This Book Will Change Your Life

When I started writing I had no idea what I would write about.  I thought it would be more of an exercise, mental calisthenics just to keep me entertained.

I soon discovered I needed a push.  I had the desire to write, but the creative muscles were rusty.  Making new habits is tough.  I needed a plan.

Enter This Book Will Change Your Life.  That’s a pretty bold statement…. This Book Will Change Your Life.  I can’t say that this book changed my entire life.  But it did  make me sit down and write something down almost every day.

The book challenges you to focus on “hysterical living.”  I found in executing the daily challenges that I lived pretty hysterically already.  Shocking, I know.

Eventually I didn’t need the kick in the pants to sit down and write and the book has been resting comfortably on a bookshelf.  In the meantime you can start at the very beginning – click the links below to see how I challenged myself.

1.  Complete one challenge.
2. The love of your life
3.  Today throw away something you like.
4.  International Travel Challenge
5. Out of Order
6. Write the first line of your novel
7. Masturbate at 1:56
8. Addiction Free Day
9. Do Something Before Breakfast – When I started exercising again an noticed my back hurt.  A lot.  And often.
10.  Meet Jonas
11. Introduce yourself.
12. What’s your type?
13. Send a letter to a mass murderer.
14. A day of compliments
15. Be gay for a day
16. Discretely give people the finger all day. – An all time favorite with the googlers.
17. East asparagus all day. or The Day I invented Soup
18. Kill Something.
19. Pretend to be a Secret Agent
20. Poetry Day
21. Patriotism Day
22. Agree to meet someone in ten years time.
23. Plastic Fantastic!
24. Barter Day
25. Things you will never do before you die
26. Choose what you will be reincarnated as
27. Yes or No
28. Death Row Meal
29. Southern Accent
30. Ignore Today – I got engaged today.
31. Nauru Awareness
32. Control your dreams
33. Paranormal Lookout
34. Write to a dictator to stop torture
35. Give tasks to those around you – wherein I ramble on about that man of mine.
36. Say nothing today
37. Eat and Run
38. Spend some time in a church
39. Speak Swedish
40. Play a Practical Joke
41. Apply for Knighthood
42. Walk Barefoot
43. Write a diary
44. Defy superstition – I loved this day.
45. Romance Day
46. Birthday Day!
47. Count Sheep
48. Make a first impression
49. Make a citizen’s arrest
50. Make People Notice You
51. Sense-less
52. What is the Meaning of Life
53. Return All your Junk Mail
54. Count your farts
55. Pancake Day and the most I have ever really said about my ex-husband and our divorce.
56. Rock and Roll
57. Try food that scares you
58. Pass on skills to your family.
59. Are you psychic?
60. Order an impossible pizza.
61. How symmetrical is your face?
62. Prepare circles.
63. Break a world record. or The post that creeps find when they google “world’s biggest asshole woman.”
64. Send a letter
65. Learn a poem by heart.
66. Save water.
67. One day detox
68. Grow a long hair.
69. Downsizing Day
70. Are you a Psycopath?
71. See more of the world.
72. Closure Day
73. Get a Hobby
74. Express your views – The day I spoke up about my abortion.
75. Make a reservation.
76. Wear shoes one size too small.
77. Design a logo.
78. How politically correct are your friends?
79. Become an expert.
80. Eat a piece of furniture.
81. Celebrate nature.  
82. Meditation
83. International Phone Call
84. Plant an apple core.
85. Release a red balloon
86. The wrong side of the tracks
87. Morse Code
88. Measure Your Biceps
89. Primal Scream
90. Collapse a Currency
91. Peel a Potato
92. Write a Will 
93. Cosmic Humility