A Bucket List...40 Before 40

Oh MY!!!  I didn't realize I hadn't posted this.  I only wrote it months and months ago. So here it is my 40 before 40 list with notes on what is already done. 

Bucket List – 40 Things To Do Before I Turn 40

ADVENTURE/EXPERIENCE

Complete an Ironman Triathlon in under 12 hours - goal of 2017

Run a Marathon in under 4 hours - to do in 2017

Skydiving - on my 40th birthday 2017

Become a better dancer (Country Two Step, West/East Coast Swing)

Experience the Aurora Borealis - when I go to Iceland, fingers crossed

Learn how to Hang Glide

Take a Flight in a Glider Plane

Swim with Sea Turtles - when I go to Australia and swim in the Great Barrier Reef

Go Zorbing - summer 2014???

Learn to drag my knee on my motorcycle

CAREER/EDUCATION

Make video blogs for my business

Complete my patent and start producing it…any investors out there???

Make fitness videos (sorry can’t tell what they are yet) and get them out for people to use.

COMMUNITY

Pay it forward (buy someones groceries, pay their bridge toll, ect.) - In December 2013, I left a $20 tip with a cashier at Whole Foods for the mom with a little baby in line behind me.

Leave encouraging notes in books for others to find

Provide work clothes for economically disadvantaged women through Dress for Success

Volunteer at a soup kitchen on 2 major family holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day

Perform random acts of kindness every week

Help Build a house for Habitat for Humanity

FAMILY

Become close with my sister and mother

Call my mother and sister on a weekly/biweekly basis

FINANCIAL

Pay off all debt except school loan, and mortgage

Break the 6 digit salary barrier

PERSONAL

Make deeper meaningful connections with people in my life

Make a child laugh uncontrollably

Never Stop Learning, Dreaming, hoping, and NEVER give up…

Become a better photographer, and sell some stuff

Inspire others through kindness, sharing and video/quote/book

GO an entire month without eating ANY chocolate

Learn to live more simplistically/minimally - June 2014 (almost there)

Spend time with people who inspire me, then share that with people I care about

Take my father to Ireland, spread his ashes both in Ireland and sailing with his best friends - April 2014 to Ireland

Dance in the rain every chance I get - so far so good

SELF IMPROVEMENT

Learn to forgive and make peace with BOTH myself and others - in process

Get Lost, get totally lost then find yourself - I try to do this on a weekly basis

Be able to Completely Love myself for WHO I am and WHAT I stand for - in process

Learn another Language and Speak it fluently - in process, Swedish

TRAVEL

Travel to Ireland  - April/May 2014 for 12 days with my amazing friend Jeremy T.
Travel to Iceland - September 2016 for 2 weeks!!!

Travel to Scandinavia - October 2013 for 2 weeks!
Scuba Dive the Great Barrier Reef