“Every man dies – Not every man really lives.” ~ William Ross
“The only people who fear death are those with regrets.” ~ Author Unknown
If you don’t live your days by personal goals and plans, chances are you spend most of your time caught up in a flurry of day-to-day activities. Ever feel your days are passing you by without any tangible output to speak of? What did you accomplish in the past 3 months? What are your upcoming goals for the next 3 months? Look at the things you did and the things you're planning to do next – Do they mean anything to you if you are to die today? Having a bucket list reminds you of what’s really important so you can act on them.
The objective of creating this list isn't to instill some kind of a race against time or to create aversion toward death. I don't see our existence to be limited to just our physical years on earth – our physical life span is but a short speck of our existence in the universe.
The whole point of creating your list is to maximize every moment of our existence and live our life to the fullest. It’s a reminder of all the things we want to achieve in our time here, so that instead of pandering our time in pointless activities, we are directing it fully toward what matters to us.
I've always viewed bucket list items as the most far-fetched, outrageous things one could possibly do, so I figure… why limit myself to only those things I can imagine? A bucket list allows me to celebrate the things you would never conjure up in this life. It will allow you to experience things that you would never ever do in your life.
I’ll have to keep it very vague because my imagination can’t compete with the wonderful surprises this world has to offer. I've adjusted my bucket list to include something more meaningful than your everyday bucket list of travelling to places and doing things.
1.Pursue my passion and turn it into a
career (June 2013)
2. Live my life with true meaning
3. Be internationally recognized for my work
4. Be invited to speak overseas
5.Become a vegetarian (May 2013)
6. See fireflies
7. Lived overseas for an extended period of time
8. Travel around Europe
9. Visit the Eiffel Tower at night
10. Visit London / UK
11.Visit New York (February 2012)
12. Visit the famous
Wall Street (Feb 2012)
13. See the Statue of Liberty (Feb 2012)
52. Visit an Ice Hotel (February 2012 - Really cool, literally)
54. Create a room I love (April 2013)62. Fly first class (1999)66. Visit the pyramids of Egypt (April 2013)
67. Ride a camel (April 2013)
72. Go stargazing (2006 - an awe-inspiring moment in my
life gazing upon the mesmerizing, star lit sky)
73. Witness a meteor shower (November 2012 - One of the best experiences in my life)
78. Go trekking in a rainforest (Febrary 2013 - Borneo Rainforest in
Malaysia)
80. Lucid dream (2005)95. Learn ice skating (March 2011)101. Go skinny dipping in public (December 2012)104. Pebble bounce off the surface of
water more than 5 times (2003)105. Go paragliding (January 2010)106. See penguins in the wild 109. Ride a motorbike (February 2010 - When I was in Vietnam, was a really unique experience)111. Fire a machine gun 112. Climbed a mountain - Mt.
Beerburrum, one of the steepest climbs I have ever encountered 113. Bungee
jump 115. Get drivers licence (2008)116. Stayed up all night long and saw the
sun rise (2009)117. Gone to a huge sports game (2010) 121. Slept under the stars (March 2013 - One of my life's best experiences)
123. Smoke a cigarette (2011 -
Something I'll never do again in my life)126. Work at a large music festival (2011)
127. Sing karaoke (2010 - Introduced by
my Taiwanese friends)
128. Gotten drunk on champagne - one of the worst experiences in my
life
129. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope -one
of the best things I've done in my life
130. Had a food fight
131. Ask out a stranger
137. Ridden a roller coaster
138. Hit a home run
139. Gone skiing
140. Danced like a fool and didn't care who was looking
142. Apologize to people I was mean to school
143. Taken care of someone who was drunk
144. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
145. Go whale watching
146. Stolen a sign
147. Gone rock climbing
148. Taken a midnight walk on the beach
149. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
150. Milk a cow
154. Visited the Great Wall of China
155. Taken a martial arts class
156. Ace a uni assignment
157. Crashed a party
158. Bake something from scratch
162. Eaten shark
164. Passed out cold
165. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
with the windows open
166. Broken a bone
167. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (2010)
168. Visit the home of one of the richest people in the country (February 2013)
170. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
171. Publish an article in the newspaper
173. Gone back to school
174. Communicate with someone without sharing a common spoken language
175. Built your own PC from parts
176. Dyed your hair
177. Been a DJ
178. Shave your head
180. Caused a car accident
181. Saved someone’s life
182. Solve a Rubik’s cube
183. Build a campfire
184. Finish a jigsaw puzzle
185. SAW Marathon
186. Learn to Sail
187. Start a lifelong collection.
188. Drive a 40 feet yacht (2008)
191. Go white water canoeing
I've always viewed bucket list items as the most far-fetched, outrageous things one could possibly do, so I figure… why limit myself to only those things I can imagine? A bucket list allows me to celebrate the things you would never conjure up in this life. It will allow you to experience things that you would never ever do in your life.
