2. Wash and vacuum your car. Wax it too, if you feel that energetic. If it's raining outside, give your home interior a good cleaning.
3. Experiment in your kitchen with new recipes. Write them down on blank index cards so you won't forget them. If you can't create new recipes, get online and check out some recipes of mine.
4. Play a solo card game like Solitaire.
5. Write your thoughts in a private journal.
6. Read your favorite magazine, or take out some new subscriptions to magazines you enjoy reading.
7. Buy snacks you prefer and watch old movies that you enjoy.
8. Answer your email.
9. Listen to your favorite CDs with a video fireplace or video aquarium or other video DVDs playing and turn on some scented battery-operated candles. Enjoy the ambiance. You don't have to be part of a couple to enjoy a nice home atmosphere. You can purchase 20 feet long cables to plug into your television or stereo for your headphones or earbuds, so you won't disturb your neighbors anytime day or night from Amazon.com. Bluetooth earbuds are best as you need no cables for them. Amazon.com sells some Bluetooth earbuds around ten dollars a set. With them you can listen as loud as you want to, without disturbing anyone at any hours of the day or night, and the bass beats are better.
10. Do research online for some of your favorite projects or interests. Search engines can find many websites for you to explore on just about any subject. This is a great way to occupy your time and mind when you feel lonely. Remember, loneliness passes quickly!
11. Pay your bills, or answer any postal mail you have received. You can pay your bills online, and save the cost of stamps each month.
12. Gametop Games has many free games you can choose from to download onto your computer.
13. Begin writing your autobiography, the story of your life.
14. Order anything you need online at the stores you prefer. Grubhub.com and DoorDash.com will deliver your orders to your home. Amazon.com and Walmart.com ship orders to you quickly.
15. Go fishing. Clean and fry the fish you catch for dinner battered in cornmeal, along with cole slaw, hush puppies, and french fries. If you didn't catch any fish, just go out to Captain D's for takeout at their drive-through window, and order their Southern Country Fried Fish Meal. Order through Grubhub.com or DoorDash.com to have a meal delivered to you at home. You now have a choice of many restaurants that will deliver meals to you when you order online. A vehicle is no longer needed if you are already retired. Call Agency for Aging in your area to get a free ride to your medical appointments. Many places will do recertifications via phone.
16. Dance at home until exhausted. Dancing is a great way to exercise and lose some weight like you have been meaning to do. You can find Exercise midis and Music midis to enjoy freely. Amazon.com sells thousands of mp3s you can download instantly to your smartphone or computer devices.
17. Create a bucket list of things you still want to do and places you still want to visit, then make plans to start doing those things if you still have a vehicle or have other ways to get there.
18. Plan a vacation or even a staycation for the near future. Make your home into a place you enjoy being every day and night having all the things you would do on vacation. Your home should be your castle, decorated like you want it to be.
19. Create a new board game. Stock games that you can play alone. You can find many video games online to download that you can play alone or with your smartphone or computer.
20. Play an online game of billiards, bowling, putt-putt golf, or darts at home.
21. Read the Bible and pray, then meditate upon what you just read and prayed about, letting it sink into your mind and heart. Always be grateful and thankful for what God has blessed you with already. When we maintain an attitude of gratitude, it opens the door to even more blessings. When you pray over your food, it makes it taste better.
22. Visit a local museum. You can visit many places without ever leaving your home now. Amazon.com has virtual tours you can purchase. The Travel Channel lets you watch videos about other cities and countries. All types of museums and art galleries can now be viewed online. You can get more educated just learning new skills online that are free by using a search engine to locate what interests you.
23. Read your local newspaper online with a digital subscription.
24. Listen to Holosync CDs to upgrade your brainpower. You can get a free sample sent to your computer or smartphone.
25. Write a story, song, poem, or book. Store it online. Publish your literature online at Amazon.com.
26. Draw a picture or caricature. Practice makes perfect. Do it for fun to see how many people, places, scenes, things, or animals you can draw.
27. Find a Do-It-Yourself project that needs to be done at your home and tackle it yourself. Many self-help videos are available for free to view online on YouTube.
28. Play a relaxing Big Fish Video Game you can purchase to download instantly to your computer and enjoy whenever you choose, but try it first to see if you like it.
