I was just thinking it would be interesting to see folks top 5 
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Find a piece of paper, write “to do list” at the top. Underneath, write “create to do list”, then cross of it as you’ve completed it, now put the list in the recycling, and do some work.
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What needs to be done now?
Nothing.
So it’s time to relax 
Inverse Parkinson’s Law, my learned friend.
Give the task 12 minutes, it’s done in 12 minutes.
It’s just a #ScienceFact 
Or maybe I’m a product of the Dilbert Principle 
Like racing at Outlaw innit.
Needed to be home by 7pm, made sure I’d finished by 5pm to get home in time.
If people didn’t stay in hotels on race day, or book the Monday off work, they’d be quicker.
That’s just a #ScienceFact , too.
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Thought so. Off for a nap.
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I’ve kind of gone away from ‘balance’. I’m 55, by my estimate I have another 25 years treading the boards. Of those, the last 10 will be shit and tying my own shoelaces will be a win. The 10 before that will see a sharp decline in just about everything physical and mental.
So the next 5 are really the only good ones left. So, yeah complete excess, fill my boots with life, do everything I can etc. I’m fortunate in that I can financially and life circumstances wise, and am already only working part time.
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I know people with potentially life shortening illnesses are generally told not to have lists, or at least big ones as it’ll probably cause anxiety that they are unlikely to complete most.
Keep them short and achievable.
I like the 5+35 idea, some I’ll be chipping away at for a while, others I might get done in 12 months or have now ticked them off. Eg, being alive at 9pm on a Thursday, although that one is recurring 
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True that, I guess I have staying alive as a sort of overarching meta-goal, but it certainly makes it to the very top of the to-do list between 7.30pm and 8.30pm on a Thursday 
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- Get laid
…erm?
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No chance mate (neither have I). Whats no 2?
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Still thinking.
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FTFY
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Not exactly the same but some things on this thread.
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Oddly enough just after reading your post something popped up on the browser splash screen on my works PC about bucket list goals for over 55’s. Apparently these are the top 40.
Not my choices and a lot don’t really appeal like tattoo’s, parachuting etc. but each to their own.
Obviously several of us on here will have done things like London marathon 
I’m never likely to have the talent or ability for anything arty or musical so they’re straight out of the window! And for #30 I’m sure Helvellyn tri will do 
- Visit Australia
- Visit all eight new Wonders of the World
- Fly in First or Business Class
- Swim with dolphins
- Drive along Route 66 in America
- Write a novel
- Go travelling
- Live in another country
- Reunite with a lost best friend
- See a shooting star
- Do a skydive
- Meet a Royal
- Go to space
- Rent a wildly expensive car for an afternoon
- Cycle through Europe
- Walk on the red carpet
- Cage diving with sharks
- Dive to a shipwreck
- Explore an abandoned building
- Sleep in the jungle
- Climb a mountain
- Try surfing
- Stay in VIP camping at Glastonbury
- Go paragliding
- Chase a tornado
- Walk on the wing of a plane
- Get a tattoo
- Go skinny-dipping
- Release an album
- Swim in ice-cold water
- Run the London Marathon
- Cycle to Paris
- Go on stage at a music festival
- Ride a motorbike
- Be on a reality TV show
- Run a 10k
- Join a band
- Do a one-armed press-up
- Swim the English Channel
- Hold a venomous snake
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21/40 for me
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Hmm, I’m not sure #1 counts for you I’m pretty sure you must have been chased off snakes before!
Edit: hmm about 10 for me 
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Technically flying in Concorde might have got you 2?
5 for me
Seems my life is as exciting as my house/work mapping.
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What an absolutely shite list, most of them are trivial, you don’t exactly want them very much, sure going into space or doing a 1 arm press-up ain’t easy - but if you can’t be bothered to visit the local tattooist, take your clothes off and go for a swim, chuck 20 quid to the guy who rents our the surf boards or motorbikes, dress up as a school kid and hang out in pizza express then are they really f’ing goals you actually seriously have?
Of course, I’m blaming the wrong people, it’s the lack of vision in the twenty-something survey designer who put up the suggestions to write “yeah, these are the sort of thing old people might want to do” They should put RANT on the list too for a bit of realism.
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13.5 I’d say
The IM red carpet, right?
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