The Not Bucket List Journey

The Not Bucket list Journey – What is a ‘Not Bucket List’? and why am I doing it?

Bucket lists are known as a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. Sounds a bit morbid right? So instead let’s look at it as a list of things to achieve in life. Goals that I would like to experience accomplishing no matter how tough along with making memories along the way.

For quite some time now because of my physical and mental health, my memory has been lets say a bit of a sieve. I often find it hard to recall achievements and memories I have made. It got me thinking how find a way of remembering my experiences? I mean I’ve been making videos on YouTube since 2009, so I thought why not save them online in time on YouTube and other social media platforms as well as physical reminders?

The aim of the ‘Not Bucket List Journey’ is to document my experiences and memories as I work on improving my physical, emotional and mental health. By making and uploading videos of the journey, it allows me to look back and reflect on what I have achieved and how far I have come.

The Not Bucket List started on January 1st 2021. With the first time capsule being opened and a note from day 1 being placed inside. Each goal I achieve I add keepsakes inside and notes to my future self when the times feel right. I want to look back when I’m ready in the future at my journey and see what experiences and memories I have created.

Below is my ‘Not Bucket List’ and along the way I will be crossing through goals I have achieved as well as adding more from any inspirations as time goes by. Who knows where we may end up with this journey?

If you also feel there is a goal you think should be on my list, feel free to reach out via the contact form here and I will look to add these to the list.

(Please note I am only human after all and do have some fears like many others. As well as being disabled. This may lead to some goals being adapted, or removed if I am unable to achieve it due to health and safety)

What is on the Not Bucket List?

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• 24 Hour stream
• £20 camera vs high end short story
• 4×4 Off-roading
• 4 Friends with cameras memory challenge
• 5 Star Hotel experience
• 5 Star Restaurant experience
• 7 Days of 24 hours in different countries
• 1 Hour Photoshop challenge

A

• Abseil down a building
• Abseil down a waterfall
• Acrobatic plane experience
• Act in a play
• Adopt a dog/cat
• Afternoon teas
• Afternoon fish and chips teas platter
• Alpine Coaster Italy
• American Ice Hockey match
• Ancestry tree
• Assault course
• Attempt a Guinness world record
• Attend a black tie gala
• Attend a basketball game
• Attend a film premiere
• Attend an F1 weekend
• Attend a foam party
• Attend a ice hockey game
• Attend a game at the Olympics
• Attend a football world cup game
• Attend and release a lantern at a Festival
• Attend Pride Festival
• Attend Eurovision
• Attend Ren Faire
• Axe throwing

B

• Backpack through Europe
• Bake a loaf of bread
• Baseball driving range
• Bathe an elephant
• Battersea power station lift experience
• Be asked for my autograph
• Be a part of a food fight
• Be a film extra
• Be a game show contestant
• Be gifted a tarot card set
• Be a member of audience in a tv show
• Be a member of an exclusive club
• Be a tourist in my own town
• Be interviewed on the Not Bucket List Journey
• Be on the cover of a magazine
• Be on a radio show
• Be sponsored
• B-Roll challenge
• Blow glass
• Bobsleigh experience
• Brighton i360 ride
• Bubble world Experience
• Build a big Lego model
• Build a dolls house
• Build a full stream desk
• Build a high spec gaming PC
• Build a long domino’s track
• Build and paint a hand fan
• Build a minature model
• Buy a full camera setup fresh from store
• Build a foil ball
• Build a slide out of cardboard
• Buy a GoPro
• Buy an expensive pair of trainers

C

• Camp out in the middle of nowhere
• Camp Wildfire holiday
• Carve a piece of wood into a design
• Carve home number into stone
• Chairlift experience in Capri, Italy
• Candle decorating
• Cat cafe experience
• Carve a wooden bowl
• Carve a piece of marble
• Cave repelling experience
• Change the day on a cruise ship elevator
• Charter a Yacht
• Charity store DIY challenge
• Chase a tornado
• Climb up to Machu Pichuu
• Climb the London O2
• Climb a volcano
• Climb to the top of a lighthouse
• Climb to the top of a tree
• Climb through a tree wrapping machine
• Climb the Kelpies in Falkland
• Coal walk
• Colour in a blanket
• Complete a 3D jigsaw puzzle
• Complete a cross stitch piece
• Complete a paint by numbers
• Complete a half marathon
• Complete a large puzzle
• Complete a game for first time
• Conquer a fear
• Cooking stream
• Cosplay stream / event
• Couples photoshoot
• Craft fair stall
• Create a NBLJ storage box
• Create an abstract watercolour art piece
• Create an art piece at Splatlab Bournemouth
• Create a bumper sticker
• Create a clothing line
• Create a colouring book
• Create my own cocktail
• Create a documentary
• Create a hyper lapse
• Create an IMDB account
• Create an NBLJ storage box
• Create a streaming space
• Creative poem video
• Crowd surf
• Cruise Antarctica
• Cruise the Danube
• Crystal maze experience
• Custom Not Bucket List Puzzle
• Custom gaming chair
• Custom made leather jacket
• Customize air pods

