Even though making Bucket lists is sooo 2007, the book I’m reading (“The Success Principles” by Jack Canfield) has an exercise where you list the things you want to accomplish before you reach your expiration date.
My list is below. Things I have already done/experienced/accomplished are in red. Enjoy!
101 Things to Do Before I Buy the Farm
1. Travel to all 7 Continents
2. Become Debt Free & Always pay for business ventures with cash
3. Learn to Drive Stick
4. Graduate from College
5. Marry the love of my life
6. Learn Muy Thai
7. Attend a Super Bowl
8. Have an investment portfolio of $10 million +
9. Start a company that employs the smartest people I know… Deltasigs
10. Attend a Dinner at the White House
11. Learn to Surf
12. Climb a Mountain
13. Employ over 1000 people
14. Sing drunken karaoke at a Tokyo bar
15. Learn Mandarin Chinese
16. Give over $1 million towards ending domestic poverty
17. Host Saturday Night Live
18. Learn to Salsa Dance
19. Visit all 7 Wonders of the New World
20. Run a Half Marathon
21. Take a culinary trip through the Mediterranean
22. Be a mentor to someone
23. Host a Radio Show
24. Skydive
25. Write a book on a topic that means a lot to me
26. Travel in Space
27. Build our Dream Lake House
28. Volunteer at a Hospice
29. Perfect lucid dreaming
30. Become a Father
31. Hit 3 triple 20s in darts on a single turn
32. Fly first class
33. Attend a Grand Chapter Congress
34. Be a professional chef
35. Own an apartment overlooking Central Park
36. Drive a Tank
37. Hawaii
38. Experience Carnival in Rio
39. Experience Mardi Gras in New Orleans
40. Experience the Pyramids of Giza
41. Touch the lives of others in a positive way
42. Be a grandparent
43. Coach a youth sports team
44. Serve as a District Director for DSP
45. Hold a publicly elected office… Or at least financially back a candidate.
46. Be a CEO
47. Bench press my own weight
48. Fire a Heckler and Koch MP5
49. Be a guest on the Tonight Show
50. Be a good father/husband
51. Play in the World Series of Poker Main Event
52. Be in a feature film
53. Be given a key to a city
54. See the Mona Lisa
55. Own a Pontoon
56. Host a black tie-gala at our home
57. Work as a Historian
58. Establish an endowment for the Kappa Upsilon chapter of DSP
59. Start a media company that inspires the masses towards their goals and successes
60. Eat a Vegemite sandwich
61. Ride in a Gondola in Venice
62. Join the Mile High Club
63. Serve on jury duty
64. Attend an Oktoberfest in Munich
65. Attend an Olympic games where our children/grand children are competing
66. Provide full college scholarships for 100 worthy students
67. Build an impressive historical art/memorabilia collection
68. Attend a Dave Ramsey Entre-Leadership Conference
69. Earn my pilot’s license
70. Be arrested in a foreign country
71. Own a restaurant
72. Travel through The Chunnel
73. Drive the entire length of I-90
74. Have one of our sons/daughters become President of the United States
75. Take a Ferrari for a test drive
76. Go organic
77. Put $100,000 on black
78. Have a picnic at the Eiffel Tower
79. Vacation in an English Castle
80. Tithe faithfully
81. Make a hole in one.
82. Play poker against Phil Ivey
83. Own my own island
84. Write a cookbook
85. Speak in front of a live audience of at least 10,000 people
86. Buy a round for the entire bar
87. Send one of our children to an Ivy League School
88. Experience Machu Picchu
89. Build a cinema quality home theater
90. Own a private jet
91. Become my generation’s Dave Ramsey. A voice of reason.
92. Attend a D-Day ceremony in Normandy
93. Summer in Bellagio at Lake Como, Italy
94. Complete the 72oz Steak Challenge at The Big Texan in Amarillo Texas
95. Visit all the major battlefields of the Civil War
96. Have an net worth of $100 million
97. Own a Mercedes-Benz
98. Obtain a patent on an invention
99. Travel the length of the Mississippi on a steamboat
100. Ensure my children can be whatever they want to be
101. Leave an endowment for the national library system
My mom is in Amarillo Texas right now, attempting to eat the 72oz steak! Apparently that was on her bucket list too. I’ll have her relay some pointers for you.