MEGA WATT!
Watt Nicoll sets himself nine goals ahead of his 90th birthday
Charlie McCann
Watt Nicoll will be 90 years of age on 24th December 2025. Instead of thinking about relaxing or retiring he has set himself some amazingly creative, imaginative and ambitious, yet completely unselfish goals to mark his nine decades on the planet.
His goals are as follows:
- GIVE TIME – he intends to spend at least 90 minutes with each of 90 people (or small groups) who presently experience loneliness, isolation, fear, poverty or physical/mental/social challenges, firstly to listen and then to explore how and what he could do to help them with the issues they face. With appropriate approvals some of these may be recorded.
- ENTERTAIN – he is putting on nine concerts for up to 90 guests at a time. He will perform his unique music, songs and stories for at least 90 minutes. During each performance he will demonstrate the use at least nine separate musical instruments. This will be filmed.
- RECORD & DOCUMENT – he is intent on compiling/writing 90 original songs, poems, motivational quotations and limericks reflecting his thoughts on life. There will be at least 90 printed and signed books of this work distributed free to supporters of the project and given to music/literary charities throughout Scotland.
- OLD CONTACTS – he proposes to recall, find and contact nine ‘famous’ friends or business connections whom he has not seen or heard from for at least nine years. The main purpose is for him to just ask how they are, wish them well, and offer a face-to-face meet-up. Some will be recorded and available as a podcast.
- NEW EXPERIENCES – he plans to visit 90 new places, people or situations which he has never experienced or would not naturally come across in his day-to-day life. Again, these will be recorded for possible podcasting.
- NEW SENSES – he wants to try 90 new tastes, sights, sounds and sensations, none of which he has ever experienced before and may not have normally tried without setting this goal. These will be recorded/filmed for posterity.
- FITNESS – he is going to walk one 90-kilometre trek in one nine-day journey with nine companions, for all or part of the journey, who can enjoy and share their own life lessons with ‘Mega’ Watt! He will also climb one 900-metre hill with at least nine companions and cycle a 90-kilometre length of the Scottish canal network.
- INSPIRE – he will seek out and identify at least nine ordinary people as new mentees who he feels he can inspire to achieve something extraordinary for themselves, their business or for society within the next nine years. With approvals, some of these will be filmed.
- LEGACY – he is intent on using all of the above activities during the next 12 months to raise at least £90,000 to be shared by nine local charities and to make the gifts just after his 90th birthday at a spectacular finale – a one-man concert at which the year’s accomplishments will be celebrated and the people who participated/benefited will be in the audience.
So, nine profound and meaningful goals to mark nine decades of his marvellously interesting life. A life full of care and service to others, with love of family, friends and his followers, all of whom are enlisted to ensure he succeeds.
