So I published this 1 week before I turn 40, I think I’m going to try and hold myself accountable on a list of 50 things I want to do before I’m 50 years old. I’ve got until 4th March, 2034 to do it.
Often these things are as a result of drunken inspiration.
- Go to the Southern Hemisphere.
- Go to Vietnam.
- Go to Innsbruck for a Christmas market.
Watch a cricket match in a foreign country.(read about it here)- Speak at a conference outside the UK & Ireland.
- Watch the Foo Fighters play live.
- Go to the Royal Rumble.
- Learn to solder.
- Go on a game show.
Release a video game.(read about it here)- Pay off the mortgage.
- Write a will.
- Go to the Edinburgh Fringe.
- Watch Iron Maiden play live.
- See Penn & Teller perform.
- Learn a genuinely cool magic trick.
- Watch Shakespeare in Minack Theatre.
- Watch KISS play live.
- Have writing of mine on a subject I love feature in a print magazine.
- Go watch the darts live.
- Have a canal holiday.
- Watch rugby in the Stade de France.
- Watch rugby in Italy.
- Learn to smoke meat.
- Fish all day. Maybe not the act of fishing, but just sit outside by water all day.
- Go on a driving holiday around Ireland.
- Drive the length of France.
- Play Blackjack in Las Vegas.
- Go to see The Lemmings Statue in Dundee.
- Go on one of those holidays where you turn up at the airport and then you find out where to go.
- Explore the West Coast of the United States.
- Eat at a Michelin starred restaurant.
- Sing in a choir.
- Go to Sri Lanka.
- Go to The Crystal Maze Live Experience.
- Go to Wrestle Kingdom.
- Go retro game hunting in Tokyo.
- See The 900.
- Watch a cricket match at Lord’s.
- Go to Giethoorn.
- Watch professional wrestling in Mexico.
- Go to an auction.
- Go to the Galloping Ghost arcade.
- Do one of those eating challenges (I don’t mean complete, just attempt it).
- Go to Mostar.
- Go back to Marrakesh and do it properly.
- Invest into a bricks and mortar business.
- Try to inspire the next generation in some way.