Visit The Pyramids
Go to The Superbowl
Kiss Zooey Deschanel on the cheek
Own an Aston Martin DB5
Visit: Baldwins Book Barn (West Chester, Pennsylvania), Shakespeare & Company (Paris, France), Goulds Book (Sydney), West Side Books (Denver), Brazenhead Books (NYC), The Writers Workshoppe (Seattle)
Free Orbit in Space
Interview Alan Sugar, Richard Branson & Malcolm Gladwell
Have a drink with Stephen Chbosky
Work with Apple
Do a solo Everest Skydive
Publish a work of fiction
Appear on the New York Best Sellers List
See the Northern Lights
Build A House In South America
Speak a foreign language fluently
Run a marathon
Climb one of the summits
Drive the great ocean road
Raise $1,000,000 for charity/good cause
Be a good dad
Take the love of my life to Venice (before it sinks)
Visit at least 5 countries in Africa
Play a round of golf at St Andrews
Learn to play the guitar
Busk in the London Underground
Visit the Lost City
Go on a spiritual weekend of meditating
Get arrested for having too much fun
Buy a drink for Ben Gibbard, Chris Martin & Jon Bon Jovi
Speak at SXSW
Have a night of drinking in New Orleans
Party at the Rio Carnival
Step foot on Antatrica
Visit each country in Scandinavia (plus Iceland)
Go to at least 5 Asian Countries
Fly First Class with Virgin
Go to the airport and take the next flight available
Paddle down the Amazon
Visit the Grand Canyon
Drive down route 66
Spend an entire weekend with my nieces and spoil them to death
Open up a Book/Coffee Shop
Make love on a secluded beach
Spend $5,000 in Las Vegas (in one weekend)
Split, and finish, a bottle of single malt whiskey with my first born son
Die on my own terms
Go for a run in Central Park
Swim with Sharks
Write a short story as I watch the sunset in Hawaii
Fly a plane
Do a talk in front of more than 1,000 people
To read the Little Prince to each one of my children on the day they are born
Go skiing
To go an entire weekend without saying a word
Read more than 2,000 books
Listen to every Beetles album on vinyl
Own a suit from Saville Road
To never stop dreaming
Create a marketing related book that’s remembered
Find my true voice, both in Fiction and the more natural, Non-Fiction/Online world
Stay up all night during a Full Moon Party
To go an entire three days without sleep
Experience a natural hallucination
Write a 1st Draft of a novel in one month
Watch the sunrise at Uluru
Buy a random stranger dinner without them knowing
Watch Tottenham in a major final (live)
See a Cincinnati Bengal game
Invest in a Startup I believe in
Live in poverty for a month and truly give back to a community
Do a TED Talk
Do Missionary Work in a developing country
Volunteer in the town/city where I bring up my children
Watch sunrise at the Grand Canyon
Write a book with nothing but a notebook and typewriter
Help more than 1,000 people through the Turndog Foundation
Own an entire wardrobe of handmade clothes/shoes
Take Kid Turndog to Disney Land
Found or Co-Found a Social Enterprise/Charity that genuinely helps a community
Pick Coffee Beans and make my own cup of uber fresh coffee
Experience New Year’s Eve in Edinburgh
Go to World Domination Summit, SXSW, & Misfit Con in the same calendar year
Successfully Crowd Fund a campaign
Go vegetarian for a year
Become a qualified yoga instructor
Watch Kid Turndog in a school play (and be overly enthusiastic)
Discover Financial Freedom
Skinny-Dip in Sweden – in winter
Write For Time Magazine
Drop Kid Turndog off at YMCA Camp Ernst
Not work for an entire week, and not feel guilty about it
Teach The Kid how to ride a bike
Read 250 Books in a single calendar year
Never become a politician
Visit all the places I wrote about in Tick to the Tock (and take a picture holding the book)
Learn how to make a great whiskey cocktail
Learn how to make a wonderful cup of coffee
Spend Oktoberfest in Munich