My Impossible List

Many of us have a bucket list. Whether it be written down or simply in your mind, we all have goals that we would like to achieve. The issue with a bucket list however is that it doesn’t motivate you to take action.

First formulated by Joel Runyon, and made aware to me by Thomas Frank, an Impossible List is an ever-evolving list of experiences that build up over time, help others as well as yourself, and implore you to take action. This is mine, which is, of course, ever evolving.

Current Focuses:

Right now, my main focuses are to perform at a high-level at work, keep this website up-to-date, write new blog posts, and explore the feasibility of outside ventures, supporting my colleagues at Living North wherever possible.

The rest of my current priorities are declared at this page: What I’m Doing Now

Last 5 Completed Goals

  • Achieve £150,000 in total sales revenue (May 2021)
  • Achieve £100,000 in total sales revenue (December 8, 2020)
  • Buy an electric guitar (again!) (November 2020)
  • Achieve £15,000 in sales revenue in a month (October/November 2020)
  • Achieve £10,000 in sales revenue in a month (August 2020)

Life Goals

  • Graduate from university (June 2019)
    • First-class honours, BA (Hons) Entrepreneurial Business Management at Northumbria University
  • Find full-time graduate employment prior to graduating
    • Advertising Executive at Living North (May 28, 2019)
  • Become debt-free (excluding student loans)
  • Save £1,000
  • Meet Thomas Frank
  • Never stop learning (always in progress)

Professional Goals

  • Achieve £50,000 in total sales revenue (March 13, 2020)
    • Achieve £100,000 in total sales revenue (December 8, 2020)
    • Achieve £150,000 in total sales revenue (May 2021)
    • Achieve £200,000 in total sales revenue
  • Achieve £10,000 in sales revenue in a month (August 2020)
    • Achieve £15,000 in sales revenue in a month (October/November 2020)
    • Achieve £20,000 in sales revenue in a month

Side-Project Goals

  • Write one blog post per week for a month (August 28, 2020)
    • Write one blog post per week for two months
  • Write a guest post for another blog/publication
  • Start a podcast
  • Grow an e-letter following to 100 subscribers
  • Self-publish a book
  • Launch a YouTube channel and release 10 videos on a consistent schedule
  • Make £1,000 (gross), not through full-time employment (started from January 1st, 2020)

Fitness/Health Goals

  • Weigh no more than 75kg
  • Complete a Tough Mudder
  • Get back into badminton (January 22nd, 2020)
    • Play once a week for 4 consecutive weeks
  • Run a 5K

Habit Goals

  • Eat a pre-planned, prescribed diet for a full week (no sneaky snacking!)
  • Write a minimum of 500 words, 10 days in a row

Creative Goals

  • Perform non-classical vocals in front of a crowd of 100+ people
  • Design any aspect of a product that is readily available on a UK store shelf (can be a logo, packaging etc.)
  • Buy an electric guitar (again!) (November 2020)
  • Learn guitar to the level that I can play the lead guitar in this

Skill Goals

  • Become a competent long-distance longboarder
    • Longboard 10 miles in one day
    • Skate 50 miles in one week
    • Complete a no-support, multiple day journey of more than 50 miles

Fun Goals

  • Drive an open-wheel race car
  • Attend a Formula 1 race
  • Attend a Formula E race
  • Climb a mountain
  • Skate from Land’s End to John o’ Groats
  • Break a world record

Events to Attend

  • E3
  • Baselworld/HourUniverse
  • Watches & Wonders Geneva
  • ComicCon
  • VidCon

Travel Goals

  • Re-visit the Philippines
    • Visit Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental
  • Visit the Netherlands (January 2017)
  • Visit China
    • Visit the Forbidden City
    • Visit Luoyang, Chengdu and Jianye
    • Visit the Wuzhang Plains
  • Visit South Korea
  • Visit Japan
    • Visit the Ghibli Museum, Tokyo
    • Visit the Kenkun Shrine, Kyoto
    • Visit Honnō-ji, Kyoto
    • Visit the Grand Seiko Micro Artist studio in Shiojiri, Nagano prefecture
    • Visit Sekigahara, Gifu prefecture
    • Visit Osaka Castle
  • Visit Italy
    • Go on planned Rome to Nice journey
  • Visit Monaco
    • Do a lap of the Circuit de Monaco, either on foot or by car
  • Visit Spain
  • Visit France
  • Visit the U.S.
    • Visit the Belgian Shoes boutique in New York
    • Attend a lecture at the Horological Society of New York