There are two things I firmly believe everyone should try once.
1. Travel solo. It's not for everybody, but everybody should try it. You can discover so many things about yourself on these solo adventures. Also, if you have problems making decisions, like I do, you're now alone and forced to make the decisions or you'll starve. I don't like to starve.
2. Make a list of things to tick off one year. It doesn't have to be serious, but it can be. It doesn't have to be goofy, but it can be. It doesn't have to be attainable, but it can be. It's whatever is going to make you smile, make you dream, and inspire you to achieve.
I never complete my list. Hell, I never complete more than a handful of items on my list. But every year, I'll create a new one because it makes me smile, it makes me dream, and sometimes, just sometimes, it inspires me to achieve.
1. Travel solo. It's not for everybody, but everybody should try it. You can discover so many things about yourself on these solo adventures. Also, if you have problems making decisions, like I do, you're now alone and forced to make the decisions or you'll starve. I don't like to starve.
2. Make a list of things to tick off one year. It doesn't have to be serious, but it can be. It doesn't have to be goofy, but it can be. It doesn't have to be attainable, but it can be. It's whatever is going to make you smile, make you dream, and inspire you to achieve.
I never complete my list. Hell, I never complete more than a handful of items on my list. But every year, I'll create a new one because it makes me smile, it makes me dream, and sometimes, just sometimes, it inspires me to achieve.
- Dip my toes into all 5 oceans
- Discover a company from every Province & Territory and support them
- Run a 10 km in under an hour
- Skate at an airport hangar
- Skate every day
- Get Padi certified
- Stage an epic Lego vs. Peeps battle
- Learn an insult and a compliment in 10 languages
- On every run, 20 lunges when you pass a school, 20 pushups when you pass a hospital, 20 squats when you pass a church
- Find out who the Drunk Socialites were
- Swing from a chandelier
- Buy fun socks from every destination you travel to
- Make a fruitcake recipe from every continent
- Get a fruit infusion pitcher and make fancy water
- Float in a pool of water and have somebody toss food on my belly, just like an otter
- Run an ultra fueled by Japanese food
- Do a cartwheel on roller skates
- Become at peace with small boats on rivers
- Do the splits. Accidentally on roller skates totally counts
- Ride the Confederation Trail in PEI
- Spend Christmas on a beach drinking eggnog daiquiris
- Circumnavigate an island, a mountain, and a lake
- Pitch a tent on a sandy beach and eat marshmallows
- Cannonball off a dock
- Find a way to make the French Carousel Pig mine. I will name him Sébastien
- Spend one day a week cleaning some part of your apartment
- Travel somewhere you need lessons on the wildlife in order to not die
- Marie Kondo your world
- Find a new Subscription Box
- Go on a roadside diner road trip
- Sleep in a treehouse
- Research living in a float home
- Bundle up in a hammock surrounded by snow and watch the Northern Lights
- Run a McDonald's Cheeseburger Mile
- Be somebody's muse
- Take part in the World Custard Pie Championship in Coxheath, UK
- Send a letter to a random address
- Find all the cutest outhouses
- Run across a country
- Investigate an urban legend
- Swim in a pink lake
- Spend more time on the Cypress Mountain Bike Trails
- Delve into why I hear voices screaming at me to get out in churches
- Leave a note in every library book for the next reader
- Run after an ice cream truck yelling, ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM!
- Create a bullet journal for all the places you want to travel
- Find a local farmer to buy meat from
- Make a tapestry headboard
- Host a taco bar night
- Sit on the dock of the bay, wasting time.
- Run 50 laps of BC Place
- Slide down a firehouse pole
- Date. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA