When we schedule and engage in positive events that make us feel connected to our community and the world around us we feel better about ourselves and our relationships.
Below is a list of activities that you might enjoy. Feel free to add your own fun activities to the list, or in the post comments.
Fun activity catalogue
- Soaking in the bathtub
- Planning your career
- Collecting things, such as coins and shells
- Going for a holiday
- Recycling old items
- Relaxing
- Going on a date
- Going to a movie
- Jogging or walking
- Listening to music
- Reminding yourself you have done a full day’s work
- Recalling past parties
- Buying household gadgets
- Playing a team sport
- Planning a career change
- Laughing
- Thinking about past trips
- Listening to others
- Reading magazines or newspapers
- Hobbies, such as stamp collecting or model building
- Spending an evening with good friends
- Planning a day’s activities
- Meeting new people
- Remembering beautiful scenery
- Saving money
- Playing cards and board games
- Going to the gym, doing aerobics
- Eating
- Thinking how it will be when you finish school or uni
- Getting out of debt or paying off your debts
- Practising karate, judo, yoga
- Thinking about retirement
- Repairing things around the house
- Working on your car or bicycle
- Remembering the words and deeds of loving people
- Wearing sexy clothes
- Having quiet evenings
- Gardening or taking care of your plants
- Buying or selling stocks and shares
- Going swimming
- Doodling
- Exercising moderately
- Collecting old things
- Going to a party
- Thinking about buying things
- Playing golf
- Playing soccer
- Flying a kite
- Having discussions with friends
- Having family get-togethers
- Riding a motorbike
- Playing squash
- Going camping
- Singing around the house
- Arranging flowers
- Going to church, praying (practising or thinking about your religion)
- Going to the beach
- Thinking ‘I’m an OK person’
- Having a day with nothing to do
- Having a class reunion
- Going ice skating or roller skating/blading
- Going sailing
- Travelling abroad, interstate or intrastate
- Sketching or painting
- Doing something spontaneously
- Doing embroidery or cross stitching
- Driving
- Entertaining
- Joining clubs (gardening, sewing)
- Thinking about getting married
- Going birdwatching
- Singing with groups
- Playing musical instruments
- Doing arts and crafts
- Making a gift for someone
- Buying CDs, old tapes and records or downloading music online
- Watching boxing or wrestling
- Planning parties
- Cooking or baking
- Going hiking or bush walking
- Writing a book (poems, articles)
- Sewing
- Buying clothes
- Working
- Going out to dinner
- Discussing books
- Sightseeing
- Going to the beauty salon
- Having as early morning coffee and reading the newspaper
- Playing tennis
- Watching your children play
- Going to plays and concerts
- Daydreaming
- Planning to go to school
- Thinking about sex
- Going for a drive
- Listening to music
- Refurbishing furniture
- Watching TV or DVDs
- Make lists of tasks
- Bike riding
- Walking along the riverfront or beach
- Buying gifts
- Travelling to national parks
- Completing a task
- Thinking about your achievements
- Going to a footy match – or rugby, soccer or basketball
- Exchanging emails or chatting online
- Photography
- Fishing
- Thinking about pleasant events
- Star gazing
- Flying a plane
- Reading
- Acting
- Being alone
- Writing diary/journal entries or letters
- Taking children places
- Dancing
- Going on a picnic
- Thinking ‘I did that pretty well’ after doing something
- Meditating
- Playing volleyball
- Having lunch with a friend
- Going to the hills
- Remembering happy moments in your childhood
- Playing cards
- Solving riddles mentally
- Having a political discussion
- Playing cricket
- Seeing and/or showing photos
- Knitting, crocheting, quilting
- Doing crossword puzzles or sudoku
- Shooting pool or playing billiards
- Dressing up and looking nice
- Reflecting on how you’ve improved
- Buying things for yourself
- Talking on the phone
- Going to museums or art galleries
- Surfing the internet
- Lighting candles
- Listening to the radio
- Going crabbing
- Having coffee at a cafe
- Getting or giving a massage
- Saying ‘I love you’
- Thinking about your good qualities
- Buying books
- Taking a sauna or a steam bath
- Going skiing
- Going canoeing or white-water rafting
- Going bowling
- Doing woodworking
- Fantasising about the future
- Doing ballet, jazz or tap dancing
- Debating
- Playing computer games
- Having an aquarium
- Horseback riding
- Rock climbing
- Thinking about becoming active in the community
- Doing something new
- Completing jigsaw puzzles
- Thinking ‘I’m a person who can cope’
- Playing with your pets
- Having a barbecue
- Rearranging the furniture in your house
- Buying new furniture
- Window shopping
- Thinking ‘I have a lot more going for me than most people’ / Practicing gratitude
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