As someone in my mid-thirties, I’m kind of conscious about forty fast approaching, and it makes me reflect on all the things I always wanted to do and haven’t gotten around to. I started thinking about writing this list and I realised I didn’t have anything like forty things I still want to achieve.
With that in mind, I’ve put together a list of some of the things I’ve done that I said I wanted to do before I was thirty, some of the things I’d like to do before I’m forty and some of the things other people have told me are on their bucket lists.
Forty Things to Do Before You’re Forty
1 Start a blog
2 Write a book
3 Read 100 books in a year
4 Go skydiving
5 Go bungee jumping
6 Travel to each continent
7 Visit every US state
8 See the seven wonders of the world
9 Throw a party
10 Make a cake from scratch
11 Knit a jumper
12 Take a dance class
13 Learn a foreign language
14 Go to Disneyland
15 Live abroad
16 Go travelling for a year
17 Drink a really good wine
18 Volunteer for a charity
19 Drive a racing car
20 Learn to fly a plane
21 Take a helicopter ride
22 Camp out
23 Read the classics
24 Take a poetry class
25 Enter a talent show
26 Do something that scares you
27 Go scuba diving
28 Go deep sea diving
29 Go on a cruise
30 Learn to sail
31 Learn to drive
32 Ride a motorcycle
33 Have a spa break
34 Go on a retreat
35 Have a same sex holiday
36 Spend some time travelling in your own country
37 Take up a new hobby
38 Dye your hair a colour you’ve always wanted but never dared have
39 Get a tattoo
40 Have a photoshoot done
I’ve done seventeen of these things and there are eleven that I still want to do although whether I’ll actually get them done before I’m forty is another matter.
How many of these have you done? Which ones do you want to do? Anything you would add to the list? Let me know in the comments 🙂
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Some of these are far too extreme for me.. like skydiving etc. I hope you manage to achieve them! I think I’ve only personally checked off 6 of these and that was over the course of my life.
I’d love to do it!
Great list, my fave on there is “drink a really good wine” – I’m definitely with you on that one ha ha!! I’ve not done skydiving but I have done a bungee jump and I would never do another! Why did I think dangling upside down from a bridge with elastic tied to my ankles was a good idea?! I hope you manage them all Debbie.xxx
Haha the wine thing has to be done right! When you put it that way, it doesn’t sound like such a fab idea haha x