D

• Dance cover video
• Dance on a bar
• Decorate a gingerbread house
• Decorate a t-shirt
• Design a mini game
• Design a pair of shoes
• Design and make an Not Bucket List coin
• Design and make badges
• Design and make magnets
• Design a wooden toy
• Design and create a squishy
• Destroy stuff in a rage room
• Diet coke can from Coca Cola
• Dive off a high board
• Dig a crystal from a quarry
• DIY Live terrarium
• DIY Pomelo Peel Jar
• DIY Photo transfer to wood or clay
• DIY infinite origanmi star
• DIY miniature recycle box art
• Donate toys for kids in need
• Do a color run
• Do a silly gift exchange with friends
• Dog sled experience
• Dog art painting
• Dress up as oldies and go bowling
• Drink from a coconut
• Drink in an ice bar
• Drinking crazy golf with challenges
• Drive in cinema
• Drive route 66
• Driving lessons
• Drive through a sandstorm
• Drop limited edition merchandise
• Drunk gaming stream with friends (Removed)
• Dune buggy experience
• Dye hair a bright colour

E

• Eat breakfast in bed
• Ear wax candle experience
• Eat a Chinese meal out of a box
• Eat fire
• Eat street food on a stick
• Eat sushi
• Enjoy an All Inclusive Holiday
• Enter art into an exhibit
• Experience an earthquake
• Experience dog sledding
• Experience a ride on lifeboat
• Experience the Polar Express train
• Experience The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
• Experience Van life for a week
• Explore Cappadocia
• Explore the ruins at Pompeii
• Explore the UK National Parks
• Epoxy resin and wood coasters

F

• Fancy dress / Cosplay
• Feed a koala
• Feed a monkey
• Feed a fox
• Fforest experiences
• Film and release a short film
• Film a short skit
• Fill a vending machine with small goals in capsules
• Find a four leaf clover
• Find a career I love
• Find treasure with a metal detector
• Fingerprint art painting
• Finish a 10k run
• Flip on a trampoline
• Float on a mattress on water
• Float in the dead sea
• Float in the pink lakes
• Fly a drone
• Fly a kite
• Fly a plane
• Fly first class
• Fly in a private jet
• Forage clay to make sculptures
• Fox tattoo on hip
• Full body massage
• Full driving license

G

• Galena mine experience
• Gamble at Las Vegas
• Get a caricature drawing by a street artist
• Get paid to travel for a video
• Get the perfect smile
• Get VIP tickets to a show
• Give free hugs
• Give book binding a try
• Glass Painting
• Glow stick pool party
• Glow stick body dance
• Go in the mud river caves
• Go on a fossil hunting expedition
• Go on a double date night
• Go on a shopping spree
• Gold panning at home
• Go gold panning outside
• Go karting inside & outside
• Go skinny dipping
• Go thrift shopping
• Go to a book signing
• Go to a convention as a creator
• Go to a dinner theater
• Go to an indie car race
• Go to the movies by myself
• Go to a paint party
• Go to a roller derby
• Go volcano boarding
• Go to a west end show in the VIP Box Suit
• Go to space (On an SD Card)
• Go wake boarding
• G2 Adventure Hub Scotland

