Things I would love to do before I die

"If the vision is there, the means will follow."   Faith Popcorn

Longer term

• Read the BBC 100 top reads.
• Capture wonder and beauty through photographs.
• Photograph a tiger in the wild.
• Make a real difference to someone's life.
• See 100 mammals in the wild.
• Start a successful and popular web site.
• Practice Chi Gong daily for a year.
• Visit many nature reserves and do many hikes.
• Perform random acts of kindness.
• Watch all David Attenborough's documentaries.
• Meditate in beautiful, spiritual places.
• Earn a significant portion of my income doing what I love doing (relating to photography, training and coaching, blogging and / or movies).
• Identify someone who has inspired me most. Let him / her know.
• Always be the first to say hello.
• Create 6 powerful, new habits in one year .
• Achieve financial abundance with one of my passions.
• Help people learn powerful, new skills in an inspiring and easy way.
• Write a letter to at least 5 family and friends telling them how much they mean to me.
• Learn to cook 6 excellent dishes.
• Exercise 5 times a week for 12 months.
• Go on an artificial sugar diet for 3 months.
• Inspire other people to take up photography.
• Gain enlightenment.
• Achieve inner tranquility and outer effectiveness.
• Conquer a big fear.
• Write a book
• Be still for 3 days

Travel related

• Do a 6 month Australian road trip
• Papua New Guinea
• Sri Lanka
• Madagascar
• Indonesia
• Vietnam
• Columbia
• Central America
• India (again)
• Central America
• Colombia
• See a tiger, polar bear, blue whale
• Visit Manepools in Zimbabwe
• See the Great Wall of China
• Canoo down the Zambezi river
• Visit Nevada and Utah
• Be a hippie in Southern India for a month
• Birds to see: King or Emperor penguin, Lovely Fairy Wren, snowy owl
• Swim with a Whale Shark
• See a tiger, polar bear, blue whale
• Explore Cape York (Australia)
• Explore Australia  (Kimberleys, Cape York, Mungo National Park)
• Live in South America or Asia for a year teaching English
• Go hiking in New Zealand
• Fly in a hot air balloon over a beautiful landscape

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Completed

• Get good photos of Puffin (2024)
• Explore and photograph Iceland (2024)
• Visit over 50 countries (2024)
• Hike to Everest Base Camp (2023)
• Experience blissful peace through meditation. (2023 and ongoing)
• Explore Antarctica and South Georgia   (2023)
• See King Penguins in the wild  (2023)
• Get good photos of a Malachite kingfisher (2022)
• See a blue whale  (2022)
• Explore the Arctic (2022)
• Explore Cambodia  (2017)
• Inspire others to blog (Russell, Jo, Nicola, Sue, Eva)

• See a Regent Bowerbird (2013)

• Watch a show in the Sydney Opera House  (2012)

• Go on an African safari with a camera  (2012)

• Photograph a leopard  (2012)

• Learn massage  (2011)

• Explore the Great Ocean Road (2011)

• See a Koala in the wild (2011)

• Comprehensively photograph Sydney (2011)

• Try teaching  (2011)

• Photograph Cape Town (2010)

• Tour New Zealand (2008)

• See an Echidna in the wild (2008)

• Visit Uluru (2008)

• Visit Kakadu National Park (2008)

• Identify 1000 birds in the wild (2007)

• See a sea eagle (2007)

• Explore the Great Barrier Reef (2007)

• See a duck-billed Platypus in the wild (2007)

• Emigrate to Australia (2006)

• Do a photography course (2006)

• Buy a good camera (2006)

• Travel through South America (2006)

• See an albatross (2006)

• Explore the jungles of the Amazon Basin (2006)

• Explore The Galapagos Islands (2006)

• Climb a live volcano (2006)

• Hike on a glacier (2006)

• Try sand boarding (2006)

• Do the Inca Trail (2006)

• See a condor (2006)

• See a hummingbird (2006)

• See the top 250 IMDB movies of all time (2005)

• See a North American bear (2005)

• Hike in the Canadian Rockies (2005)

• Complete a triathlon (2005)

• See Mama Mia in London (2005)

• Visit Prague (2004)

• Listen to the choir at a King's College service (2004)

• Create my own web site (2004)

• See a Kookaboro (2004)

• Meditate every day for a year (2004)

• Keep an online journal for at least 12 months (2004)

• Visit Croatia (2004)

• No sugar for a month (2004)

• Rollerblade from Hyde Park to Picadilly (2004)

• Learn to dive (2004)

• Be a travelling business guy with high tech gadgets (2003)

• See a toucan (2003)

• Visit Iguassu Falls (Brazil) (2003)

• Goto "Proms in the Park" (2003)

• Reach a toned 90 kg's (2003)

• Be a zany tour leader (2002)

• Try paragliding (2002)

• See a bearded vulture (2002)

• See The Big 5 in a wildlife park (2001)

• Visit The Serengeti  (2001)

• Go whitewater rafting down The Zambezi  (2001)

• Hike the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal ( 2001)

• Swim with wild dolphins (1999)

• See Tutankamin's treasures (1997)

• See the Pyramids (1997)

• See Petra (1997)

• See The Taj Mahal (1997)

• Float down The Nile (1997)

• Visit the ruins of Pompeii (1996)

• See a Pel's Fishing Owl (1991)