I have set myself a challenge: for 100 days I will do something every day that pushes me out of my comfort zone… hopefully completing the full 100 before I turn 40.

I have consulted friends far and wide, resulting in the following list of challenges.  It is a work in progress so I reserve the right to change them as the attempt goes on…   New suggestions or challenges are always very welcome!

I’ll aim to blog about each as I go; post some photos; and, if my technical abilities permit, I will include the facility for folk to comment and tell me what you want more of.   But for now, here’s the list:

1. Start a blog
2. Put the children in charge for a day
3. Try Zumba
4. Cycle through floods
5. Make a Battenberg cake
6. Interact on social media for 3 hours.  (Not just snoop! Interact!)
7. Cook a pig’s head
8. Change a tyre on the car and learn to adjust the tyre pressure
9. Introduce myself to the neighbours
10. Join an expensive gym/health spa
11. Go to a meditation class
12. Pack the car for holiday entirely by myself
13. Stay in bed for an entire day
14. Have a drastic haircut
15. Go rowing
16. Build something
17. Go to a posh restaurant and eat on my own
18. Watch a horror film
19. Strike up conversation with a stranger in a pub
20. Do a mountain bike race
21. Invite someone to dinner I don’t know very well
22. Tantra workshop
23. Go wild swimming
24. Do an aerobics class
25. Look after chickens
26. Sing karaoke
27. Do belly dancing (or pole dancing)
28. Water-ski
29. Write to 10 people and tell them what I love about them
30. Stand up/open mic ??
31. Sky dive??
32. Do something generous and unexpected for someone else
33. Ride Cow/help birth calf
34. Learn to ride a unicycle
35. Learn some kind of useful plumbing task
36. Put up our roof rack and bicycles without help
37. Take someone old and lonely a meal
38. Have a Brazilian
39. Ski a black run
40. Drink a yard of ale
41. Spend a day dressed as Bananaman
42. Speak in a public place (speakers corner type thing)
43. Learn to Eskimo roll
44. Salsa/tango
45. Volunteer to help at school
46. Apply to be on a TV game show
47. Knit a pair of socks
48. Write a short story
49. Make a Baked Alaska (for guests)
50. Have a conversation in another language
51. Dance all night in a club
52. Abseil
53. Sleep rough
54. Learn a random new language
55. Eat something alive!
56. Try Tai chi
57. Write a letter to The Times
58. Publish a poem on the internet
59. Potter a cup or plate
60. Do a jump on a mountain bike
61. Make some jewellery
62. Paint a picture
63. 24 hours juice-only fast
64. Visit an abattoir
65. Do ALL my filing
66. Get rid of 1/2 of my possessions
67. Give a significant amount of money to charity
68. Drive through a city on my own without sat nav
69. Drive across Europe at night
70. Charge an eye watering fee for some work
71. Get a tattoo
72. Hire a personal shopper
73. Take the children to a roller disco
74. Busk/sing in public
75. Be silent for a day
76. Stay in a haunted house/castle
77. Go caving
78. Drive a bus
79. Shoot something
80. Have a session with a personal trainer
81. Download 5 apps and figure out how to use them
82. Drive to the mountains, and hike on my own
83. Take the kids to the beach for a day trip, just me and them.       Make it fun without spending money
84. Promote myself, shamelessly, far and wide
85. Apply for a job with a 6 figure salary
86. Learn a musical instrument
87. Sell something I have made
88. Go to a networking event and speak to people
89. Get up at 6am every day for a week and use the time productively
90. Go biking in the dark
91. Take video footage of one of my challenges and upload it to you      tube
92. Teach somebody something

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100 – Take a photo of each achievement & publish them in a book!

Some slots are still blank – please do send me your suggestions!