Help me write a list!

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CBA to be changed, I've had a horrible year. I turn forty soon and in a but to drag myself out of depression,am writing a list of 50 things to achieve (or give a bloody good go at!), The year i turn forty.

In no particular order:

1. Ride 100
2. Run a marathon
3. Go to Vegas

(NB these are big ones! Want lots of smaller too)

Please help me write my get happy,get forty list

Whatever is achievable for you and will make YOU feel good about yourself- sod everyone else

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Pick an author and read all their work.

Grow some veg and cook a meal with it.

What about some less adventurous things for the winter months, like to learn to crochet, join a choir, work your way through the top ten books to read before you die (on Goodreads), learn to kickbox, dance the tango, play the piano.

Sort out photos/ do a photo book.
Harry Potter world (if that’s your thing)
Go to a show.
Have everyone round for Christmas dinner in September.
Do an art class/ stained glass workshop.
Finish any arts/crafts projects?
Bake something inspired by bake off.
Do fancy icing.
Get a family photo done officially.
Complete a diy project
Ski lesson
Piano/ music lesson
Write to people you love
Volunteer
Go to the races
Master a cartwheel/handstand
Do a zookeeper experience and feed some animals...?

FFS I meant a list of 40 things
I love all these ideas so far

What a great idea. I always wanted to learn to bake bread 🍞but it's still on my to do list. Think of what makes you happy. You don't want to have make lots of chutney if you will never eat it 🌶

Learn to scuba dive. That's what I did the year I turned 40 and it's probably the best thing I ever did.

Climb a mountain.

Get a tattoo, assuming you don't already have any.

Have a tasting menu or do something like buy a really expensive bottle of wine (£40! from a wine merchant) and just enjoy sharing it with your partner or a friend.

Go on a weekend retreat.

1. Ride 100
2. Run a marathon
3. Go to Vegas

4 Sort out photos/ do a photo book. 5 Harry Potter world (if that’s your thing) 6 Go to a show. 7 Have everyone round for Christmas dinner in September. 8 Do an art class/ stained glass workshop. 9 Finish any arts/crafts projects? 10 Bake something inspired by bake off. 11 Do fancy icing. 12 Get a family photo done officially. 13 Complete a diy project 14 Ski lesson 15 Piano/ music lesson 16 Write to people you love 17 Volunteer 18 Go to the races 19 Master a cartwheel/handstand 20 Do a zookeeper experience and feed some animals...? 21 learn to crochet 22 , join a choir, 23 work your way through the top ten books to read before you die (on Goodreads), 24 learn to kickbox, 25 dance the tango 26 grow veg and cook a meal 27 scuba dive 28 climb mountain 29 expensive wine 30 weekend retreat

Help me with 10 more?? Thanks everyone!

Learn to ride a horse
Donate blood
Go on a organised night bike ride

YY to night riding - I've done night mountain biking in the woods, you need really good lights but many bike shops do organised rides for all levels and it's really liberating riding through the woods at night.

You can do team events (or solo/pairs!) where you ride for 24 hours between you - they make a great weekend.

Maybe also some sort of 'tough mudder' event, open water swimming or triathlon?

Holiday somewhere completely different to what you normally do, so camper van round a remote area of the UK - if you haven't been round the Scottish Highlands and Islands before, the remoteness is mindblowing.

At a more down to earth/achievable level considering that a lot of the things on the list might take all your annual leave and/or money, invent a signature cocktail and make a big jug to share with friends.

Are you sure this is a good idea Op? If you don't achieve them will it not make you feel a bit shit? I'd say start with small steps and build yourself up each year!

Start learning a new language
Go on a mini cruise
Go through all paperwork and only keep what's up to date (maybe just me - bank statements from 2013,anyone?)

Do the Elvis Marathon in Vegas, it’s in December I think and combine the two.

Regularly leave 'random act of kindness' notes of encouragement in public places (maybe even just a couple weekly? Thus no added pressure on yourself).

Sounds so insignificant, but it once made a really terrible, upsetting week bearable, and raised a smile, to find a handwritten anonymous post-it note taped on the inside of a bus stop shelter saying:

"Oy, YOU ...yes, I mean YOU ...you're flippin' awesome!
Remember that on a bad day"

Tucked inside books/ inside loo cubicles/ on park benches etc. etc. could be good.

PS
Really hope your depression improves. It's shit. No other word.
Sounds like you've been through the mill.
Maybe a good autumn's right around the corner to compensate a little.

Paint a portrait of someone - could be a celebrity, your family member, yourself...

That's an amazing list!!

But be careful about setting yourself up to fail as some of that is a huge time investment just for 1 thing - maybe aim to do them in the first half is your forties???? Running a marathon for example pretty much takes over all your spare time for 6 months training / eating / stretching / yoga / foam rolling / running.

I'm scooping up ideas for when I'm fifty!!!

Love the random notes of kindness idea! Good work QuinoaWest

If you are not generally arty - do a paint by numbers. I remember them as a child and they were crap but the newer ones have about 40 different colours and I am amazed that the one I did look brilliant quite good from a distance

master some yoga poses

Make something and wear it regularly. Could be anything from a simple pin right up to complex dressmaking.

Teach someone to do something that you can do.

Talk to a stranger.

Do a random act of kindness.

Give blood.

Swim in Wastwater (England's deepest, coldest and cleanest lake)

Meditate on a beach at dawn (doesn't have to be anywhere exotic!)

Sing in public.

Sing solo in public.

Go bat-watching.

Handle a bird of prey.