It is now only four years until my 40th birthday and hopefully in this time I will have completed all the items on my #40Before40 list.
One year into the challenge I have completed 4 out of the 40 challenges. This sounds disappointing but several of the challenges are well underway and should be completed sooner rather than later.
The challenges I have already completed are:
- Enter a photography competition
- Go to the Opera
- Go vegan for 3 months
- Watch a series of 24 in 24 hours
Here is an update of where I am with the rest of the as-yet incomplete challenges:
- Pass C2 Goethe German exam – planned for November 2018. My life is currently a sea of German verbs, Grammar and practice exam papers and I am motivated so that I don’t have to take any more German lessons after the start of November.
- Visit 40 countries in Europe – visited 26 out of 40 and at least two more visits planned before the end of 2018.
- Go paragliding
Enter a photography competition –completed on 16.01.2018- Write my will and plan my funeral
- (Re)Learn the flute
- Go alcohol-free for a year
- Watch every movie on iMDB Top 250 Films list – watched 120 out of 250
- Write a novel (at least 50,000 words) – I have a number of ideas that I am currently working on and then I just need to chain myself to a chair and write.
- Beat at least one of my running PBs for 10k, 10 miles, half marathon or marathon – I have been struggling with a knee injury for most of this year so unfortunately I will have to try to complete this next year and hopefully my knee will be fit enough to get me round quickly enough
- Read the Bible cover to cover
Go to the Opera– completed on 04.07.2018- See the Northern Lights
Go vegan for 3 months– completed on 15.07.2018- Have something that I have written published
- Save money for a rainy day
- Write a diary for a year – currently in progress
- Take a Hot Air Balloon ride
- Take part in an Ultra race – I was hoping to do this in 2019 but with the knee injury that I have had in 2018, I might have to wait until 2020
- Throw a birthday party for myself
Watch a series of 24 in 24 hours– completed on 25.11.2017- Learn how to wolf whistle
- Try snowboarding
- Take an overnight sleeper train
- Cook every recipe from one cookbook – currently in progress – completed 60 out of 100 recipes
- Learn how to fold 40 origami designs
- Read 40 novels in German – read 6 out of 40
- Take a wine degustation course
- Read The 40 Books Every Woman Should Read – read 15 out of 40
- Solve a Rubik cube – currently in progress
- Take up a new sport
- Catch, cook and eat a fish
- Make an item of clothing to wear
- Stop biting my nails
- Read 40 non-fiction books – read 6 out of 40
- Fly long-haul business class
- Have a haircut at least 4 times a year – this is in progress but I am not going to tell you every time I have a haircut! That would be far too boring to read about!
- Be able to touch my toes
- Downsize – get rid of anything I don’t need or want by selling, giving away or donating
- Start and maintain my own travel website – the planning for this is well underway and I am hoping to go live in early 2019
Slow and steady progress – I will get there in the end!
Good luck with the list!
Thank you!