29. Color your hair at home. You will always look younger if no gray shows in your hair. At some point, use Pantene for Silver Hair and be proud of it because you have earned every one of those gorgeous silver hairs. Be one of those nice people who age gracefully and only get more beautiful as they age.
30. Visit a particular store you absolutely love online, and make notes of all the things you want to buy there when you can afford them. It can become your Wish List that you buy one or more at a time.
31. Visit a nearby town, and explore it for the day complete with lunch. This can be like a mini-vacation for you.
32. Take an entire day just to sleep. Sometimes this is as good as it gets. Turn off your phone ringer, put a do-not-disturb sign on your front door, wear 33-decibel ear plugs if you have noisy neighbors, put on an eye mask if the sun is too bright in your room, or buy blackout room-darkening curtains or mini blinds, and catch up on REM sleep deficit your body and mind needs so much. Remember that the human body and mind heals itself while it is in REM deep sleep cycles.
33. Enjoy watching Hallmark Movies Now, by taking a streaming subscription on Amazon.com as a Prime Member. Hallmark Movies are wholesome, family-oriented, and have no ads, no cursing, no violence, and no sex scenes, with a nice kiss at the end, and give good moral life lessons in each movie.
34. Drink pure filtered water to stay hydrated and to flush out toxins in the body. To determine how much water you need to drink daily, divide your current weight by two. The answer is how many ounces pure filtered water you need in 24 hours time. I add an individual packet or two of True Lemon, True Lime, or True Orange powders to every 30 ounces of pure filtered water I drink because it alkalinizes my system to have a balanced pH level.
35. Shop online for something you have been wanting or needing. Remember to give thanks to God for it. You can save lots of precious time and energy by ordering bulky products, prescriptions, household needs, clothing, shoes, personal needs, groceries, cleaning supplies, foods, beverages, and meals online and have them delivered to your home. Try Walmart.com or Amazon.com because they usually have more products in general than anyone else does. Amazon.com is a customer-concentric company that tries to please customers. When you type in what you are searching for, Amazon employees will try to find and stock it as soon as possible.
36. Make yourself a banana split and eat it without feeling guilty about the calories. Buy Neopolitan ice cream, maraschino cherries, canned whipped cream, chopped nuts, crushed pineapple, strawberries, maple syrup, caramel sauce, and chocolate sauce, then keep it in stock at home to have any time you want to create a banana split. There are ready-made ice cream cones called Drumsticks Banana Split Ice Cream Sundae Cones, and they are so delicious. Walmart.com carries them.
37. Give yourself a "Day or Night at the Spa" at home... facial, manicure, pedicure, body massage, big fluffy white towels, and plush white terrycloth robe and slippers, etc. Massage your favorite lotion onto your whole body. You can buy whatever you need online at Amazon.com or Walmart.com. HomeMedics makes a wonderful full-body massage mat that you can lay on in your bed or favorite recliner. PedEgg gives great treatment on your feet scraping off those dead skin cells on your heels and feet without pain. Exfoliating facial creams can also be used on your feet and body to remove dead skin cells. Don't forget the cucumber slices for your eyes while you are laying on your massage mat. Once you begin enjoying this at-home-spa-day-or-night, you will want to do it often, it is so much fun. Search for products online that you want to add to your spa stock items at home. You will need a stainless steel large bowl for a foot bath or buy a foot bath that massages your feet. Stainless steel helps remove odors. Someone needs to create a stainless steel bathtub, lavatory, and commode! The sky is the limit on this one, as you can always find more fun things to use to pamper yourself and keep adding to your spa stock collection. You can make your own customized products from products you can purchase at Amazon.com, Walmart.com, or Bulk Apothecary online.
38. If it's cold or raining outside, make a pot of soup or chili, keeping it warm in your crockpot, and watch a fireplace video while you eat. If it's hot outside, make yourself an ice-cold drink, and a fresh fruit plate with sherbet in the center, and turn on the air conditioning, then just chill out.
39. Visit my freeArt Gallery online.
40. Have a Chocolate Buffet and enjoy every luscious minute of it.
41. Wash your bed linens and clothing with Gain liquid lavender detergent. Use Downy Lavender Calm Liquid Fabric Softener in the rinse cycle of your washing machine. Dry them with Downy Calm lavender dryer sheets. Spray all your bed linens with lavender essence, so you will be able to sleep with a wonderful fragrance surrounding and relaxing you. You can make your own using 20 to 40 drops of real lavender essential oil and water mixed in a spray bottle. How much you use is up to your own preferences. Buy a memory foam mattress topper and solid memory foam pillows for your beds. Amazon.com has them for sale to ship them to your home.
