“Never be afraid to try something new because life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already know.”
Anonymous
This month, we’re encouraging you to try something new! Learning something new or getting involved in an activity that really absorbs and interests us is great for our wellbeing. Keeping our brains active is not only good for us physically but it can help you feel you are flourishing as you see yourself make progress with a new skill, or just make you smile as you make a mess and decide to start again. Being playful and trying new things is important, as is remembering that it’s OK not to get it right first time – change “I can’t do it”, into “I can’t do it…yet!”
Podcast: Hear This Idea
Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Available on Spotify.
Netflix: Battle
After Amalie’s dad goes bankrupt, the young dancer’s affluent life collapses. But she finds a new beat to follow, after meeting hip-hop dancer Mikael. Watch the trailer here.
Yoga: YouTube
Yoga for New Beginnings | Yoga with Adriene – Yoga for New Beginnings is the perfect at home yoga practice for those wanting to create space in mind and body. Open your mind and heart and welcome in fresh breath, joy, opportunity and self-love.
Read: Happier Every Day, Paula Munier
In Happier Every Day, author and yoga instructor Paula Munier details a simple yet comprehensive approach to cultivating happiness, including the most recent data and discoveries, all distilled into layman’s terms. She provides 100 practical, easy-to-implement exercises and activities that cover both the well-known and more obscure techniques for achieving happiness. A joyful, encouraging book, Happier Every Day can be picked up as needed to help calm your heart, or read from front to back as one would a daily devotional. It provides a sound beginning to each day, helping you to put yourself in a state of mind where you’ll be open to happiness in whatever form it presents itself.
Meditation: YouTube
Hope & Positivity: A Guided Meditation for New Beginnings – This calm and gentle guided meditation will help to place you within a mindset of hope and positivity. It will help to give you respite from worry and place your mind upon a more relaxed and optimistic path.
Finance: 50 Personal Finance Tips That Will Change the Way You Think About Money
This article is from our friends at LearnVest, a leading site for personal finance. We’ve certainly amassed a wealth of knowledge over the years covering the money beat—be it the dozens of “I got out of debt” success stories we’ve featured to the scores of psychological studies we’ve covered linking better financial decision-making to behavior change. So, we’ve decided that there is no better time than now to round up our 50 top money tips into one juicy, super-helpful read.
Watch: The Curious Works of Roger Doyle
A feature documentary which looks at the life’s work of Irish experimental music composer Roger Doyle as he gets a chance to stage one of his most ambitious musical projects; his first electronic opera. Available on the RTE Player.
TEDTalks: Why We Must Do New Things to Live a Happier Life | Lu Ann Cahn
Intrigued by her daughter’s suggestion Lu Ann took her up on it: she overcame her midlife routine with a passion to do something new every day. The resulting adventures, stories, and heart-grabbing moments are highlighted in this compelling talk. Watch the talk here.
For the Children: Let’s Find Out
Zoom and her crew find out how things work! Kids can learn about robots, dinosaurs, trees, music and much more. Available on the RTE Player.
Article: What Should I Do Today? 30 New Things to Do Today
It’s always fun to do something new, but often we fall into the trap of spending our weekends the same way. If you’re stuck in the same old routine, it might be time to try something new. Here are 30 new things to do.
Playlist: New Things November
This Spotify playlist will hopefully keep you motivated to try (and listen to) new things over the month. The playlist is available here.
The Mindful Traveller 