In his last lecture on Time Management, Randy Pausch says this:

“If you refuse to allow yourself to dream it, i know you won’t do it. Dreams are valuable as they allow us to take the first step towards an accomplishment. I think it’s very dangerous to focus on doing things right. I think it’s much more important to do the right things. If you do the right things adequately, that’s much more important than doing the wrong things beautifully. Doesn’t matter how well you polish the underside of the banister. Keep that in mind. Lou Holtz had a great list: ‘Lou Holtz’s 100 things to do in his life’. He would once a week look at it and say: If I’m not working on those 100 things, why was I working on the others? I think that’s an incredible way to frame things.”

There is a similar concept in the film “The Bucket List” where 2 terminally-ill men write down all the things they want to do in the last 6 months of their lives. Like i always say to my family - i don’t want to live forever (or even for a long time), i just want to live well.

And so, i did my own. This is who i am. This is what i want to do, in no particular order of priority. And it’s also the life i want to live so consider that when entering into a friendship or relationship with me. If you want to settle down in a nice middle class 4-bedroom house in an English town with a 9-5 yuppie so you get to be a housewife, i’m really not for you.

And if you’re wondering why “Be happy” isn’t on this list, it’s because it’s far too vague and doing these things is what makes me happy.

1. Drive a jeep through the Mexican desert with a gun drinking Jack Daniels
2. Fly a Cessna over the African savannah
3. Complete a quest to the North Pole
4. Climb a Himalayan mountain
5. Cuddle both a baby and full grown male lion
6. Swim with dolphins in the sea
7. Get married in a castle with roses ansd fireworks
8. Be a father
9. Do a road trip across the US (New York to LA)
10. Complete “The Impossible Journey”
11. Fly in a fighter jet
12. Take a tour of Israel & the Holy Land
13. Sample a massively potent cocaine analogue
14. Write and make a Hollywood movie
15. Have a book published
16. Drink vodka in Moscow
17. Buy my mum a retirement cottage
18. Have a no1 single/album
19. Create a technology that makes video games an educational system
20. Set up a school
21. Honeymoon in the Seychelles
22. Survive a warzone
23. Own a Lamborghini
24. Take a trip through a South American jungle
25. Sail around the Caribbean
26. Dance in Rio
27. Give away a million dollars
28. Ride on the back of an elephant
29. Cook a meal for a Jew and an Arab
30. Visit Auschwitz
31. Be on the front page of a national newspaper
32. Cross an ocean
33. Be a talk show guest
34. Produce a TV drama
35. Sleep in for 3 days with the girl i love
36. Parachute jump through a cloud
37. Make a TV program
38. Read plays and philosophy on a trip through Greece and Turkey
39. Explore the Mayan ruins
40. Give a rousing speech as a politician
41. Own a big house in the country
42. Play a sold-out gig
43. Make love to the most beautiful woman in the world
44. Save somebody’s life
45. Forgive a murderer
46. Visit Mecca and the Taj Mahal
47. See the Northern Lights from the Ice Hotel
48. Be a director of a multi-billion dollar company
49. Stand on the edge of a volcano
50. Give up an addiction
51. Be involved in a riot
52. Give away my daughter(s) in marriage
53. Spend a romantic month on a desert island
54. Tell a tribe a story
55. Run a marathon and have a 6-pack
56. Be re-baptised
57. Feel so happy that i cry
58. Have a cool study filled with technology and TV monitors
59. Give away everything i own
60. Prove a doctor wrong
61. Write a book about my life
62. Seduce a stripper
63. Bring up kids with character and good self-image
64. Break a world record
65. Have the ultimate guitar rig
66. Run a next-generation charity
67. Travel on the Orient Express
68. Swim underwater at night in the Great Barrier Reef
69. Ride a horse through a Romanian forest
70. Shave off all my body hair for no reason
71. Launch a rocket
72. Blow up a building
73. Eat a 5-course meal with royalty
74. Fight in a war
75. Have an office with Astroturf and a bar
76. Open an opera dressed in a tuxedo
77. Spend a week homeless on the street
78. Buy my son(s) a first suit
79. See an angel
80. Bring down someone corrupt
81. Barter in a North African market
82. Fall in love in the moonlight
83. Have a huge xmas dinner with my large family
84. Jump off a tall bridge
85. Make a speech in Parliament as an MP
86. Punch an angry drunk
87. Stay in a haunted house
88. Fight an injustice in the courts and the press
89. Give a sermon in a church
90. Make a DVD set that answers every question about Christianity
91. Retire to a lion ranch in Africa
92. Have supernaturally amazing sex
93. Renovate an old castle into a romantic hotel
94. Have a house with themed rooms
95. Give my kids a swimming pool, bar, pool table and their own side house to live
96. See the world from space
97. Modify my DNA
98. Drink a religious leader under the table
99. Touch the bottom of the sea
100. Scream out loud in the middle of the desert