Achievements - a reminder

Sometimes in the daily hustle and bustle of life I forget some of the amazing things that have happened to me in my life. I'm just an ordinary kid from a working class background, i was quite average at school, never really popular and my family was never very well off. So when it comes to listing some of the stuff I've done its quite a shock to me.

So this is a nice little list that I'll probably keep adding to, I encourage you all to give it a go, you'd be surprised what you've managed to do!

• Got married to an amazing woman and we're still going strong (18 years of marriage and 26 years together).
• I'm the father of two amazing boys (13 and 11 at time of writing)

There you go, that's the most obvious ones out of the way, but in all seriousness they're the two I'm most proud of. I know myself pretty well so I do find it amazing that Sarah does still want to be with me after all this time. Anyway on to the not so obvious ones:

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  Sat on the great pyramids of Giza
• I've taken a long boat down the Mekong river in Laos
• Played a gig to 500 hundred angry bikers.....and survived
• Washed my feet in Loch Ness, didn't see any monster though.
• I have two degrees (ones interesting and the other is dull)
• Recorded two EP's with two different bands.
• Ridden an indian elephant
• Stood on top of the Empire State Building
• Sat on the side of the Grand Canyon
  
• Stood 20ft from a moving lava flow on an active volcano
• Watched the sunset from a raft offshore of a Vietnamese Island (Phu Quoc)
• Touched Ayers Rock (Uluru)
• Crawled through the German artillery bunkers of Pont Du Hoc
• Visited the Gibson factory in Memphis
  

• Touched the wall of Gracelands
• Visited NASA in Florida
• Seen Stonehenge
• Run the same multi-terrain half marathon three times (the one time my wife ran it she beat my fastest time!)
• Emigrated to New Zealand without any support and managed to survive!
• Have held my MCIPs since May 2005
• Seen the Roman Fora, the Coloseum and the Trevi Fountain
• Visited Berlin and stood in the Holocaust memorial
  
• Spoken to veterans of the Vietnam war in both their countries
• Swum on the Great Barrier Reef
• Visited the lagoon that inspired the book "The Beach"
• Hand fed wild dolphins in Australia
• Hand fed orphaned baby kangaroos
• Held a snake (ugh)
• Worked on a stud farm with a herd of Hanoverians
• Seen taoist buddhist monks march in the early hours of the morning in Luang Prabang
• Become a Scout leader (Keas in NZ)
• I've stood in Frodo's bedroom in Rivendell
• Spent 3 days in the casino's of Las Vegas and didn't gamble
• Rode a train from Northern Italy to Sicily in the company of some Italian workmen who spoke no English (it was a blast).
• Seen the Matterhorn
• Traveled from north to south Vietnam by train
• Enjoyed being a child again at Disneyworld Florida
• Visited 5 continents and circumnavigated the world.
• Walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, London & Tower Bridge, the Golden Gate bridge, Ponte Vecchio (Florence) and the Rialto Bridge (Venice) - anyone would think I'm obsessed with bridges!
• Walked through NZ bush with my kids at night to see glow worms!
• Held both my children within seconds of their birth.

What have you done? Have a think and make a list,  it will help you when you feel down.  Just pull out your list and have a read!!!!