Here it is. 50 challenges by the time I’m 50. 50 things in just one year. As I complete each challenge I’ll create a link to a post on how I did it.
- Raise at least £5,000 for charity – started 05/08/15
- Swim with sharks!!!
- Go dancing in the rain
- Do the Boxing Day Dip – Complete
- Send a book around the World – Complete
- Write a book
- Learn another language
- Take a Burlesque dance class
- See the Northern Lights
- Own an otter
- Go on safari and see the Big 5
- Visit Stonehenge – Complete
- Start my own business
- Lose 2 stone in a year – started 25/01/16
- Be in the audience of a TV show – Complete
- Go to Ladies Day at the races
- Be a TV or Movie extra
- Visit Robben Island
- Spend a day in the Houses of Parliament
- Take a ferry across the Mersey
- Drive a Ferrari
- Zip wire off the Tyne Bridge
- Get a tattoo
- Buy an item of clothing from a charity shop that isn’t my usual style and wear it
- Register as a line up person at the police station
- Go on a blind date
- Swim in the Fairy Pools of Skye
- Sleep under the stars
- Go blonde for a day, week or month
- Invest in the stock market
- Take up Laughter Yoga and laugh every day
- Go on a road trip
- Fire walk
- Volunteer in a Soup Kitchen
- Pay for a strangers coffee, tea, drink or lunch
- Break a Guinness World Record
- Forgive, forget and move on – started 04/08/15 – ok I cheated and started a day early but I got the chance so I did it
- Perform a kind deed at least once a week without being asked – started 05/08/15
- Become a mentor to someone
- Volunteer in a hospice or hospital
- Send a message in a bottle to make friends with a stranger – Complete
- Donate the free item to the food bank when buying 2 for 1 or 3 for 2 offers – started 05/08/15
- 365 Day Photo Challenge – started 05/08/15
- Take a conflict resolution course
- Make a memory book of my life for my Grandchildren
- Become an organ donor – Complete
- Learn CPR
- Write my Will – Complete
- Learn to meditate
- Learn the Heimlich Manoeuvre
Click on the links below to find out why these made it on the list.
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This is a great site and I really enjoy it very much. For your readers I have an very helpful Facebook fanpage. Thanks.
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Great list! Most intriged by tattoo – what image and where?
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Not sure yet Helen. I’m thinking of a dove carrying an olive branch on the back of my shoulder but not sure as I’m ever so slightly terrified.
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Also, tips on the Boxing Day dip: Wear every piece of neoprene you can possibly lay hands on. Rash vest underneath, wetsuit, wetsuit jacket, neoprene socks, neoprene boots, neoprene hood, neoprene gloves, you get the idea.
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I’m up for the swimming with sharks 🙂
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Thanks Ken. Do you have any pictures of you with the teddy bear in Alice Springs? I’m still trying to decide which book to leave as I want something I love but that will appeal to a range of people.
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I like the book bit arounf the world. I took a teddy bear to Alice Springs for a thing that the scouts were doing,
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