H

• Hand craft paper
• Hand make some sweets
• Hand make a Not Bucket List rug
• Hand make rune stones
• Hand paint jars
• Hand make a charcuterie board
• Hand make a spearhead
• Handwrite a letter to someone special
• Hang gliding experience
• Handmake a baseball
• Haunted tour experience
• Have a book character named after me
• Have a bonfire and make smores
• Have a fox plush made
• Have a feature film shown in a film festival
• Have a photography and design portfolio
• Have a photo of my Iris taking
• Have a short film in a film festival
• Have a sponsored video
• Have a stranger buy me a drink
• Have an indoor picnic
• Have an office outside of home
• Have my palm read
• Have a tarrot card reading
• Helicopter photo shoot
• Helicopter photo shoot in snow
• Helium infused drinks
• Hidden vintage cinema experience
• Hike sunrise to sunset
• Hit a golf ball off a warship
• Hit 500 Subscribers on YouTube
• Hit 1000 Subscribers on YouTube
• Hit 500 Followers on Twitch
• Hit 1000 Followers on Twitch
• Hit 500 Followers on TikTok
• Hit 1000 Followers on TikTok
• Hit 10,000 Followers on TikTok
• Hit the archery bullseye
• Hold a monkey
• Hold a shark
• Home made pizza
• Home made marshmallows
• Honk a cruise ships horn
• Hoonah Alaska Zip line
• Horse Riding
• Horse riding on a beach
• Host an event
• Host a radio show
• Hot air balloon experience
• Hot glue gun art
• Hovercraft experience
• Hug a redwood tree
• Human claw machine experience
• Hydro-boarding experience

I

• Ice skate on an ice field
• Ice Skating in Wheelchair
• Island hop around Greece
• Indoor surfing
• Indoor skiing
• Invent something
• Iris photoshoot

J

• Join a book club
• Join a flash mob
• Jump into a huge pile of leafs
• Jump into a pool fully clothed
• Jump off a boat into the sea
• Jump off a cliff
• Jump on a hotel bed
• James bond experience day

K

• Karaoke bar
• Keepsakes of the Not Bucket List Journey – Hide until time capsule opening
• Kiss in the rain
• Kiss under mistletoe
• Kite surfing experience

L

• Learn a language
• Learn sign language
• Learn the Japanese art of wrapping Bojagi
• Learn a line dance
• Learn thank you in multiple languages
• Learn to curl
• Learn to hulu
• Learn to ice skate backwards
• Learn to play the kalimba thumb piano
• Learn to weave bamboo
• Learn to juggle
• Learn to play the Irish whistle
• Learn Kumihimo
• Learn to macrame
• Learn to make leather cord bracelets
• Learn to fence
• Learn to surf
• Learn to skim rocks
• Learn to spin a basketball on my fingers
• Learn to play the ocarina
• Learn to play steel tongue drum
• Leave my mark in graffiti
• London Palladium show experience
• London photo shoot

M

• Macrame bracelet making experience
• Magnet fishing
• Make an art piece using risograph
• Make a calender
• Make a candle
• Make a channel trailer
• Make a childhood food
• Make a Christmas Eve box
• Make a cowboy hat
• Make croissants / pan au chocolat
• Make clay ghosts
• Make cross stitch pottery
• Make a DIY miniature book nook
• Make a documentary on my ‘Not Bucket List’
• Make a dreamcatcher
• Make a book page wreath
• Make fresh pasta
• Make flavoured popcorn
• Make a flower out of copper
• Make a font out of my handwriting
• Make glowing frame decor art
• Make a gingerbread house from scratch
• Make a graphic novel
• Make a handmade gift
• Make ice cream
• Make a leather wallet
• Make a kinusaiga piece
• Make a model scene out of cement
• Make a mosaic art piece
• Make a metal bonsai tree
• Make a paper mache art piece
• Make a mystery Not Bucket List Journey goal capsule machine
• Make a neon sign
• Make an oil pastel art piece
• Make a rattan basket
• Make a clock
• Make a Claddagh ring at Celtic Coastal Creations
• Make my own glass lamp
• Make an NBLJ Journal
• Make an origami animal
• Make a piece of jewellery
• Make a piece of art with sea pottery
• Make a resin turned item
• Make a eco terrarium
• Make a scrapbook
• Make a snowman
• Make a scene using diorama
• Make a special cake
• Make a sculptured art piece
• Make tin can lanterns
• Make a wax flower tree
• Make your own trinket tray
• Make a will
• Make a wish star jar
• Make a 3D art frame
• Make friends with other travelers
• Meet a blog reader in person
• Meet Lucy Darling (Carisa Hendrix)
• Make someone smile for the right reason at the right time
• Make and sell a piece of art
• Make a mini Not Bucket List movie trailer
• Make wooden photo frames
• Murder mystery on the northern belle
• Murder mystery dinner

N

• Name a star
• New years day ice bucket
• Needle punching art
• New Forest keeper experience

O

• Open up an oyster
• Order room service
• Own a 20p capsule vending machine
• Own a bookshelf full of books
• Own a Jellycat Fox and Pencil
• Own a piece of Lava Rock
• Own a Mini Cooper
• Own a Land Rover
• Own a piece of lava

