How To Find Inner Peace In Everyday Life

What are you going to do with your summer?

Eat & Sleep Be Bored?

or....

• Take a hike somewhere new.
• Take a bike ride.
• Play frisbee.
• Go lay in a hammock to read, listen to music, or take a nap.
• Lay in the sun (tanning).
• Get a job helping a neighbor with grass cutting, yard work, cleaning basement and garages. 
• Get a job Babysitting.
• Get a job working on a farm for the summer.
• Do a project like building a bird house.
• Make jewelry
• Make decorated concrete stepping stone.
• Plant your own small vegetable garden.
• Go to the beach.
• Go swimming in a pond or a pool.
• Have a camp fire in the backyard.
• Pick wild blueberries, strawberries....
• Take a old piece of board and create a cool sign for your room or as a present for someone. 
• Collect all the old candles from your home and melt them down and create a new candle. 
• Design a tshirt with paint or tie dye.
• Create your own slip and slide course!  Get crazy!!
• Clean your bedroom! The whole thing!  LOL!
• Paint and reorganize your bedroom!
• Bake a fruit pie.
• Bake Cookies.
• Make Spaghetti for your family.
• Write a letter to a professional sports team or player to see if you can get an autographed picture.
• Take a walk down by shoreline at Ludington Park to pick beach glass.  Great for creating with art projects.  
• Make a hiking stick.  decorate with your own carvings & colors. 
• Take old Silverware (Preferably antique) and make a wind chime using fishing line.  Use a hammer to bend the shapes of the metal.
• Take a old piece of furniture, chest, chair, dresser and redo it.  Strip it, paint it, stain it.....
• Ask your parents or grandparents to tell you stories about what things were like in there past adventures and moments.  
• Ask your family to help you research your family tree.  (Where do I get my last name?  (Where is my family from?)
• Go look through old family photographs.  Snap pictures of them using your cell phone so you will have a copy for the future.
• Write a letter to yourself.  Talk about your wishes and hopes for the future.  Seal it and keep it safe.  Reopen in 20 -25 years from now. 
• Find a waterproof container and create a time capsule. Place items like photographs, newspaper, letters, coins and a can of soda pop wrapped up in a towel.  Place the items in a weather proof container and bury it in the ground.  Harbor Freight Store has an inexpensive plastic weather proof boxes to keep things safe. Be specific as to where you bury it.  Go and dig it up 20-25 years.  You will be amazed!
• Find some small creeks, ponds or lakes to take a fishing pole, a hook and a worm.  Drop it in! 
• Try to take a cool picture with your cell phone.  Take the picture in and get it framed for your house or bedroom. Even the Dollar Store has inexpensive frames.   Maybe give the artwork as a gift!
• Paint a glass or a dish.  You can paint anything.... A vase, a lamp, a bottle, a old door as artwork.  

These are just a few opportunities! Most times the internet can guide you on instructions if needed.   What ideas can you come up with?   Post your ideas on the blog.