Ten Ways To Distort Your Day

Alter Your Reality and Remix Your Mind

Take Steps to Change your Worldview

The world is a messy, messy place. Life is weighty so have some fun. Skew your perspective on the world by interacting with it in a new way. Just embrace surreality.

Ten Ideas to Distort Your Day

1. Adopt a new handwriting style.

One of my favorite inspirations for writing is a great book on graffiti lettering.  Flip the Script by Christian P. Acker

2. Don a flight cap & scarf.

Hop in your sopwith, take a flight and get in a dog fight with the Red Baron.

3. Make a pillow fort. 

Get some chairs, a big pile of pillows and your music. Hide from the world for a little while.

4. Put sprinkles in your salt shaker.

I like the rainbow ones.

5. Reconnect with your imaginary friend.

Just set some time aside. Maybe have a tea party.

6. Read an article on a different religion than your own.

It could change your world and your life. At the very least, you will be exposed to a different view of the world. 

7. Believe in an impossible thing.

Really work at it. Convince yourself. As the Queen said to Alice, "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." 

8. Start a project.

Take photos for a photobook. Make mandalas out of candy, paint pictures, experiment. Take all the pictures and put it all together into your own unique book. The project will stretch you, change you and give you a chance to create something to be proud of. You'll have a mission. When you hold that book in your hands, remember that you did the work.

9. Take a long walk.

Do something completely ordinary and completely out of the ordinary for you. It's especially good if it's something you don't normally take time to do. I am a creature of habit. I like my habits but it is good to break them.

10. Make something new.

Go into your trash but not the gross trash. Take some random junk laying around the house and make a sculpture. I made a Batman with ink, paint, glue, tape, and an old cereal box,  I made a Beemo with plastic, wire, paint, clay and duct tape. I made a dollhouse with a ton of different things.  Choose a subject you like and that holds meaning for you.