4 years ago now I was thinking about my 30th birthday looming on the horizon. I had a little look through my mental checklist of things to do before I reached 30 and I realised I had pretty much done what I had wanted, married, family, work etc. But there were 3 things I still wanted to get done.
1) Get fit
2) Do something BIG for charity
3) See the Great Wall of China
Long story short this lead me to train for and run the Great Wall Marathon for the Charity Open Doors.
Having this list spurred me on to do something amazing I would not have otherwise done, so I have been thinking. What do I want to have done before I am 40? So here I have come up with a list of 40 things to try and do in the next 7 years before the cake and balloons. I don't plan to do these in order by the way, just to tick them off as I go.
1) Write and publish a book. This could be an eBook, but comment below if you can think what it should be.
2) Sell one of my peices of Art. An actual physical peice, the ones people have bought and downloaded online do not count.
3) Get ordained. Yes I know this is in hand already and could be thought of as an easy one but here it is anyway.
4) Build something from scratch (again, ideas on a post card)
5) Go to the continent of Africa
6) Begin to treat evening as the beginning of the next day (in the old Jewish tradition)
7) Learn a new skill
8) And the the same vein learn to play an instrument (a mouth harp is an instrument right?)
9) Brew a beer (hop, nettle or ginger I don't care)
10) Fix and then ride, my bike
11) Run another Marathon
12) Watch all the Lord of the Rings extended editions, back to back.
13) Learn a silly skill (yo yo, coin twirling, magic or something)
14) Appear on TV (being interviewed, as an extra in a film or program or showing something weird on Antiques Road Show)
15) Ride in a Hot Air balloon
16) Host a dinner party
17) Read more ( a hard one to tick off as it is not easily quantifyable, so maybe 1 book a month)
18) Begin learning a language
19) Get fit (ties in with the marathon thing)
20) Take the kids to Florida (just for them of course, not me)
21) Read the Bible, the whole thing
22) Go on a pilgrimage
23) Visit Paris
24) Visit Rome
25) Go to a posh/famous restaurant
26) See the Lion King stage show
27) Visit New York
28) Make my own Biltong/Jerky
29) Go on a Safari (preferably in a vehicle I don't own)
30) Take a cruise
31) Say YES to Something I have previously said NO to
32) Have a PROPPER clear out
33) Sleep under the stars again
34) Visit my Brother more often
35) Own a Ferret
36) Complete a photo project (see next post)
37) Teach Sprog 1 and Sprog 2 to ride their bikes
38) Attend the Greenbelt festival as a punter, not a worker
39) Create a family recipe book
40) Make a 50 before 50 list!
1) Get fit
2) Do something BIG for charity
3) See the Great Wall of China
Long story short this lead me to train for and run the Great Wall Marathon for the Charity Open Doors.
Having this list spurred me on to do something amazing I would not have otherwise done, so I have been thinking. What do I want to have done before I am 40? So here I have come up with a list of 40 things to try and do in the next 7 years before the cake and balloons. I don't plan to do these in order by the way, just to tick them off as I go.
1) Write and publish a book. This could be an eBook, but comment below if you can think what it should be.
2) Sell one of my peices of Art. An actual physical peice, the ones people have bought and downloaded online do not count.
3) Get ordained. Yes I know this is in hand already and could be thought of as an easy one but here it is anyway.
4) Build something from scratch (again, ideas on a post card)
5) Go to the continent of Africa
6) Begin to treat evening as the beginning of the next day (in the old Jewish tradition)
7) Learn a new skill
8) And the the same vein learn to play an instrument (a mouth harp is an instrument right?)
9) Brew a beer (hop, nettle or ginger I don't care)
10) Fix and then ride, my bike
11) Run another Marathon
12) Watch all the Lord of the Rings extended editions, back to back.
13) Learn a silly skill (yo yo, coin twirling, magic or something)
14) Appear on TV (being interviewed, as an extra in a film or program or showing something weird on Antiques Road Show)
15) Ride in a Hot Air balloon
16) Host a dinner party
17) Read more ( a hard one to tick off as it is not easily quantifyable, so maybe 1 book a month)
18) Begin learning a language
19) Get fit (ties in with the marathon thing)
20) Take the kids to Florida (just for them of course, not me)
21) Read the Bible, the whole thing
22) Go on a pilgrimage
23) Visit Paris
24) Visit Rome
25) Go to a posh/famous restaurant
26) See the Lion King stage show
27) Visit New York
28) Make my own Biltong/Jerky
29) Go on a Safari (preferably in a vehicle I don't own)
30) Take a cruise
31) Say YES to Something I have previously said NO to
32) Have a PROPPER clear out
33) Sleep under the stars again
34) Visit my Brother more often
35) Own a Ferret
36) Complete a photo project (see next post)
37) Teach Sprog 1 and Sprog 2 to ride their bikes
38) Attend the Greenbelt festival as a punter, not a worker
39) Create a family recipe book
40) Make a 50 before 50 list!
22 and 24 could run together...
ReplyDeleteor 22 and 19 if you fancy Sant Iago de Compostela
The intention is to kill as many birds with one stone as possible
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