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To begin this week’s Why Not post, I’d like to challenge you to switch the hand you use to direct the mouse on your computer. While it is true that until your early teens it is easiest to learn new skills in writing, math, language, music and body coordination for sports and dance, it is still possible to continually learn new skills regardless of your age, it just might take a bit more determination.
By simply changing the hand that directs the mouse, you are stimulating your brain, thereby, improving its function – similar to that of physical exercise. No matter how old you are, your brain, unlike your body, can grow – new neurons that is. Isn’t that exciting? It really is a perfect example of mind or matter. If you continually are challenging your brain, you are continually improving your state of life. While “severe mental decline is usually caused by disease, most age-related losses in memory or motor skills simply result from inactivity and a lack of mental exercise and stimulation. In other words, use it or lose it.”
So here are some ways to continue to introduce enjoyable activities into your life that also challenge your mind and enable you to live even more fully and healthy.
Switch Hands
Take a New Class
Try a New Recipe
First of all, the confidence you will feel after successfully mastering a recipe, and placing a delicious meal on the table or coffee table for a snack is reason enough to try a new recipe, but cognitively your brain is engaged, thereby, exercising your noggin. Two for one. Conjure up some joie de vivre and a bit of Julia Child gumption and get to cooking!
Visit a New Place
Discover a New Author
In conclusion, you have so much to gain by trying something new, and quite a bit to lose if you don’t, so think about what you can introduce into your life. You might be surprised as to where it leads. Have a beautiful Wednesday.Click here to read part two in the Why Not . . . Challenge Yourself? series.
Great post, I sincerely believe that everybody needs a new challenge in life – all the time, otherwise is really gets boring.
Lovely pictures, too:)
Lovely post!
interesting! i will give the switching hands and new author a real try. xoxolannie.
Great post- sometimes I need to be reminded to do these sorts of things…
On a side note…that Chanel??!! Gotta Have!!
What a great reminder to keep learning and changing things up. I too believe it is so important! Thanks for such a beautiful post.
XO Piper
These are all fantastic ideas, darling, and perfectly illustrated!
I am going to try to be left-handed today!
xoxox,
CC
Fabulous ideas! It’s always good to challenge oneself although I have to admit that I’m not the best at this. But I have decided to take a photography class and that’s a good start, right? 🙂
Hope you’re having a lovely day!
love the switch hands thing – i try that every now-and-again ..
*kiss kiss*
Erika
~Tiptoe Butterfly~
Exquisite post. I learn from the gravity of life, and I’m very active, too.
Very good advice, as always! I will have to try the switching hands things too!
What a great post… I’m going to like your new series 😉 Always challenging and inspiring!
xxMK
Delightful Bitefuls
Loved this post! New things are always fun to try and they just make us feel so much better. Getting stuck in a rut is not the best way of enjoying life 🙂
I switched my mouse a few years ago due to repetitive stress injury. It really is good for your brain and to give your other hand a break.
These are some great suggestions. I would like to add, try taking a different way to work/school/grocery store, where ever you drive that you know you could do it in your sleep. Wake up and take a different route.
Cheers!
J.
J.Is A Bird – That’s a great idea and something that would be fairly easy to do. We could always use more alert drivers on the road. Thank you!
absolutely adore this! such wonderful suggestions for exercising the mind — definitely need to use my left hand more and plan a trip . . .
xo
This is a fantastic post! How informative and motivational — thank you! I will have to think on what you have brought up 🙂
Have a great weekend!
I wanted to thank you for mentioning chess as a way to flex your brain in new and interesting ways. It is indeed that — and a well-crafted chess set adds elegance and beauty for your home.