Do Something Different:
Go for a walk and take photos of what you see * Pick up some litter * Sing with your granny * Tell a friend why you like them * Smile at a policeman * Buy an unusual magazine and read it * Change radio channels * Let another person choose from the menu for you * Get on a bus and see where it takes you * Wear odd socks for a day * Contact a long lost friend * Read a different newspaper * Dance under the stars * Give a gift, without expecting to receive * Get a temporary tattoo and wear it somewhere visible * Sleep on the other side (or end) of the bed * Pick CDs at random and play track 8 * Buy something from a joke shop * Go barefoot * Turn up at the cinema and watch the next film that’s starting * Open a book at random and read page 33 * Start volunteering *
Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting to get a different result. Many people are keen to improve their lives and the message is simple, if you want to get something different you have to do something different.
- Do Something Different is a powerful behaviour change technique based on FIT Science, founded by my husband Professor Ben (C) Fletcher. Read a One on One profile of Ben here.
- It is at the heart of the health and wellbeing programmes we run, through rilkesroom.com and formerly through bflexgroup.com. We have been changing behaviour in communities for a number of years using Do Something Different.
- We have whole communities of people Doing Something Different in West Norfolk !
- Do Something Different underlies the successful weight loss programme that Ben and I published in The No Diet Diet (as featured on Oprah.com)
- It also features in Sheconomics, as a way of busting people’s bad habits and self-limiting beliefs and changing behaviour with money.
- It is encapsulated in the Do Something Different Journal, 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life (2009) and Love Not Smoking:Do Something Different (Hay House 2011)
Download The Do Something Different Behaviour Change Programme Paper to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee.
You can follow DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT tweets on Twitter @DSDJournal….
Watch the video below to see Ben and I doing something different!
