1. Get lost.
2. Try your hair a bunch of different ways.
3. Learn how to swim, cycle, and drive. (In that order.)
4. Join a book club that meets in person.
5. Go to a restaurant where you can’t read the menu.
6. When you have the time you don’t have the money and when you have the money you don’t have the time. Borrow from your future self.
7. Two baseline rules for good sex: Everyone’s glad to be there. Everyone’s free to leave.
8. Spend a few hours in a big empty parking lot early on a Sunday with someone you trust learning how to drive stick.
9. Stay somewhere overnight just you and a backpack.
10. Good helmet, good brain. Cheap helmet, cheap brain. No helmet, no brain.
11. Learn how to change a diaper.
12. Skinny dip.
13. Take a local course on something your grandparents did but you don’t. Car fixing, quilt making, bread baking?
14. Buy sheet music for your favourite song and learn how to play it on a piano.
15. Download free apps Libby for audiobooks, eBird for birdwatching, and Strava for movement.
16. Don’t take something you’ve never taken before doing something you’ve never done.
17. Classes are good gifts and good dates.
18. If you’ve had a business summer job do a fun summer job and if you’ve had a fun summer job do a business summer job.
19. Get two hours of out-of-breath cardio a week.
20. Talk to yourself the way you talk to your best friend.