P

• Paddle board among icebergs
• Paint Pouring Bear
• Paint a minature model
• Paint ceramic tiles
• Pancake art
• Paragliding experience
• Parasailing experience
• Participate in a pantomine
• Partner with a company
• Pet a fox
• Photograph glaciers
• Photograph of myself in the paper
• Photograph the Sahara desert
• Photo under a cherry blossom tree in Japan
• Picnic date
• Pillow fight
• Pillow fort movie day
• Plan a date night with partner
• Plant a tree
• Play an early access game
• Play human battleship
• Play golf
• Play a game of paintball
• Play a game of croquette
• Play a game of human battlefield
• Play a pinball machine
• Play a song on ukulele
• Play a game on Twitter with a brand company
• Play bingo at a bingo hall
• Play Dungeons and Dragons for first time
• Polar Plunge
• Professional make over
• Professional head shots
• Police ride along
• Pottery making class
• Pottery painting
• Publish a book
• Purchase lost luggage
• Purchase an Nintendo switch
• Photograph a special shot in mountains/cliff
• Puck from an Anaheim Ducks game
• Pyjama day outside

Q

• Quad biking experience
• Quarry crystal mining

R

• Raise £1000 for charity
• Read a book before a movie
• Read at least two books a year
• Receive a letter from a viewer
• Reconnect with a childhood friend
• Record a song
• Record footage for a music video
• Recreate a childhood photo
• Red Bull soap box race
• Red Bull Soapbox Race Test Pilot
• Red Bull 400 Experience
• Refurbish some furniture
• Relax in a natural hot spring
• Release baby turtles into the sea
• Research first name meaning
• Research last name origins
• RIAT weekend experience
• Ride an Air boat
• Ride an ATV
• Ride a bike on a beach
• Ride a BMX down a storm drain
• Ride a dog sleigh
• Ride in a horse and carriage
• Ride a sleeper train
• Ride a long chair lift
• Ride the Needles chair lift, Isle of Wight
• Ride on a monorail
• Ride a double floored train
• Ride in a Tuk Tuk
• Ride a mechanical bull (Removed Medical)
• Ride a monster truck
• Ride the Orient Express
• Ride on a snowmobile
• Ride a luge
• Ride on a sleeper train
• Road trip
• Roast dinner gravy fountain
• Rock climbing experience
• Rope swing into a lake/the sea
• Run through sprinklers

S

• Safari Experience
• Scuba dive in the worlds largest fish tank
• Sculpt a piece of clay into a creature
• Sculpt in a jar
• Sculpt with sand
• Screen printing experience
• See a Cirque Du Soleil
• See a Guinness Book of Records attempt
• See a TED talk live
• Speak on TedX
• See the Taj Mahal
• See the sunrise and sunset in one day
• See icebergs
• See the Pyramids
• Segway ride
• Selfie at the shard
• Selfie at the Eiffel tower
• Sell a printed photograph
• Sensory deprivation tank
• Sew christmas napkins
• Shoot a promotional video
• Shoot a confetti cannon
• Shower on a plane
• Sit in a cockpit of a plane
• Sky diving tunnel experience
• Sky dive
• Sleep in an igloo
• Sleep in an underwater hotel
• Sleep in an over water bungalow
• Sleep in a capsule hotel
• Sleep in a stable on a haystack
• Sleep in a tree house
• Slide down a fireman’s pole.
• Smoke a cigar
• Snorkeling experience
• Snorkel the underwater museum
• Snowboarding
• Soak in the blue lagoon
• Speak on Ted X
• Spend a day in the Rocky Mountains
• Spend Christmas in another country
• Sponsor someones Make a Wish
• Sponsorship with a camera company
• Spontaneous holiday in the UK
• Spontaneous holiday outside the UK
• Stargazing
• Start a fire without matches
• Stand in a cruise ship control room
• Stand on an airport runway
• Stand under a plane taking off/landing
• Stand on the equator
• Stand on the London Palladium stage
• Start off a flash mob
• Stay at a retreat for a week
• Stunt rides
• Surprise someone
• Swim at Bondi beach
• Swim between Boscombe and Bournemouth pier
• Swim between techtonic plates
• Swim in an aquarium
• Swim under a waterfall
• Swim with dolphins
• Swim with sea turtles
• Swim with sharks
• Swim with stingrays

