I decided I wanted to be braver. So I wrote down a list of 50 things I wanted to do. It wasn’t a bucket list because I wasn’t planning on dying anytime soon. It was a list things that would push me to try new things and get out of my comfort zone.

Bravery is a funny word. We associate it with acts of selflessness in natural disasters, extreme survival situations and wartime. My idea of bravery might be your everyday default setting. If you feel a sense of hesitation, which might be fear or another feeling, then it’s possibly something where you need a little dose of bravery or courage to commit to the activity.

To create your own year of the brave list brainstorm your ideas over a couple of days or a month. You can use my list as a starting point. Then you will want to cull out anything which you would never attempt (so a real tattoo is out for me). Delete anything which is too expensive, too far away or too time-consuming. Some of the activities you might have come up with are things you want to do but really aren’t that scary – these can go on one of your other to do lists.

50 Ideas for Your Be Brave Year List

1. Public speaking or open mic
2. Try a Jet flight simulator
3. See the sunrise from a hot air balloon
4. Go on Harley Davidson motorbike ride
5. Hold an art exhibition
6. Kayak the Noose everglades
7. Learn to ski
8. Go on a Bridge Climb in Brisbane and Sydney
9. Go mudding (without Louis)
10. Brave a Ghost tour
11. Try sand tobogganing
12. Swim with dolphins
13. Flotation tank
14. Dreamworld or Taronga Zoo after dark
15. Eat witchetty grubs
16. Trampolining (Bounce Inc)
17. Paintball
18. Escape room
19. Get sweating while doing Hot yoga
20. Sing Karaoke in a Japanese style bar
21. Segway tour
22. Go on solo trip to Melbourne
23. Walk the tree canopy tour at Lamington National Park
24. 4WD tour of Fraser Island
25. Take a life drawing class
26. Have a Brazilian wax
27. Visit all of Brisbane’s rooftop bars (in a pub crawl)
28. Stay a night in a 5-star mystery hotel
29. Take a gondola trip on Bribie Island
30. Try cryotherapy
31. Glitter bomb my enemies
32. Talk to a homeless person and buy a magazine
33. Do the Skypoint Climb at Gold Coast
34. Sand buggy (Gold Coast Island Buggy Tours $170)
35. Try UberEats for lunch, stay in an Airbnb and take an Uber somewhere
36. Skinny dip in a natural area
37. Ride a Vespa
38. Participate in a flash mob
39. Attend a networking event
40. Sleep naked
41. Go on a colour run
42. Camp on the beach at Fraser Island
43. Hire a private yacht in the Whitsundays
44. Try salt therapy
45. Go on a scenic flight in an old-fashioned plane, like a Cessna, tiger moth or warbird
46. Korean bathhouse
47. Dye my hair mermaid colours
48. Hold a snake around my body
49. Get a pin-up style photo taken
50. Dress up as Wonder Women and go to a cosplay event