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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