I’ll have to keep it very vague because my imagination can’t compete with the wonderful surprises this world has to offer. I've adjusted my bucket list to include something more meaningful than your everyday bucket list of travelling to places and doing things.
1.
2. Live my life with true meaning
3. Be internationally recognized for my work
4. Be invited to speak overseas
5.
6. See fireflies
7. Lived overseas for an extended period of time
8. Travel around Europe
9. Visit the Eiffel Tower at night
10. Visit London / UK
11.
13. See the Statue of Liberty (Feb 2012)
14. Check the Empire State Building
15. Jog in the serenity and quiet shroud of the night
16. Astral Project (2007)
17. Achieve the highest level of consciousness (Enlightenment?)
18. See snow (June 2000)
19. Stay awake for 48 hours straight (June 2012)
20. Visit South America
21. Fly a private jet
22. Find and marry my soul mate
23. Climb Mt. Everest
24. Visit Stonehenge
25. See the Northern lights
26. Travel to Antarctica
27. Ski at Whistler (British Columbia)
28. Make love somewhere you're not supposed to
29. Go on a Safari in South Africa
30. Visit the Ruins on Easter Island
31. Travel on the Virgin Atlantic into Space
32. Go Skydiving
33. Set foot in every continent
34. Climb Kilimanjaro
35. Traipse through the Amazon
36. Road trip across USA
37. Find and marry my soul mate
38. Visit Italy, Sistine Chape and Pompeii
39. Start my own company
40. Swim with Dolphins
41. Have my own apartment
42. Have my dream home
43. Speak to over 1,000 people
44. Speak to over 3,000 people
45. Speak to over 5,000 people
46. Speak to over 10,000 people
47. Create my passive income business
48. Achieve six-figure annual revenue for my business
49. Speak to an international audience of thousands of people
50. Appear on TV as a guest speaker
51. Pat a Tiger
16. Astral Project (2007)
19. Stay awake for 48 hours straight (June 2012)
20. Visit South America
21. Fly a private jet
22. Find and marry my soul mate
23. Climb Mt. Everest
24. Visit Stonehenge
25. See the Northern lights
26. Travel to Antarctica
27. Ski at Whistler (British Columbia)
28. Make love somewhere you're not supposed to
29. Go on a Safari in South Africa
30. Visit the Ruins on Easter Island
31. Travel on the Virgin Atlantic into Space
32. Go Skydiving
33. Set foot in every continent
34. Climb Kilimanjaro
35. Traipse through the Amazon
36. Road trip across USA
37. Find and marry my soul mate
38. Visit Italy, Sistine Chape and Pompeii
39. Start my own company
40. Swim with Dolphins
41. Have my own apartment
42. Have my dream home
43. Speak to over 1,000 people
44. Speak to over 3,000 people
45. Speak to over 5,000 people
46. Speak to over 10,000 people
47. Create my passive income business
48. Achieve six-figure annual revenue for my business
49. Speak to an international audience of thousands of people
50. Appear on TV as a guest speaker
51. Pat a Tiger
53. See the Savannah and the wildlife in South Africa
55. Write a book
56. Publish a physical book
57. Hit best sellers list
58. Earn one million dollars
59. Earn three million dollars
60. Earn ten million dollars
61. Go horseback riding (I love horses!)
63. Fly first class again
64. Visit the ancient ruins of Rome
65. Travel around San Francisco on the cable car
68. Walk across a desert (A whole desert)
69. Fly in a hot air balloon
70. Walk on water
71. Visit Disneyland in America
74. Dress up in a costume party
75. Attend a cosplay event
76. Help someone in need
77. Soak in the beauty of a sunset overseas
79. See a grizzly bear in person
81. Throw a big party inviting everyone I know and
everyone they know
82. Experience cherry blossoms in Japan
83. Explore Louvre in Paris
84. Explore a castle
85. Hug a mascot
86. Fall sleep in a hammock
87. Go camping in the woods
88. Sail out in the sea for a week
89. Have a dinner in a location that overlooks the entire city
90. Fly a helicopter
91. Bury a time capsule with key memoirs in a secret location
92. Open the time capsule after 5 years
93. Understand the truth behind time-space continuum
