Wake up, go to class, go to work, go to class again, do homework, watch TV, go to bed, repeat.

If your life feels very much the same day after day and you feel like nothing exciting ever happens, consider how you talk about it. Producer of NPR’s “This American Life” Ira Glass said, “great stories happen to those who can tell them.”

In saying this, I don’t think Glass just means that only people who are great storytellers have exciting things happen in their life. He’s saying the way you talk about your life impacts how you view it and how others view it. One way to improve your life is simply to tell more stories, it will make life seem more exciting and it will help you forge friendships

To make your life more exciting, start by talking about the mundane things that happen as if they were the craziest and funniest things in the world.

Whether it’s the fact that you tripped on the stairs in front of the Kirkhof Center or heard some guy on the bus listening to “Single Ladies” through his headphones, the small things in your day are story worthy. Go home to your friends and tell them a story about how you dramatically forgot about that last step, bumped your foot into the cement, almost tumbled to the ground and quickly looked around to see if anyone had noticed, luckily they hadn’t.

Despite the fact that nothing entirely crazy happened, you didn’t get arrested or see aliens land, you’ve told the story like something interesting happened. Once you tell a lot of stories in your life as though they’re interesting, you’ll start to feel like you have a lot of really great things going on in your life.

If you’ve ever seen “How I Met Your Mother,” you know it’s possible to take a story where nothing happens and stretch it into an incredibly long story that eventually fills an entire episode and ends up with some lesson to learn. And if you’ve ever seen the show, you know that people will continue to listen to the stories because they’ve told the story as though it’s interesting.

Just like the nine seasons of “How I Met Your Mother” brought in a large audience, your stories will too. Whether it’s a roommate you don’t know very well, your coworker or that kid you sit next to in class, telling a story about something small in your day can help to build friendships. Telling the story of how you barely embarrassed yourself in front of the boss or that pun your professor told today shows the person you’re interested in talking to them.

Telling stories also helps people to get to know you, they’ll learn about your hobbies and the activities you’re involved in and they’ll learn about the things you think are funny and interesting. Some of my best friends now are random people who I’ve been telling stories to about the small moments in my life.

Take the small things in life and make them sound dramatic and exciting, tell the stories about your life as though they’re exciting. Telling stories will help you get to know the people around you and will make you feel more positive and excited about your life.