42. Buy yourself some of those big fluffy white cotton towels, washcloths, and nicely scented bar soaps, shampoo, conditioner, and body wash, then pamper yourself every time you take a bubble bath or shower and smell fabulous all the time.
43. Make a fresh fruit smoothie to drink, and pat some of it all over your face, let it dry, then rinse it off with warm water. Use your favorite fruits placed in a blender and liquified.
44. Wear your favorite cologne or perfume just to boost your mood and uplift your spirit. If you don't have a favorite, try putting bottles with reeds in them with lemon, lime, orange, and lavender pure essential oils around your home so their fragrance can make your home smell nice.
45. Have a Tea Party all day long, just for yourself, complete with all kinds of goodies that you especially enjoy.
46. Laugh out loud at these two pages of Funny Jokes. Laughing out loud every day has long-term benefits for your health. Let your Inner Child come out to play daily. Watch comedy movies.
47. Visit your favorite safe private sanctuary where you can just watch the view for a while. Everyone should have a special place like that. Download Jason Stephenson's app to stream relaxing self-help or sleep hypnosis videos and music to watch and listen to relax. Go to one of my Beautiful Sunsets or Beach pictures and just enjoy the beauty and serenity like it is your own. There are several you can choose from listed on my Fun Pages Index website.
48. Make your favorite Fondue and enjoy it with chunks of fresh fruits, cubed Poundcake, or cubes of Angel Food Cake.
49. Fry some Tempura battered Vegetables and eat them as you fry them. So delicious!
50. Go to the library and check out some free books, CDs, and/or videos/DVDs, or buy your own. Amazon.com will let you download a free Kindle app reader to your computer and smartphone. You can find lots of free Kindle books if you search for them at Amazon.com. You can purchase almost any book you want now online and download it instantly on one of your electronic devices.
51. Create a new Recipe. Make it something romantic, then enjoy it alone. Savor every bite with passion for that food.
52. Sew something, even if it's just making repairs to some clothes that you like to wear often.
53. Give yourself a makeover and experiment with new makeup, cologne, clothes, colors, or hairstyles.
54. Whatever your favorite types of movies are, buy one new movie per month. Then put it up until you are ready to watch it. Make a big night out of it by having your favorite snacks and drinks close at hand. I prefer comedies. I buy them when they come out on DVD. When I watch them, I always have popcorn, soft drinks, and candy, just like in a real movie theater. Check out stores like Amazon, Walmart, Dollar General, and Family Dollar for some real bargains on DVDs or Blu-ray movies, as well as popcorn, soft drinks, and candy. Be sure to check out my recipe for Almond Nougat on my Easy Candy Creams website. Great Value Extra Butter Movie Theater Microwave Popcorn at Walmart is the best I have ever eaten.
55. Learn a foreign language. Go to the library and check out one of those audio courses you can teach yourself at your own pace. You can also buy them at your local bookstores or online at Amazon.com.
56. Repeat positive affirmations several times each day to raise your vibrational energy level. Unconditional love is the highest. Positive Energy brings you blessings from God. Negative Energies exhaust you, fatigue you, wear you out, burn you out, make you sick, destroy your good health over a period of time, and leave you feeling depressed in general.
57. Read HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOR BETTER.
58. Create a new free webpage that will help other people all over the world.
59. Take a 22-minute power walk every day. If depressed, stare out at the distance, not down at the ground. If you cannot get outdoors, use walking at home DVDs by Leslie Sansone. You can buy them on Amazon.com.
60. Buy yourself a nice full body massager mat on Amazon.com, and use it on those tired, aching muscles all over your body right before going to bed, after you get out of your bath or shower to be able to sleep better and sounder.
61. Find a Fresh Market and spend several hours there just enjoying the free samples it offers. You can find some of the best products at a place like this because everything is so fresh and delicious. You can buy small amounts (or large) to take home and enjoy later as well.
62. Visit Arts and Crafts Festivals in your area. These gifts are homemade and make excellent gifts for Christmas or for your own home. You will also get great ideas for new crafts to make on your own. Who knows? Next year you could be selling handmade crafts at local arts and crafts festivals. You can watch free streaming videos on Arts and Crafts on your smart tv.
