After celebrating another 30-something birthday last October, I got thinking about all of the things I have yet to do in my life. After speaking with friends I decided that I would put a list together of challenges. This is not to be confused with a bucket list. That's far too morbid and I want to make it a bit more difficult for myself by having a deadline. So, I have begun to compile a list of 40 things to do before I'm 40.
Putting this list together has been a challenge itself and it's still not complete. What I plan to do in future blogs is talk about my progress of getting through this list with photographic evidence and relevant links.
Below is the current list. These are in no particular order:
- Learn “Cornflake Girl” by Tori Amos on the piano
- Find 10 geocaches (click here to find out about geocaching)
- Go to a gay club/bar
- Take a drum exam
- Get into the “Never Mind The Buzzcocks” studio audience
- Try steak rare
- Go to Paris
- Turn radio interviews with musicians, undertaken at Radio Northwick Park, into podcasts
- Learn to ride a bike
- Write monthly blogs
- Do 40 radio interviews in total
- Obtain 40 albums in a single year
- Go to Gay Pride
- Donate £40 a year to charities
- Stargaze at an observatory
- Try on a corset
- Visit 40 posh bars in London and ask for tap water
- Do 40 cover versions and post on my YouTube channel
- Do 40 duets
- Go to 40 different places 40 miles from where I live
- Take 40 photos of interesting tattoos with stories about them
- Do something special 1 on 1 with my niece, Lexie, every year
- Learn to play golf
- Lose 40lbs
- Learn a ballroom dance (Waltz or Tango)
- Finish the Cinderella cross-stitch I started in 1992
- Go to Nashville
- Learn Spanish
- Plant a tree
- Go scuba diving
- Teach my housemate how to make chicken soup
- Learn to restring my guitar
- Creative pay-it-forward
- Learn to play poker
- Take part in a sumo-wrestling costume fight
- Buy and build Tower Bridge Lego
As you can see, this is a pretty diverse list of things to do, but I am completely committed to doing them and have already made a good start. There are still 4 items to add on but I can add these throughout the next six and a half years.
Feel free to comment if you have any ideas of what else could be added to the list – within reason, of course.
