Want to spend more time without technology? Here are more than 100 things that you can do — offline.
- Brainstorm a list of goals that you can accomplish with deep work
- Implement that project that’s been on your “big ideas” list forever
- Do morning pages
- Print out The Pique Coaching Workbook and self-coach yourself
- Print out The Pique Coaching Career Workbook and spend time thinking exploring job options
- Do a jigsaw puzzle
- Do a logic puzzle, printed out from online
- Cook a fancy meal
- Meal plan
- Clean
- Play a board game
- Take a walk
- Write a letter
- Start writing a book
- Take a class (improv, art, music, etc)
- Paint
- KonMari your house
- Visit a museum
- Daydream
- Meditate
- Work out
- Volunteer
- Host your friends
- Read
- Take a bath
- Fix something around the house
- Nap
- Go to a park
- Go to a fair or flea market
- See a comedy show
- Go to a cultural event
- Play tennis or pick up basketball
- Garden or visit a garden
- Superthink
- Swim
- Chat with a stranger
- Make a bucket list
- Do 5-minute poems based on words of the day
- Write a letter to your future or past self
- Make a beeswax candle
- Sit at a coffeeshop and people watch
- Take a bus on a new route
- Get off at every train stop and wander around the neighborhood
- Do a no-grocery challenge
- Clean out a drawer or filing cabinet
- Make or fix a piece of furniture
- Learn a new language
- Revamp a process in your business or at work
- Get colleagues or friends together and workshop new ideas on a whiteboard
- Do a blind taste test of food or drinks
- Brainstorm 5 dream careers that you would have in an alternate life
- Go to a bookstore and hole up in a section that you don’t normally explore
- Run errands
- Browse a thrift store
- Talk to people about their weird hobbies
- Find a concept in a non-fiction book and connect it back to your industry or role somehow
- Learn calligraphy
- Take a bike ride
- Make a vision board
- Plan your next trip using only travel magazines
- Write to your intuition
- Record your dreams and find the themes
- Experiment with essential oil mixes
- Teach yourself long division again
- Play with a kid
- Visit an animal shelter
- Hold a solo dance party
- Go to Daybreaker
- Visit an alcohol-free bar
- Go to an ecstatic dance meetup
- Go to a Meetup that has nothing to do with your normal interests
- Get your friends together for a Shut Up and Write session (all writing, minimal talking)
- Go to a networking event
- Attend a conference
- Knit or crochet
- Discover a new store in your neighborhood
- Brainstorm how you can create the most value possible to the world
- Re-read your old writings
- Make a photo album or scrapbook
- Take yourself out for a picnic
- Go birdwatching
- Get a book about plants and take it out in nature
- Ask people you know if they’ll look into your eyes for 5 minutes straight
- Learn to hula hoop
- Critique your old theories and beliefs
- Make an article of clothing
- Learn to sew
- Develop and name a new theory for your industry
- Learn 10 new words
- Write and perform a song
- Donate things that you’ve outgrown
- Feng shui (rearrange) your house
- Create a mind map for a challenge in your life or in the world
- Buy the Values Deck and use them as prompt alone or in a group
- Figure out how to automate one thing in your personal or professional life
- Do a do, dump, delegate, delay exercise with everything on your to-do list
- Write a gratitude/appreciation list
- Write an imagined Q&A to and from your biggest heroes
- Make your own picture book
- Sit and observe using your 5 senses
- Come up with a themed dinner idea
- Make your own list of 100 things to do without tech 😉