94. Finish reading Plato's Complete Works and understand it
96. Visit the leaning tower of pisa
97. Thank my parents for everything they have done for me
98. Take my parents to their favourite place in the world
99. Go snorkeling and experience marine life up close and personal
100. Go Dog Sledding
102. Join a singing competition
103. Sleep under the stars on a beach
107. Go canoeing (2005)
108. Build a snowman
110. Visit the cemetery at night
114. Watched a lightning storm out in the sea
118. Climb the stairs of the tallest building in
Brisbane
119. Grow and eaten your own vegetables
120. Touched an iceberg
122. Get arrested (I'll find a legal way)
124. Visit every building in your
university
125. Change a baby’s diaper
129. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope -
130. Had a food fight
131. Ask out a stranger
132. Date that stranger
133. Gone white water rafting
134. Had a snowball fight
135. Drive faster than 180km/h
136. Witnessed a total solar eclipse
135. Drive faster than 180km/h
136. Witnessed a total solar eclipse
141. Dance again like a fool
144. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
145. Go whale watching
146. Stolen a sign
147. Gone rock climbing
148. Taken a midnight walk on the beach
149. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
151. Pretended to be a superhero
152. Gone scuba diving
153. Gone to a drive-in theatre
155. Taken a martial arts class
159. Gotten flowers for no reason
160. Buy a lottery ticket
161. Recorded music
163. Spoken more than one language fluently
166. Broken a bone
169. Visit the slums
172. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
179. Shave my head again
182. Solve a Rubik’s cube
185. SAW Marathon
186. Learn to Sail
187. Start a lifelong collection.
189. Travel overseas for my work
190. Actively protest against hunting groups
192. Race on a racetrack
193. Participate in the running of the bulls
194. Actively protest for human rights
195. Volunteer at the RSPCA
196. Meet Barack Obama
197. Meet Oprah Winfrey
198. Seek a meaningful ending about my past complications
199. Become an expert in a field
200. Adopt an accent for an entire day
201. Go a week without technology
202. Try pasta in Italy
203. Spend an entire day cuddling
204. Kiss under the northern lights
205. Visit the heaven's trail in Ireland
206. Treat a homeless guy for a day
207. Give a stranger a $100 bill
208. Go to a Russel Brand show
209. Get a PhD or Masters
210. Meet Richard Branson
211. Meet Prince William
212. Donate a million dollars to a charity
213. Drive a Lamborghini or Ferrari
214. Make a documentary film
215. Start a blog (2013)
216. Create a financial strategy
217. Invest in the stock market (2011)
218. Create a corporation to protect my assets
219. Have a child
220. Raise a happy and healthy child
221. Have a pet (2011)
222. Create a family coat of arms
223. Join "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" (PETA)
224. Own a penthouse
225. Have a zen garden
226. Go to the Olympic games
227. Create an autobiography
228. Run a complete marathon
239. Be a guest speaker at a U.N convention.
.... more to add!
201. Go a week without technology
202. Try pasta in Italy
203. Spend an entire day cuddling
204. Kiss under the northern lights
205. Visit the heaven's trail in Ireland
206. Treat a homeless guy for a day
207. Give a stranger a $100 bill
208. Go to a Russel Brand show
209. Get a PhD or Masters
210. Meet Richard Branson
211. Meet Prince William
212. Donate a million dollars to a charity
213. Drive a Lamborghini or Ferrari
214. Make a documentary film
216. Create a financial strategy
218. Create a corporation to protect my assets
219. Have a child
220. Raise a happy and healthy child
222. Create a family coat of arms
223. Join "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" (PETA)
224. Own a penthouse
225. Have a zen garden
226. Go to the Olympic games
227. Create an autobiography
228. Run a complete marathon
239. Be a guest speaker at a U.N convention.
.... more to add!