My Life List
- Give a speech to more than 500 people.
- Learn to play the guitar and spend an afternoon singing as a street performer.
- Learn enough Spanish to carry a 5 minute conversation with a stranger.
- Get an article published in the Newnan Times Herald.
- Cook a Low Country Boil for more than 10 people.
- Live outside the US for 6 months.
- Couchsurf.
- For-real surf.
- Ride a bike across a country.
- Complete the MatadorU Travel Writing course.
- Go to a rave.
- Play a round of golf at Pebble Beach.
Become debt free. (Done, May 11, 2010!)- Visit Silicon Valley.
- Write a letter/email to Tim Cook.
- Participate in Burning Man.
- Give, or at least attend a TED Talk.
- Publish a book and sell more than 100 copies.
- Spend a night on a beach.
- Read the entire Bible.
- Catch a fly bare handed.
- Kayak under a waterfall.
- Learn how to swim…like for real swim, not doggy-paddle swim.
- Use a semicolon; properly.
- Get my Captains license.
- Fly a seaplane.
- Hike the Appalachian Trail.
- Attend SXSW.
- Ride in a helicopter.
- Give away a million dollars.
- Sail around the world.
- Ride a boat through the Panama Canal.
- Sleep in a hammock in the San Blas islands.
- Swim with a sea turtle in the Galapagos Islands.
- Play rugby in New Zealand.
- Tweet from the Equator.
- Start a fire without a match.
Attend Junkanoo. (Done. Kinda.)- Be in a huge food fight.
- Attend a religious service in 5 different countries.
- Weigh 185 lbs again.
- Learn to use a sextant.
- Attend “An Event Apart”.
- Run a whole marathon.
- Write something in my journal at least once a day, every day for a month.
- Spend the night in an Ice Hotel.
- Show up at the airport and take the first available flight to somewhere I haven’t been.
- Create or star in a video that goes viral & gets more than 1 million views.
- Get married. And stay that way.
- Live in a house unreachable by car.
Ok…so that’s my bucket list. Do you have one? Post a link in the comments!
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I hope to do a couple of those with you.
love,
Dad
You will! The question is which ones? Do I get to choose?
What a wonderful list! And your dad, how sweet of him!
Everyone should have a life list. Okay wait. Everyone should have a life first!!
Hah…agreed. I think everybody has a list of the things they want to do, the key is writing it down. I didn’t realize how many things there were on mine until I actually started putting it on paper.
What a fabulous list! I have no doubt that you will consistently mark things off either. And doesn’t crossing #13 off make you super happy and empowered?!
Have fun with it!
Thanks Pam! It’s amazing how much your perspective changes when you get out of debt.
love the list- when you sail around the world you will be able to knock out several! You are so fun! Love you SO!
I know you’ll accomplish whatever you desire…just hope I live long enough to hear about it all! You’re amazing and I enjoy and love you so!
Have I mentioned lately how inspiring you are? What a great list. Hope we’ll be a part of a few of those, too.
I know you will be…I mean, you already were a part of the
near death gang fightJunkanoo experience…Congrats on being debt free. How much did you pay off if you don’t mind my asking? And did you call Dave Ramsey and scream it on the air? I’m working on it but have a long way to go (those AUHD gigs help though!).
so proud of you Bo!!!! Have yet to cross out #13, maybe next paycheck. I have always wanted to do #39, why didn’t we think of that at the family reunion?
Wicked, BO! I have a list also. As I check one off I add another to the bottom. One of my goals was to see puffins in their natural habitat (they are so fuzzy and cute) and another was to see a cranberry bog ( I love the CranApple commercial). Last fall Denis and I went to Nova Scotia and when we got there I realized that both of those goals could be realized. Unfortunately, the puffins had left the island the week before we got there and the cranberries were about 2 weeks away from getting red. Oh well, guess we’ll just have to get back!
I read the bible front to back- took me a year. Just to give you a reference time-wise. (i didn’t read it every day). Great list! May you cross off many soon.
Nice list!!! You definitely need to Couchsurf!
i’m inspired to create my own…. my website isn’t really in the same vein as yours (nor has it been updated in forever), but maybe we can share a few experiences. reading through your list has really made me appreciate and, frankly, miss getting to hang out with you. I know we do the “let’s get together thing” whenever we happen to hang out, but at the very least, let’s keep in better email touch. some thoughts on your list in what will be the most extended comment on this post:
1. the speech thing was a huge deal on my “list” that i didn’t know existed when i was young, and one i hope to repeat again… great choice and one that most people would never think of wanting to do…but also one that is absolutely exhilerating. (was the speech i gave at 1st baptist in front of that many people? if not, it’s back on my list)
2. Want to run a marathon? we’ve talked about it. i’m down to set a date and do it if you give me at least 6 months to train. There’s one in orlando in January…just saying.
3. I just made a friend who plays a lot of rugby, i’ll find out if they’re doing any international trips.
4. Lee moody flies the helicopter for Newnan PD. You should totally hit him up for a ride- he loves doing it.
5. A friend of mine couchsurfed and said it was a life changing experience, but just be careful. I’ve read some horror stories :-p
enough for now- email me!
I had no idea about a) your website or b) your extensive amount of life-long goals….You are now my hero. PS I’ve slept in an Ice-hotel. beat that.
I have a life list too! It’s great to see that we share some similar goals (#3, 4, 20). My list has been around for several years now, and although I’ve crossed some things off, I continue to add goals. That’s part of the fun I think. One of my goals is one with which you can help. Jesalyn’s goal #10: sail in a sailboat. Perhaps I can help you with your #24; I just tried to help with the previous two sentences.
I’d like to be considered as a participant if you tackle #27 and 37!