An oldie but a goodie from Bruce Mau, try at least three things today from the Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.
Written in 1998 by Bruce Mau, the Incomplete Manifesto for Growth was a memorable discovery while I was at school. Pinned to the wall, it became a reassuring list of why half the things I was doing were probably not so terrible after all, and in inspiring list of subversive, counter-rational, and contradictory tactics to keep things interesting.
Do at least three of these things a week and I suspect you'll feel much better for it.
Here are some excerpts that are on my mind at the moment, check out all 43 over at Bruce Mau Design, who have adopted this as their design process.
6. Capture accidents.
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
12. Keep moving.
The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be a part of your practice.
14. Don't be cool.
Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.
24. Avoid software.
The problem with software is that everyone has it.
33. Take field trips.
The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic-simulated environments.