Growth quests

Teach someone

Teach someone skill you know

Music from nothing

Create rhythm or melody from objects around you

30 minutes of new

Dedicate 30 minutes to learning new skill

Alternative history

Rewrite moment from yesterday differently

New playlist

Find 5 songs from genre you usually don't listen to

Culinary experiment

Cook dish from cuisine you've never tried cooking

New route

Go home or to work completely different way

100 squats

Do 100 squats during day (can split)

Plank challenge

Hold plank as long as possible, beat your record

Walking marathon

Walk 10,000 steps in one go

No elevator

Use only stairs all day

Digital detox

Delete one app that steals your time

Book instead of social

Read book for 30 minutes instead of social media

Full digital detox

Spend day without internet (except work)

Learn 10 words

Learn 10 new words in foreign language

New skill

Spend 30 minutes learning something completely new

Master class

Take online lesson on topic of interest

New place

Visit cafe or shop where you've never been

New street

Walk down street you've never walked

New dish

Try dish from cuisine you haven't tried

New shop

Enter shop you've never been to

New music genre

Listen to 15 minutes of unfamiliar music genre

New hobby

Try new hobby for hour

Cultural discovery

Visit museum or exhibition

New author

Start book by author you've never read

New transport

Try type of transport you've never used

Park exploration

Explore new part of familiar park

New podcast

Listen to podcast on unfamiliar topic

Blood donation

Donate blood or register as donor

Three Oranges

Eat an orange as if you've never eaten one before

Best Day

Open your closet. Take out the most beautiful clothes you own. Get dressed. Look in the mirror and say: 'Today is an abundant, joyful day.' And go. Into the city, into nature, wherever. Do the maximum of what you can. Today.

21 Steps

Take a piece of paper. At the top, write your goal — any goal. Learn a language, lose weight, run a marathon, start a business. Break the path into 21 stages. Small, specific. And every day — one step. Rain, laziness, bad mood — doesn't matter. One step. After 21 days, look back.

Day of Silence

Pick a day in your calendar. One day — yours. No gadgets. No calls. Maximum silence. Just you, your thoughts, nature, a walk, something you love. If you really need to break it — no problem, break it. But try to hold on. You'll be surprised by what you hear when everything else goes quiet.

New cuisine

Cook a dish you've never tried before

Local Tourist

Visit a museum or landmark in your city you've ignored

Skill Sprint

Learn basics of a new skill on YouTube

No Gadgets Day

24 hours without phone/PC/TV

Course Start

Buy that online course or book and finish Chapter 1

Guitar Hero

Buy a guitar and write your first simple song

Sushi Master

Make professional-grade sushi at home

Musical start

Learn and play one song on any instrument.

Sunrise in new place

Watch the sunrise in a place you've never been.

Dream story

Write a story about your dream coming true.

Childhood portal

Visit a place connected to your childhood.

Driving master

Sign up for a driving course or a dream test drive.

Marathon challenge

Register and run a marathon or half-marathon.

First income

Create something with your hands and sell it.

Your hit

Write and record your own song.

Night walk

Go for a walk after 10 PM. Hear the city differently.

Solve without Google

Choose something you usually Google — and figure it out yourself. No internet.

Mini film in one hour

Film and edit a video under 60 seconds about something important to you.

Day newspaper

Create one newspaper page about the events of your day.

Sugar-free day

One day — no added sugar. Read labels honestly.

No chair day

All day avoid sitting in chairs. Stand, lie, squat — but no chair.

Phone in the drawer

Put your phone in a drawer from 8 AM to 8 PM. Don't touch it.

Caffeine-free day

One day — no coffee, tea, cola. Just water and herbal tea.

10 lefts

Step outside and turn left 10 times. Where did you end up?

Music roulette

Hit Shuffle on an unfamiliar playlist and listen without skipping — whatever plays.

Keto week

Try a keto or low-carb diet for at least 7 days straight. Notice how your energy and mental clarity change.