T

• Take a mud bath
• Take an art class
• Try a cupping therapy session
• Try decoupage
• Take a photo everyday for a whole year
• Take a painting class
• Take “The Shot” on a cliff
• Take a trip with a stranger
• Take my parents on holiday
• Take underwater pictures
• Thames evening speed boat experience
• Throw a dart at a map and go where it lands
• Time capsule
• Time travel New Years Day
• Tour the UK on a motorbike
• Tour a factory
• Tour a farm
• Try a stage ariel lift
• Try button art
• Try Kintsugi Japanese art pottery repair
• Try Sashiko repair
• Try shell painting
• Try turning bottles into glasses
• Try laser printing
• Try weapon yoga
• Try finger looping
• Try animal yoga
• Track day experience
• Travel on a sea plane
• Travel from the bottom to the top of the UK via train
• Travel on the Rocky Mountaineer
• Travel on the Waverley Cruise
• Travel to Australia
• Travel to Canada
• Travel to Lapland
• Travel to United States
• Travel with another YouTuber/Twitcher
• Try blind contour drawing
• Try dragon ice ice-cream
• Try deep fried Mars Bar
• Try freeze dried sweets
• Try international foods/sweets/drinks
• Try shrink plastic art
• Try squeegee art
• Try Dorodango (mud sphere)
• Try lino painting
• Try pyrography
• Try a Japanese head spa
• Try trashbagging (Sliding down a hill in a bin bag)
• Try tablet weaving
• Try shaved ice
• Try White Rafting
• Tumble rocks and wood
• Tuft rug session
• Turn on the Christmas lights for a town
• Tye dye with water pistols
• Tye dye tea towels and napkins
• Tumble rocks
• Twitch con experience
• Two week+ cruise

U

• Underwater photo shoot
• Underwater sub experience
• Upcycle three charity shop items
• Use a paddle to bid at an auction
• Use a remote controlled boat

V

• Verified on Twitch
• Verified on YouTube
• Vidcon experience
• Video of just tongue twisters
• Visit a ghost town
• Visit Amethyst Cave in Scotland
• Visit Dorsets lost village
• Visit the Trevi Fountain
• Visit a temple
• Visit 5 Castles
• Visit the Great Barrier Reef
• Visit a real country club
• Visit a wildlife national park in South Africa
• Visit Brazil
• Visit Crystal Grotto, Surrey UK
• Visit Disneyland Florida
• Visit Disneyland Paris
• Visit Dubai
• Visit famous heads on Easter Island
• Visit Japan
• Visit Lofoten Islands
• Visit the Matterhorn in Switzerland
• Visit the Mach Loop
• Visit New York
• Visit Northern Lights
• Visit pearl harbor
• Visit the Colosseum
• Visit Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight
• Visit the Grand Canyon
• Visit rainbow mountains of Peru
• Voice act in a project

W

• Wales forest coaster ride
• Walk along The Great Wall of China
• Walk the barefoot path in Limburg
• Watch a Broadway show in New York
• Watch firework display from boat
• Watch a space shuttle lunch in person
• Watch London eye & Big Ben New year celebrations in person
• Watch an England women’s game
• Watch a meteor shower
• Watch a baseball game
• Watch a solar eclipse
• Watch a firework display from a boat
• Walk along a suspension bridge
• Walk on a red carpet
• Walk on the black sand beach in Iceland
• Walk on a glacier
• Walk the Jurassic coast
• Watercolour embroidery
• Watercolour painting
• Watch the Eiffel tower light up at night
• Watch an England football match live
• Watch a solar eclipse
• Watch Maceys Parade
• Watch the change of guard at London Palace
• Watch the Savanna Banana’s
• Watch the Scalloway fire festival
• Watch sunrise in the New Forest
• Watch sunset in the hills / mountains
• Weaving experience
• Whack a pinata
• Whale watching
• White water rafting
• Win a stuffed animal at a carnival
• Win my first film award
• Wood whittling model making
• Wood carve a square fluid wall piece
• Work in a soup kitchen
• Wrap a snake around my neck
• Write a letter to my future self
• Write a thank you letter to a company
• Write my name on wet cement

X

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Y

• Yell in the mountains
• Yodel watching

Z

• ZeroG space flight
• Zip wire from Bournemouth Pier
• Zip wire at Zip world
• Zip wire at Hangloose Adventure
• Zip wire at Las Vegas
• Zip wire at Eden Project
• Zip wire the longest zip wire in the world
• Zip wire swing experience
• Zorbing experience