So I was extraordinarily motivated late one night while I was daydreaming about my new goal to travel the world. I came up with a loosely-organized plan, listed all the places I want to visit, tried to find the cheapest way to do it all, and wrote it all down in an Evernote list.
Then while I was motivated I came up with a bucket list. I expected to forget all about it and procrastinate doing any of it. But it turns out when you're unemployed you've got lots of free time (that which isn't being spent applying places, that is...) to do the stuff you've always been meaning to do.
Anyway, here's my work-in-progress list. I'm currently working on four of them. These are not in any kind of prioritized order.
- Travel the world
- Chop down a tree with an ax
- Mona rope swing one more time
- Ask out a complete stranger
- Build a computer from components
- Learn to make beautiful websites
- Go to culinary school (or at least a few great culinary classes)
- Get married to the girl of my dreams
- Move out of Utah
- Learn/memorize how to fold a fitted sheet
- Fly a kite from a mountain
- Leave a message in a bottle with my contact info
- Do as much family history research as I can get information for
- Go on a date in a foreign country
- Learn Spanish
- Learn French
- Learn Italian
- Learn Japanese
- Learn to do a kick flip on a skateboard
- Learn how to do a backflip
- Make money from selling an iPhone app
- Start a successful business
- Learn to sing like I've always wanted to be able to
- Learn to play the piano
- Start practicing violin again and perform again at least once
- Try growing my hair out
- Ride an elephant
- Be in a place with 24 hours of light/darkness
- See the northern lights
- Throw and catch a boomerang
- Take a road trip on a motorcycle
- Learn to sail
- Learn to tie all those knots from boy scouts I forgot (and know when they're used)
- Learn to pick a lock
- Learn to hot wire a car (if reasonably possible...?)
Can you guess which four I'm currently engaged in?
Number 5
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DeleteNope! Not yet at least.
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ReplyDeleteStart practicing the violin again and perform
Try growing your hair out
Do as much family research as you can
Ooh, got two of them right! I am taking violin lessons again and may be joining a local symphony, and I am learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript in the hopes of learning to make great-looking websites :)
DeleteThe other ones are learning Spanish (pretty darn easy when I already speak Portuguese since they are pretty much the same language), and move out of Utah (although since I wrote this I found a possible opportunity with the church, so I may take this off my list of goals I'm currently working on...)
Course then I could just add "marry the girl of my dreams" since I like to think I'm always working on that one ;)
Hi, I came across your nice long bucket list and it gave me some good ideas! Which ones are you engaged in currently? Riding an elephant is fun (did it last year) :)
ReplyDeleteJust completed a dream of mine - an iPhone app (adream) where people can share their dreams and goals in a fun way. Hopefully it helps you towards your goals :)
Best, Ray
http://twitter.com/raytanys
adream - http://adre.am/app (iPhone app)
I'm into this list. Lets do it.
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