Vitamins with AI

Discuss your vitamins and supplements with an AI: what you take, why, and what might be missing.

Sci-fi experiment

Watch 3 episodes of an unfamiliar sci-fi series in one day. Write down your takeaways. For the next 3 days, notice which of its ideas resurface in your thoughts.

Friend of animals

No pet — adopt one. Already have one? Then donate any amount to a shelter, offer to volunteer, or visit a farm (a moose farm, why not) and offer the owners a hand.

Three days that can change a life

Three days in a row: do only what you want, and refuse to react to negativity

Five songs that aren't your thing

Five tracks from music you normally don't listen to — in full, no skipping

A Moroccan dish

Tagine, harira or pastilla — any way you can: a restaurant, a Moroccan shop, delivery or your own kitchen

Injera with wat

Ethiopian sour flatbread instead of a plate and cutlery. Tear a piece, scoop the stew, eat with your right hand

Momo with butter tea

Tibetan dumplings and tea with salt and yak butter. The tea is salty — that is not a mistake by the kitchen

Falafel with tahini

Make it yourself, from dried chickpeas soaked overnight. Canned ones will not work, and that is part of the lesson

Tonkotsu ramen

The real thing, where the broth simmered on bones for twelve hours or more. Cloudy and thick is the sign that it did

Tom yum from scratch

Track down lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime leaves — then cook it yourself. Half the quest is the hunt

The hour before work

Block an hour before work in your calendar and spend it walking with no aim. Nothing from the to-do list

A letter of forgiveness

Write a letter to the person you cannot forgive. Sending it is optional — the letter does its work either way

Who Ordered This Hour

Log your day in half-hours and write next to each one who decided it. Add up the ones that were yours.

Yesterday, Hour by Hour

Rebuild yesterday from memory, hour by hour, and only then check your phone.

Not Now, at Four

For one day, do nothing on the spot. Park every request in one hour and handle it there.

Your Own Script

Tonight write tomorrow hour by hour the way you want it, then live it exactly as written.

One Thing Left Undone

Pick one thing you do daily on autopilot and simply don't do it today.

Today's No's

All day, note every time you tell yourself no. In the evening, see how many were really about money.

Who Am I Buying For

Open your last thirty purchases and write who each one was for. Then add up what went to you.

What Your Hour Costs

Work out what one hour of you costs. Then check three of your money-saving habits — do they pay off?

Three Forgotten Wants

Name three things you wanted this year and quietly gave up. Find their exact prices and add them up.

I Didn't Get That

Say out loud "I didn't understand, explain again" where you'd normally nod.

The Thing You Quit

Dig out the thing you abandoned — guitar, paints, a language — and give it two hours with no goal.

The Résumé You Never Wrote

Write the résumé of the person you'd be if you had turned the other way back then.

One Bag

Pack one bag as if tomorrow you start over somewhere else. Only what you can carry.

Resignation in the Drawer

Write your resignation letter, read it out loud, put it in a drawer. Don't send it.

The Banned Phrase

Pick the phrase you use to close conversations — fine, as usual, busy — and ban it for a day.

The Word "Should"

Two hours without "should" or "have to". Finish the sentence honestly: I want, I'm afraid, I won't.

The Number You Never Look At

Find the exact number you have been avoiding and write it down on paper.

A Day Without Sorry

Do not apologise all day where you are not at fault. Replace sorry with thank you.

The List of Judges

List the names of those whose judgement you fear, and next to each, what they can actually do.

Your Debt on One Page

Write every debt onto one sheet: who, how much is left, at what rate, when it is due. Total it up.

How Many Days Without a Salary

Work out how many days you would last if the salary stopped arriving tomorrow. One number.

What It Costs to Go to Work

Add up the costs that exist only because of your job and subtract them from your pay. Find your real hourly rate.

Subscriptions, Counted by the Year

Find every recurring charge in three months of statements, multiply each by twelve and look at the yearly total.