63. Find your local Farmer's Market and frequent it to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. Once they get to know you, they will save you some of their very best products to buy and take home to enjoy. Every city or town in the world needs a Farmer's Market or a Fresh Market or grocery stores that carry fresh produce that lasts longer than a few days.
64. Buy a giant book on Crossword Puzzles, Word Finders, or Brainteasers, then do them when you get bored.
65. Purchase some of those large jigsaw puzzles and use a card table covered with a clear plastic tablecloth to put it together over a period of time. Once it's assembled, glue it together by painting the top of it with a clear decoupage medium you can buy online or at a local arts and crafts store, then frame it when dry, and hang it on a wall in your home as art.
66. Take an at-home art lesson with a Bob Ross Art Video or something similar. The Bob Ross App Channel can be downloaded free to your smart tv. In just 30 minutes you will have painted a beautiful landscape or seascape. Your local arts and crafts stores should have the art supplies you would need to buy to get started. Online search Amazon.com or Walmart.com to buy art supplies.
67. Take a day to go visit Barnes and Noble bookstore or a similar place. Search for books that interest you or will teach you how to do something you would like to learn to do. Have lunch there, and look through your books before buying them. Online you get free shipping and handling if you purchase $25.00 or more at one time. If you are an Amazon Prime Video member, you can buy DVDs and Kindle books to digitally download instantly at home. Spend a day online on your computer, searching for books you enjoy at home.
68. Buy a picnic lunch, take a blanket to sit on, and attend a free outdoor concert in your local area. You could search online for concert videos that are available to watch anytime and have your picnic in your own smart tv room at home. Serve a KFC fried chicken breast, cole slaw, and French Fries with a roll, and a large glass of sweet iced tea with lemon. For dessert, serve an individual Apple Pie.
69. Write down your nostalgic memories of yesteryears for posterity. Record dates of births, marriages, divorces, or deaths for any Geneology seekers in your family.
70. Videotape anything you would like for others to know if something should ever happen to you. You can even make a video living will. For insurance purposes, video tape everything of value in your home so you have a record of it all. You should also let anyone know if you want to be resuscitated and kept alive by machines if you cannot breathe, eat, take care of yourself, or have a heart attack or stroke.
71. Take a digital camera or a camcorder out in nature with you and see how many pretty flowers and birds you can take pics of, then share them with others online. If you can't get outdoors, do it online and share those photos you print at home with others or post online.
72. Sit down and write a song about your life, then sing it.
73. Make a list of all the things there are to do in your local area that you would enjoy doing, then do one each week or do one each month. If you can't get out, find things you can enjoy doing at home, and do them at home as you can afford to do them.
74. Daydream about what you would do if you won the lottery, then visualize it happening. When you can internally "see" it happening, it will.
75. Read your favorite author's latest book. Janice Thompson's contemporary Christian novels can be purchased on Amazon.com.
76. Learn to cut your own hair. You can find books at the local library or videos on YouTube.com or Amazon.com on this subject. You can save a lot of money each year just by cutting your own hair. If word gets around, people might ask you to cut theirs and pay you to do it, if you do a good job.
77. Massage your neck, shoulders, hands, and feet with peppermint lotion.
78. Prepare your favorite breakfast and eat it out on your balcony, patio, or porch. Suggestion - chopped Fresh Fruits bowl with a cup of fruity yogurt as a dressing, a large glass of Not-From-Concentrate Orange Juice, 2 large warm butter croissants, your favorite jam, and a hot cup of Coffee with Hazelnut Liquid Creamer or Chai. Savor every delicious bite.
79. Learn new songs to sing to God to give Him praise, without disturbing any of your neighbors.
80. Using a self-teaching program, learn how to play a musical instrument.
81. Take a subject you particularly enjoy, and do research on it online. Become an expert on it.
82. Begin a new hobby. Think of something you have always wanted to do, then set out to learn how to do it. Some suggestions for hobbies that can be done alone are art or music appreciation, researching anything that interests you, watching movies, painting pictures, drawing caricatures, landscapes, or seascapes, reading books, jewelry making, making perfumes, doing ceramics or plaster crafts, sketching designs, decorating your home, making home repairs, computer repairs, appliances repairs, charcoal drawing, doing crafts, writing articles, poems, stories, songs, or novels, photography, sewing, cooking, or shopping.
