Medium quests

Secret kindness agent

Buy coffee or food for next person in line

Compliment stranger

Give 3 genuine compliments to strangers

Talk to stranger

Start real conversation with stranger in cafe or park

Lunch with colleague

Invite colleague you don't usually talk to for lunch

Volunteering

Dedicate hour to volunteer help

Call parents

Call parents or close ones just to say you love them

Teach someone

Teach someone skill you know

Ask for advice

Ask stranger for advice

Music from nothing

Create rhythm or melody from objects around you

Improvisation

Tell story, making it up as you go

Culinary experiment

Cook dish from cuisine you've never tried cooking

Blind portrait

Draw portrait without looking at paper

Cold shower

Take cold shower for at least 2 minutes

Without GPS

Get to place without GPS, navigating by memory

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

Ice face

Dip face in cold water for 30 seconds

Digital detox

Delete one app that steals your time

New skill

Spend 30 minutes learning something completely new

Master class

Take online lesson on topic of interest

Get lost on purpose

Walk in random direction for 30 minutes

Mini trip

Go to neighboring city for day

Random event

Go to random event in city

New transport

Try type of transport you've never used

Anonymous kindness

Do good deed anonymously

Help shelter

Help at animal or homeless shelter

Mentoring

Offer help to beginner in your field

Three Oranges

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

Rule of the Third

First thought is reflex. Second is habit. Third is you.

Elephant in a Month

Take one enormous task and break it into 30 steps

Performance

Perform for one person — poem, joke, mini speech

Victory Lap

Recall three of your wins from this year and tell someone about them

Anonymous Gift

Do something good for someone — so they don't know who it was from

Teach Someone One Thing

Take something you know how to do and pass it on to one person

Thank a Stranger

Find someone who did something good and thank them genuinely

9 Papers

Take 9 pieces of paper. On each one, write a wish or event — strange, unusual, something that's not like you, but makes something click inside. Roll them up, hide them in pockets, and forget. A few hours later, pull out exactly three. That's your quest. Complete it today. Maximum — three days.

Comfortable Jump

Think of one thing you've wanted to do for a long time but haven't dared. Not scary — pleasant. Call that person. Visit that place. Say that word. Do it today. Not tomorrow. Just take it and do it.

Not My Style

Do something today that's completely unlike you. Order a dish you've never tried. Talk to a stranger. Take a different bus. It doesn't matter what — the point is that it clicks inside: 'this isn't me'. That's exactly why — do it.

Find a Penguin

Find a penguin today. Any way you can. Fly to Antarctica, visit a zoo, or just spot one on a shop window, someone's t-shirt, or a logo. Find three — and you're a legend. Photograph each one.

Fried Cucumbers

Have you ever had Asian-style fried cucumbers? No? It's delicious. Your task — try them. Cook them yourself, find them in a restaurant, ask a friend to teach you. Photograph the plate before and after.

Unreadable

Find food with a name you can't read. In a store, at a market, in a restaurant, at a gas station in another country — anywhere. Don't google it. Just take it and try. Trust.

Envelope

Take an envelope. Put a small bill inside and a letter: 'Hi. I don't know who you are. If you need this money — take it. If not — leave it for someone else or add your own.' Sign however you want — a riddle, a drawing, or simply: GPM. Leave the envelope where someone who needs it will find it.

Your Song

Go to suno.com. Can't sing? You don't need to. Write lyrics — about anything — and AI will turn it into a song. Already tried? Make a song about kindness. Share it with us.

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.

Left Hand

Live one hour with your left hand. If you're left-handed — your right. Brush teeth, write, eat, open doors. Your brain will resist. That's neuroplasticity in action.

Radius Trip

Visit a city exactly 150km away and eat there

Lottery Hunt

Buy 5 tickets in 5 different locations

Theater Night

Go to a movie or play alone

Course Start

Buy that online course or book and finish Chapter 1

Gift for 3

Buy small gifts/flowers for 3 random people

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.

Bird care

Make a bird feeder and hang it in a park.

Childhood portal

Visit a place connected to your childhood.

Driving master

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

Knock on the door

Introduce yourself to a neighbor whose name you don't know.

Mini gathering

Invite 2-3 neighbors for tea or coffee.

Random question

Ask a stranger "What surprised you today?" and really listen.

Switch roles

Talk to a waiter, cashier or cleaner as if they were a VIP guest.

Card game in the park

Take a deck of cards and invite a stranger to play.

Language bridge

Say thank you in the native language of a person from another country.

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 "no" for an hour

For one hour say yes to everything reasonable. Accept and find a way.

Record your voice

Record a 2-minute voice message to yourself about today.

