Do you set out each day to try and do something different than the day before no matter how small ..

hollydolly

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I mentioned this in the games and it was suggested that I make a post about it..so here it is....

Given that we're all different ages.. and abilities... it would be interesting to know if you try and do something different than the day before, no matter how small..


I am a very impulsive person , I dislike routine very much, and so every day even my chores are done in a different way... but also every day I attempt to do something just a little different.. from the day before.

At home I might be here on the computer uploading and filing , and posting pictures.. I may be uploading videos.. I may be painting something in the house ( all very impulsive things)... ..I may be off out visiting.. or driving down to the beach, or just on the spur of the moment over to the Marina and our boat.. .. .. but I try and just do things a little different each day from the previous day ( even if it's just playing different music to usual) ... ...you don't have to be impulsive like me.. but do you try and keep yourself , physically or mentally stimulated even in just a small way... :D
 

I don't think about it just do what feels right at the moment. I love to read and will be reading two different books at a time. I play solitaire everyday while listening to you tube music. Sometimes I listen to the oldies, love Leonard Cohen's music and the old country music and I do mean the old stuff. So I do different things but not in a deliberate (sic) way.
 
Yes, I do. There are a number of things I do every day, and some that I do 3 times a week. Those are routines I rarely change. But I like to have some kind of project every day. I've painted the chest of drawers in the kitchen several times. I build wooden cubbies and make feeders out of large plastic bottles for the feral cats and wild birds. I pull weeds outside even though it isn't our "yard", it's community area. I even prune the community trees. I built Paxton a base for his bed out of a wooden pallet that I painted blue, but he didn't like it cuz he hurt his ankle on it, so I took it apart and built shelves for his toys instead. And when there's nothing else to do, I sit at the sewing machine and think of something.
 
Don't intentionally set out to something different it just happens. I feel exceptionally fortunate that during my years working I was able to experience a lot of different jobs. Changing jobs had a variety of reasons, worst job I ever had was working for the U S post office. Best job was heavy equipment mechanic working unsupervised outdoors year round.
 
For most of my life, I hated routine.
OMG!!!! Doing the same thing day after day-just shoot me. But now, I watch the same shows at the same time, eat the same foods, do the same things at the same time. If someone said years ago that I would be in this rut, and enjoying it, I would have have said, "Ain't no way, in hell, would I ever do that".
 
For me, when something disrupts my routine, I get stressed out and it ruins the whole day. I find comfort in the same-ness of each day. Not that I never do different things, it's just that I have experienced too many spontaneous things that led to trouble and required more energy than I have available these days.
 
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I don't think about what I did yesterday. I just get out my red cape, hold it in front of me and whatever bull charges me, I handle it.
Now sometime I post a quote somebody said but here I have forgotten where that thread is for Quote of the Day so I won't do that
today. Seems like Ms Kansas had the Quote of the Day. Don't remember.
 
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I'm impulsive too, @hollydolly so that usually ensures that I don't do things along a daily routine. Remember reading many years ago how something as simple as changing your daily driving route is good for the brain so have gotten into a habit of that. Small changes like taking a different driving route or walking the same path at a different time of day causes me to notice the environment from a totally different perspective.
 
Today I gave away a couple of oak tree saplings that I grew from acorns to neighbours who have huge gardens.
On strips of plastic markers, I wrote the name of the tree with the following instruction.

Do not fell this tree until 2121, or I'll come back and haunt you.

I got a smile off them both. :)
 
drifter said:
I don't think about what I did yesterday. I just get out my red cape, hold it in front of me and whatever bull charges me, I handle it.
Now sometime I post a quote somebody said but here I have forgotten where that thread is for Quote of the Day so I won't do that
today. Seems like Ms Kansas had the Quote of the Day. Don't remember.
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@drifter..... Here is the "Quote of the Day" thread you were thinking of:
https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/quote-of-the-day.46659/
 
I have a routine for each day of the week. The work gets done before my "me" time. What I do during my time is spontaneous. Depends how I feel. I might sew, cook ,read, paint or deep clean a room or closet.

The only time I vary my routine is for yard and garden work. That is governed by the weather. Mother Nature cares less about when I want to clean the bathroom.
 
AnnieA said:
I'm impulsive too, @hollydolly so that usually ensures that I don't do things along a daily routine. Remember reading many years ago how something as simple as changing your daily driving route is good for the brain so have gotten into a habit of that. Small changes like taking a different driving route or walking the same path at a different time of day causes me to notice the environment from a totally different perspective.
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I absolutely do that too with regard to the driving, Annie. Always have, it baffles my o/h who is perfectly happy to take the same route in life generally... but not me...
 
I like routine and some sameness every day; most of the time to just get things out of the way as I do it all the time...sigh...hopefully when we are able to get out and actually do other things, some of my routine will be broken. Sigh...I get tired of the routine but don't know what I want to do so I just do the same things.
 
My late M-i-l had a routine for everything. She raised her childrenalone when she was made a widow from when they were small, whilst holding down a full time job , so routine was key to her, but even after they were grown and left home she continued, still working, and still doing the same things on the same day and her chores in the same way when she was at home.

She even cooked the same meals on the same days.. no deviation...

The only time she did anything different was when she had her annual weeks' holiday ... and of course that was always a week in the same place every year
 
A lifetime of work forced me into a routine and living by the clock. My ex was just the opposite which is probably one reason that she's my ex.
 
I'm impulsive but have learned to restrict my impulsivity within boundaries.

My body demands that I be somewhat of a creature of habit. It rarely allows me to sleep past the 5:00 hour and DH sleeps a couple of hours longer, so I use that quiet time for coffee and internet surfing.

I'm going to try taking different routes to familiar destinations. Should make for some interesting adventures because I have no sense of direction.
 
The key word is TRY, so far I haven't tried hard enough
 

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