40 Things To Do Before I'm 40: October's Hit List

Sunday, October 12, 2008

October's Hit List

Something very strange is happening to me at the moment. All the jobs that I've been putting off for ever and a day, I'm suddenly completing. My wedding dress is now dry cleaned and boxed, I've applied for my passport to be changed in my new name and all my filing system is updated at work.

So I'm applying the same principles to my 40 things list. Each month I'm going to set myself a few targets to complete and hopefully I will be able to chisel away at my outstanding tasks.

October's Hit List is as follows:-

Complete Bleak House (BBC Top 100 read)

Re-book balloon ride for next year

Update Radio Nottingham

Book New York Trapeze School

Organise New York Itinerary

Hit 50,000 words on my novel

I figured if I broke my list down into bite sized pieces, that it won't seem so huge a task to complete. I'll let you know how I do......

2 comments:

Graham Ettridge said...: WOW! I want a list like that! Just the trip to New York would do me fine at this point. I send you loads of kind wishes with your success at achieving them all! I am definitely going to take a leaf out of your book and write myself a list that will kick off on 01.01.2009. You are a true inspiration Jannete!!!!

Hope you have a wonderful week ahead xx; October 12, 2008 at 8:50 PM
Janette said...: G - it's comments like that, that keep me going. Thank you for your kind words and I look forward to seeing your list!; October 14, 2008 at 6:24 AM

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The List

1) Learn a foreign language - in progress
2) Watch a foreign film - completed
3) Go skinny dipping
4) Snog Take That
5) Write a novel and get published - in progress
6) Go in a hot air balloon - completed
7) Work in Africa
8) Go to an international football match in the new Wembley - completed
9) Visit all 50 states of America - in progress (4/50)
10) Get my own column in a newspaper/magazine
11) Win a BAFTA
12) Do a sponsored hike/bike ride for charity - completed
13) Read all of the BBC Top 100 reads - completed
14) Go to Wimbledon - completed
15) Rescue an animal from captivity - in progress
16) Be a Mum
17) Go to a Paul Smith fashion show
18) Watch the Lord Of The Rings trilogy - completed
19) Go surfing - completed
20) Go to the ballet - completed
21) See a Shakespearean play at the RSC in Stratford - completed
22) Drive a Ferrari - completed
23) Have tea at the Ritz in London - completed
24) Create a short film to go onto You Tube - completed
25) Learn to do the tango - completed
26) Meet Mr T
27) Own a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes - completed
28) Be in Times Square, NY at midnight on New Years Eve - completed
29) Write a script/story for Dr Who - completed
30) Ride on a Harley Davidson to Ayres Rock
31) Go to an ice hockey match - completed
32) Go to a baseball match - completed
33) Watch a Nottingham Forest match from an executive box - completed
34) Learn to play chess - completed
35) Fly a trapeze - completed
36) See Rick Springfield in concert
37) Fly over the Grand Canyon - completed
38) Watch all of the James Dean films - completed
39) Cook with a celebrity chef
40) Go to the Grand Prix