Book oracle

Take any book, open to a random page — that's your advice for today.

Day on the water

Spend your next day off at a lake or sea — on the water itself: a boat in summer, skates or a walk on safe ice in winter.

Wish socks

Find the funniest socks in a store. While searching, make a wish that could come true within months. At home, put the socks on your hands and go about your day for at least 3 hours, recalling the wish now and then.

Oyster day

Dedicate a day to oysters: a farm, gathering them yourself, a restaurant, or a couple from the shop

Wine, cheese, tomatoes

A tasting built on pairings: three cheeses, three kinds of tomato, and what goes with them

A role for one day

Pick an ordinary day and play the person you want to become — don't believe it, act it

Tartare, made by you

Raw beef, a knife instead of a grinder, capers and an egg yolk. Buy the meat from a butcher and only today's

Plov for two pairs of hands

Real plov in a cauldron — but with someone else, always. The point is three hours over one pot, not the recipe

Mämmi

A Finnish Easter dessert of rye malt. It looks alarming and is served with cream and sugar

Haggis

Scottish sheep offal in a stomach, with turnip and potato. The taste is calmer than the description

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

Peking duck

A ritual for several people: skin apart, meat in a pancake, sauce, spring onion. In a good place they carve it in front of you

Korean hot soup

Yukgaejang or kimchi jjigae, and no asking them to tone it down. Rice and water alongside are part of the plan

Tom yum from scratch

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

Dolma three ways

Armenian, Azerbaijani and Greek — side by side, in one evening. The argument over whose it is outlives us all

Kimchi you fermented

Salt the cabbage and leave it to ferment. Then two weeks of waiting and tasting each day as it changes

5:30

Get up at 5:30 tomorrow. No phone — go outside and see what the city looks like before everyone

A day as a rich person

Live one day the way you would if it had already worked out: the clothes, the breakfast, the restaurant, the test drive

Leave the comfort zone the pleasant way

Do the good thing you have long wanted but kept postponing out of awkwardness. Not scary — just unfamiliar

A letter of forgiveness

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

An animal

No pet — get one. Got one — donate to a shelter, volunteer there, or drive to a farm and offer a hand

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.

A Day No One Sees

Spend a day off with nobody knowing what you're doing: no updates, photos or stories.

The Other Butter

Buy the expensive version of something you get every week. Then work out what the difference actually was.

Cover the Prices

In a cafe, cover the price column and choose what you actually want. Uncover it only once you've decided.

Thanks for What You Didn't Do

Thank someone for what they didn't do: didn't leave, didn't judge, didn't tell anyone.

The Silence After

Ask for something, then stay silent. No softening, no excuses, until they answer.

No, No Reason

Turn something down today and give no reason at all. Just: no, I can't.

Praise Behind Their Back

Say something good about someone — not to them, but to their boss, parent or team.

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 Fitting Room

Try on the clothes of the person you could have been. Buy nothing.

Resignation in the Drawer

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

The Witness

Call someone who knew you at fifteen and ask who you were going to become.

Box of the Old You

Box up the objects of the role you've outgrown and put them out of sight for a week.

Not Your Chair

At dinner or at work, take a seat that isn't your usual one. Explain nothing.

Let Me Think

On the first request you'd say yes to without thinking, say: give me an hour.

The Banned Phrase

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

Don't Start It

With someone close, don't open the conversation and don't rush to fill the silence.

The Word "Should"

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

Ask Again

Ask someone close your usual daily question — then, after the usual answer, ask it again for real.

Reply After Lunch

Leave the first message of the morning unanswered until lunch. Then reply without explaining the gap.

The Number You Never Look At

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

The Message That Is Six Months Old

Find a message you left unanswered months ago and answer it today.

The Photo You Hide

Set a photo where you do not like how you look as your avatar for one day.

Table for One

Eat in a restaurant alone, at a table in the room, with no phone and no book.

I Was Wrong, in Writing

Write to someone that in that old argument you were the one who was wrong. With no but.

A Day Without Sorry

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

Show the Unfinished

Send three people the thing you make for the drawer, exactly as raw as it is now.

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.

Cancel One Subscription

Pick one subscription and take the cancellation all the way to the confirmation email. Today, not at period end.

Take the Card Out of the Shops

Delete your saved cards from shops, the browser and delivery apps. Keep only the ones tied to a subscription.

A Cash-Only Day

Withdraw a fixed sum in cash in the morning, leave the card and phone payments at home, and live the day on it.

Sell One Thing Today

List something you do not use and take it all the way to money landing in your account.

The Debts That Are Not Money

List everything you owe people that is not money — a thing, a favour, an answer — and return one today.