28 Things
It's my 28th birthday, and I've decided to share 28 things I'm going to do in the next year…
- Blog daily. One of my aims is to document the build-up to the next expedition – the training, the preparation of gear/food/etc – on a day-by-day basis. I'll probably start this late next month, with a 12-month countdown…
- Get some swim coaching. I'm useless at front crawl, and I'm going to need to change this on order to…
- Complete an Ironman triathlon. I'm not sure which one yet – maybe New Zealand or South Africa. Watch this space.
- Eat organic.
- Go to bed earlier. I've been averaging 1am recently.
- Get up earlier. Averaging 8am. Not enough zzzzs.
- Give ten presentations for free (to state schools, charities and youth groups).
- Learn about China. I know most of the States in America, but I couldn't tell you anything about China's 22 Provinces.
- Call my mum more often.
- Eat lower GI food.
- Race the Ballbuster Duathlon.
- Start using my Flickr account.
- Learn to cook.
- Learn to dance. (For me, this is probably the scariest of the 28.)
- Learn to say no.
- Learn to ask for (more) money.
- Learn to deal with confrontation. (See point 17.)
- Learn to *never* sign a contract without getting a lawyer to look at it. (See point 16.)
- Finish the Expedition Resources section of this website.
- Get my VO2 MAX to 65ml/kg/min. (This will only mean something to the fitness geeks amongst you. I'm around 60 at the moment.)
- Start writing a book.
- Take self-defence lessons. (Probably Krav Maga.)
- Do some commercial web design. And then…
- Open a savings account. (And pay into it!) I have no savings right now. No pensions, no investments, nada.
- Stretch more.
- Stay on top of my emails. I'm getting a shed-load of email nowadays, and it's going to take a bit of focus, discipline and ruthlessness to stop the inbox overflowing again (I've answered 338 emails in the last seven days).
- Speak more. Professionally, I mean – motivational and after dinner speaking.
- Take my mum to New York. I promised her this years ago. It's one of my favourite cities and she'd love it.
— Filed under Rumination