfies with funny facial expressions.
13. Come to work in a nice outfit.
14. Buy an inexpensive item that can lift your spirits. It is better that its cost does not exceed 1000 tenge.

The point is to find a gift for nominal money, and not to make an impulsive purchase.

1. Recite with feeling your favorite poem or excerpt from a play.

Relax

1. Meditate for 10 minutes. Or simply sit up straight, close your eyes and take 10 slow breaths.
2. Take a salt bath with essential oils.
3. Have a 20-minute yoga or stretching session.
4. Ask someone to give you a massage. Or make it yourself. A massage chair in a shopping center is also an option.
5. Pop bubble wrap, stick your hand into peas (beans, lentils) like Amelie, or get pleasant tactile sensations in another way.
6. Let off some steam and shout.
7. Finally go to bed early and get some sleep!

Creation

1. Draw a picture. Your artistic abilities are absolutely not important here.
2. Come up with a story. It can be a good fairy tale or a chilling thriller. The main thing is that it captures you.
3. Make something with your own hands.
4. If you can, play a musical instrument. However, if you don’t know how, nothing prevents you from extracting rhythmic sounds from surrounding objects.
5. Come up with a comic with yourself as the main character. You can use your own sadness as a starting point. For example, invent the superpower of tears or despondency.

Such entertainment will help you look at the situation in a less serious and tragic way.

1. Color the coloring book or create a mandala.
2. Make a vision board by cutting out illustrations from magazines or newspapers that reflect your dreams. Glue them onto a piece of cardboard or whatman paper and hang them in a visible place.
3. Print out your favorite photos and make an album out of them.

Activities involving others

1. Write a kind letter to a friend or relative who is also having a hard time. Alternatively, call and reassure him.
2. Talk to your most beloved and compassionate loved one.
3. Prank your friend.
4. Surprise someone.
5. Give someone a sincere compliment.

Activities outside the home

1. Take a walk around your neighborhood or go to a park.
2. Open a map of your city and blindly select a location. Go there and find something interesting there.
3. Take an unfamiliar public transport route and look at the city from the window.
4. Feed ducks, squirrels or pigeons - any non-dangerous living creatures you see within the city.
5. Go on a photo walk. You can simply photograph the city and people, or come up with an unusual theme. For example, photographing red-haired strangers or beautiful cracks in the asphalt.
6. Open the poster, select an interesting event that is taking place that day, and attend it. Performance, concert, exhibition - at your discretion.
7. Go to the pool or gym.
8. Visit a place you've been wanting to go to for a long time. It could be a flea market, a museum, an unfamiliar area of the city - the choice is yours.
9. Get to your usual place using an unusual route.
10. Ride a bike, skateboard, or roller skate

Useful things

1. Clean your house.
2. Throw away all the trash that has collected on the balcony, mezzanines and other places where useless things accumulate.
3. Rearrange your apartment.
4. Finally, put your computer and phone in order.
5. Unfriend all users on social networks who do not interest you or annoy you. It would also be a good idea to clean out your email and unsubscribe from unnecessary mailings.
6. Start learning a useful skill.
7. Donate money, items, or time to charity.

Return to childhood

1. Play your favorite childhood game. To do this, you will most likely have to involve other people. Although, for example, you can play classics alone.
2. Build a fort out of pillows and blankets.
3. Play a prank on a random caller on the phone.
4. Blow bubbles.
5. Play shadow theater.
6. Ride on the swings at the playground.
7. Go on rides at an amusement park.
8. Set off firecrackers or fireworks. A simplified version is sparklers.
9. Draw with crayons on the asphalt.

Other activities

1. Practice penmanship and write out all the letters of the alphabet beautifully.
2. Imagine that you are giving an interview to your favorite publication. Answer questions honestly and thoroughly. Although... Answer as you want.
3. Write down three of your accomplishments. More is possible.
4. Write down three things you are grateful for in the world.

The list goes on and on.