Strange as it may sound, you may need to give yourself time to be spontaneous. This is especially true if you have a busy life or are just learning how to be a free-spirited person. If you are having difficulty being spontaneous at first, schedule a few minutes per day, or per week, in which you have nothing planned. Do whatever comes to mind, or nothing at all. Stop to chat with strangers, friends, or coworkers, even if you feel busy. You will enjoy the company, and taking a detour in your day. Be wary of time traps. Some activities, like endlessly surfing television channels you don't really want to watch, or getting lost in a smartphone, can eat up lots of time that could be spent being spontaneous. Don't plan every day. Sometimes we want to do this so that we aren't bored. But if you leave time open, you can discover new things. Try leaving an unplanned weekend, for starters, and use the time to get out of the house and do something you've never done before. A spontaneous and free spirit will look at the world with a child's eyes, thinking about how much one doesn't know, exploring whatever seems interesting, and always asking "why?" and "how?" Give yourself the chance to open up and try new things before making judgments about them. There are many ways to learn and experience new things. A free spirit will seek out these opportunities: Travel to a place you've never been before. Try a new type of cuisine. Get up and dance, right now, whether or not there's any music. Do a routine activity in a different way. Take a different way home for instance, or have your morning coffee on a walk rather than sitting at your breakfast table or in your car. Offer free hugs. Strike up a conversation with a stranger when you're standing in line at a storeyou never know what you might learn, or who you might meet. Take up a new hobby or try to learn a new skill, and don't be afraid of failing, or of what others will think.

Summary: Give yourself time to be spontaneous. Open your mind to spontaneity. Take advantage of opportunities to be spontaneous.

You want to hold the bill as straight as possible between both of your fingers. Hold it taut, but take care not to accidentally pull the bill apart in your hands. Make sure the entire surface of the bill is firmly dragged across the edge of where two planes meet. The goal is to force the wrinkles and folds out of the bill. The corner of a vending machine is a convenient place to try this method, given that the vending machine likely wouldn't accept your bill in the first place. However, any edged surface will do, including wall, desk or table corners. If the corner you are using doesn't seem to be straightening out the bill, try using a corner with a more inclined or sharper edge. If you only run one side of the bill against a corner, you run the risk of creating new folds or bends in the direction you were applying force to the bill. Flip the bill and run the opposite face across the corner same as you did to the first in order to create as much parity as possible. It's difficult to straighten the corners of the bill out using the edge of a wall. When you are done straightening the body of the bill, check the corners for "dog ears," or small bends at the corners of the bill. If a dog ear is present, fold and crease the ear in the opposite direction to try to level out the bend (similar to removing creases from rugs or cloth). Repeat the whole process until the darned vending machine takes your dollar bill. If the machine continues to reject the bill, you might have to use another bill.

Summary: Hold the crumpled bill at each end. Run the dollar bill against a cornered surface. Flip the dollar in your hands and corner the other side. Check the corners of your dollar bill. Repeat until flattened.

Websites created from scratch require a fairly detailed understanding of HTML coding, but you can easily create a website by using a free hosting service like Weebly, Wix, WordPress, or Google Sites. Website creators tend to be much easier for first-time designers to use than HTML. If you do decide to code your own website, you'll need to learn both HTML and CSS coding. If investing the time and energy to create your website doesn't sound appealing, you can also hire a website designer to create your site for you. Freelance designers can cost anywhere between $30 an hour and well over $100 per hour. Before you even open a website creator, you should know approximately how many pages you want your website to have, what the content on each of those pages should be, and the general layout of important pages such as the home page and the "About" page. Your website's pages may be easier to visualize if you draw rough pictures of each of them rather than just determining what content should appear. While there's something to be said for fresh ideas, your website's basic design should follow established guidelines such as the following: Navigation options (e.g., tabs for different pages) should go at the top of the page. If you use a menu icon (), it should be in the top-left corner of the page. If you use a search bar, it should be near the upper-right side of the page. Helpful links (e.g., links to the "About" page or the "Contact Us" page) should go at the very bottom of each page. Whatever text font, color palette, image theme, and design options you choose, make sure that you use the same decision throughout your website. It can be incredibly jarring to see one font or color scheme used for the "About" page when a completely different one was used for the home page. For example, if you exclusively use cool-tone colors for your site's home page, don't implement bright, loud colors on the next page. Keep in mind that using loud or clashing colors, especially when the colors display in a dynamic (e.g., moving) fashion, can evoke epilepsy in a small number of web users. If you decide to use such colors on your site, make sure you add an epilepsy warning before any relevant pages. Placing direct links to important pages on your website at the top of the home page will help direct first-time visitors to the content that matters. Most site creators add these links by default. It's important to make sure that every page on your website is accessible by clicking through options on your website rather than only being accessible via the page's address. Like any other kind of design, website design relies on visually pleasing combinations of color; because of this, picking theme colors which go together is crucial. Black, white, and grey is a good combination if you don't know where to start. Minimalism encourages cool-tone colors, simple graphics, black-on-white text pages, and as little embellishment as possible. Because minimalism requires little in the way of fancy elements, it's an easy way to make your website look professional and attractive without requiring much work. Many website creators will have a "minimalist" theme you can select when setting up your website. An alternative to minimalism is "brutalism", which uses harsher lines, bright colors, bold text, and minimal imagery. Brutalism has less of a following than does minimalism, but depending on your website's content, it may better suit your design needs. Straight lines and grid-locked web elements are safe bets, but making a few unique stylistic decisions will both lend personality to your site and help your site stand out. Don't be afraid to buck trends by placing website elements asymmetrically or using overlapping elements to create a layered appearance. While elegant, sharp corners and squared-off elements (also known as a "card-based" presentation) are less favorable than are rounded, soft elements.
Summary: Determine whether you want to use a website creator. Map out your site. Use intuitive design. Be consistent. Add navigation options. Use colors which complement each other. Consider using a minimalist design. Make unique choices.