Tuesday, 17 August 2010

The life list: 101 things to do

This is the list. It's raw and, at the time of writing, has 81 of the 101 items it needs. The other 20 will be added once I know what they are. Detailed descriptions of each will be posted seperately in this blog as I start to work on them. For now, here's the list in plain form.

1. Start a blog on your 101 must-do items DONE!

2. Write your life-story, create your family-tree

3. Camp out overnight*

4. Practise 5 survival skills*

5. Plant a tree or a hedge*

6. Go away for a week with just carry-on luggage

7. Learn Russian

8. Host a cocktail party offering 20 different cocktails

9. Meditate for 3 hours in one go

10. Spend a week at sea

11. Write a short screenplay

12. Help a charity on christmas day

13. Cruise the Norwegian fjords

14. Fast for 5 days

15. Write to your favourite celebrity

16. Ride an elephant

17. Learn to sail

18. Meet one of your favourite celebrities (a book-signing counts)

19. Fire a real gun

20. Attend the Olympics

21. Visit the birthplace of my ancestors*

22. Watch a space-shuttle launch*

23. Set up a reinvestment process that requires an hour per year's effort

24. Do a stand-up comedy act*

25. Learn to ballroom dance*

26. Learn salsa

27. Work out what constitutes a perfect day - then live it*

28. Read 12 Booker Prize novels that you haven't already read

29. Discover - and write down - what makes you truly happy

30. Write 20 poems

31. Be an extra in a film*

32. Get your blog into the Technorati top 1000

33. Earn £3000 in a month on-line

34. Have family rituals and traditions to celebrate holidays and important life events

35. Grow cactii

36. Attend the Grand National

37. Start a Celtic/Anglo-Saxon cultural organisation

38. Do a 365-day challenge (meditate, 30-minute yoga, read a poem...)

39. Make money in a property deal

40. Know your digital camera and your MP3 player inside out

41. Create a website: 500 places you HAVE to see or do in England

42. Time yourself 3 times swimming 10 lengths; then reduce the average time by 20%

43. As 42 but for the 100-metre sprint

44. Learn the proper way to press a shirt and trousers

45. Properly identify the 6 most common British birds and know something about each of them

46. Make a new friend (exchange email/phone number) every month for a year

47. Pass a grade exam for piano

48. Learn how to speed read*

49. Help Mrs Dashed lose those 5 kgs

50. Identify 12 highly effective creativity techniques

51. Successfully use self-hypnosis

52. Place in top 10% of a 5km run*

53. Be able to sell yourself in a 60-second elevator-pitch about YOU

54. Devise 6 planning and time management rules then field-test them for 30 days*

55. Spend a day naked at a nudist beach

56. Collect 50 real-life interesting/funny anecdotes

57. Compete in a triathlon (Maybe)

58. Take a course in domestic plumbing

59. Host a party or gathering yourself once a weekend for 4 weekends

60. Create a club - eg a mastermind team, bookreading club - with at least 8 regular attendees

61. Learn how to change a wheel

62. Make £1000 in one month trading foreign exchange or similar

63. Write your 25-year life plan

64. Become an above-average pool player

65. Learn how to make 5 traditional British puddings

66. Own a piece of original art that I truly love

67. Visit Stonehenge for the summer solstice

68. Compile a list of items that would be on this list if I hadn't already done them

69. Develop an obviously athletic physique - before and after photos required

70. Create a list of 10 ways you can shift your mood out of lethargy or unhappiness

71. Find 25 things you can do with Mrs D that are fun or romantic

72. Attend a cookery course

73. Write your novel

74. Explore a cave

75. Learn to surf

76. Choose your ultimate 6 books and 100 articles on self-development

77. Learn how to fight

78. Improve your reading speed by 33%

79. Double your typing speed

80. Do an Outward Bound (or similar) holiday

81. Build an igloo
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82. Learn to throw a shuriken

83. Watch a trial

84. Learn how to work a room.

85. Select your favourite 50 blogs, add them to your Readers and then do not read any other blog

86. Put on a 15-minute magic show for friends

87. Reconstruct your clapped-out computer

88. Mine for gold - and go home with some
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