83. Buy some of those new arts and crafts kits, like a pottery wheel, jewelry-making kits, sculpting clay, or whittling wood, then try to get really good at it. You could get so good that you might be able to start a new business from it. Walmart.com and Amazon.com sell them.
84. Buy pure essential oils and an aromatherapy diffuser that will put you in a relaxed mood. Add a relaxing CD in the background for ambiance. All of Jackie Gleason's music was designed to relax women, and it really does.
85. Buy some crayons and coloring books and color like you did when you were a child. It can be fun. Let your Inner Child come out and play often.
86. When you find a coupon good to use at a new restaurant, clip it, and go there the following week for a meal. If you can't use it, give it to someone who can. The same goes for those free meal coupons you always get in the mail to sit and listen to someone present their product or business. It feels good to help others.
87. Go bicycle riding in a safe place, always wearing a bike helmet to protect your brain from injury.
88. Go rent a go-kart for an hour and work off some of that stress driving around the track.
89. Go to a batting cage and take some aggressive swings at the balls being thrown when you get mad. Pretend that ball is the person you are angry with and knock them out of the ballpark.
90. Stream your favorite programs with your smart tv apps. Many apps allow people to watch their shows for free. Do research online to find hundreds of free apps.
91. Listen to your favorite radio show when you go to bed at night. Coast-To-Coast is a good one and is on for several hours. Eat some dried Montmorency cherries so you can sleep well if you have insomnia.
92. Go play putt-putt golf, or go to a driving range and hit a few balls to improve your game. If you don't like golf, then play your own favorite sport, or sign up for lessons to learn a sport you always wanted to play.
93. Treat yourself to a nice breakfast out. If you don't enjoy going out to eat, then order online and have it delivered to you from your favorite restaurant by GrubHub.com or DoorDash.com.
94. Treat yourself to a nice lunch out. If you don't enjoy going out to eat, then order online and have it delivered to you from your favorite restaurant by GrubHub.com or DoorDash.com.
95. Treat yourself to a nice dinner out. If you don't enjoy going out to eat, then order online and have it delivered to you from your favorite restaurant by GrubHub.com or DoorDash.com.
96. Go to Disney World and walk around Epcot Center and all those places you always wanted to go but didn't because you were with someone else. Now is the time to enjoy doing things only YOU want to do.
97. Visit Bok Tower and Gardens in Lake Wales, FL just sitting and enjoying the peaceful serenity. Take along some peanuts for the squirrels. Just keep in mind those squirrels might be cute, but they are still wild animals that could bite you if you get too close to them.
98. Play a couple of games of bowling. If you can't go out, download a free bowling game online, and play it. Find free video games online and choose your favorites, then download them, and play them alone or with your computer as your opponent.
99. Watch a beautiful sunset. There is great artistic beauty in a sunrise or sunset, that only God could paint for all to enjoy daily.
100. Get up early, and watch the sunrise.
101. Do something nice for someone without them or anyone else knowing you did it. Kindness is a gift we can give to others that costs nothing, but to the person it is given can be priceless and very much-needed.
102. Learn to do Sudoku puzzles. They are great fun once you understand how to solve them. You use the numbers 1 through 9 only once on any horizontal line or vertical line and only once in each of the nine grid boxes. There is no math to figure out at all. It's more like being a numerical detective, trying to figure out where the numbers 1 - 9 would fit on each line horizontally and vertically.
103. Take up video belly dancing. It's a lot harder than you think and great exercise. Barnes and Noble sell some good videos on it. Or try watching Line Dancing Videos at home to learn the steps to something you always wanted to learn how to do. Or sign up to take Tango Lessons.
104. Learn all you can about Flower Essences and Herbs.
105. Re-organize your closets, drawers, or cabinets.
Remember when you are alone, you can do whatever you want whenever you want, without having to worry about pleasing anyone but yourself, being on anyone else's time schedule, or taking care of anyone but yourself. This can be the best time of your life! For Empathic Sensitives, it is absolutely necessary to have time alone every day to recoup your positive energy levels from God, and to avoid becoming overwhelmed by negative energy stress in your environment, and from too much stimuli coming into your system too fast.
How To Change Your Life For Better
