IF YOU DIED TOMORROW, WOULD YOU BE HAPPY WITH THE LIFE YOU LED?

BUCKET LIST

Above is my bucket list that I’ve been compiling since I was 15. I hope it inspires you to make a list of plans for your life.


THE CHALLENGING

the easy

EXPERIENCE

  • Listen to Compline in person - Sundays in Seattle

  • Alaskan Cruise

  • Amazon Rainforest Expedition

  • A Music Festival

  • Japanese tea ceremony

  • A masquerade

  • The World Cup Finals

  • a midnight opening showing to a movie

  • a massive pool party

  • Barefooting

  • Base jump

  • Bathe in a geothermal spa

  • Battle the ocean waves during a storm

  • Be part of global movement

  • Be romantically dipped

  • Be served breakfast in bed

  • Be surrounded by people that share my desire to make the world a better place.

  • Be woken up with a kiss

  • Achieve your perfect weight - LEAN

  • Bingo with the elderly

  • Blow glass

  • Blue Man Group show

    Body Museum

  • Cable car

  • Walk through a castle

    Walk where Jesus walked

    Watch a meteor shower

    Watch a space shuttle launch

    Watch a sumo wrestling match

  • Burning man

  • Candle lit dinner with your husband

  • Celebrate another country’s independence day

  • Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at an Irish pub

  • Christmas in Leavenworth, Washington

  • Cirque Du Solei show

  • Costa Rica yoga retreat

  • Silence for a week

  • Find animals in the clouds with someone I love

  • Be a part of a Flash Mob

  • Float in the Dead Sea

  • First class on an airplane

  • Egg fight

DO

  • 50 consecutive push ups

  • Attach a lock to love lock bridge

  • Achieve financial abundance with your passion

  • Adopt a child

  • Adopt a Highway

  • Back pack through Europe

  • Bake a dessert for someone special

  • Be a foster parent

  • Be a missionary

  • Be a role model

  • Be a teacher

  • Be confident at cutting hair

  • Be considered “famous”

  • Be CPR certified

  • Be in a demolition derby

  • Be in a movie

  • Be in a triathlon

  • Be kissed unexpectedly

  • Be on a jury

  • Be on the cover of a magazine

  • Be the maid of honor

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters Program

  • Bowl a turkey

  • Bowl over 200

  • Break a record

  • Build a dirt bike track

  • Build a giant sandcastle

  • Build a passive income business -  rental property

  • Build a piece of your own furniture

  • Build a tent out of blankets

  • Build a tree house

  • Build an Igloo – real ice

  • Build something that will outlast you

  • Build Your Own Website

  • Bungee Jump

  • Bungee Jump off a bridge

  • Burn off a motorcycle tire

  • Buy stocks - Invest

  • Call the customer service (of a service provider you like) and thank them for the great service

  • Catch a fish

  • Catch a guitar pick at a concert

  • Catch a shark

  • Celebrate my 100th birthday

  • Chalk drawings in a public area

  • Change a flat tire

  • Charter a yacht

  • Cliff Diving

  • Climb a mountain

  • Climb a water tower

  • Climb Kilimanjaro

  • Climb to Base Camp at Mount Everest

  • Complete a Spartan Race

  • Complete a Tough Mudder

  • Confetti egg fight

Connect with a teacher from your past. Let them know how they have shaped your life.

  • Couch surf

  • Create a mural wall somewhere

  • Create a valuable YouTube video (get at least 10,000 views)

  • Create an extravagant scavenger hunt for someone

  • Create your dream home

  • Creation Museum trip

  • CROSS COUNTRY road trip with your friends

  • CROWD SURF

  • Cruise on the ocean

  • Cruise to Antarctica

  • Cut down my own Christmas tree

  • Cycle the Death Road – Bolivia

  • Dance in the pouring rain

  • Dance on a bar

  • Dance romantically under the Eiffel Tower

  • Date a cowboy

  • Declutter, cut out bad friends, drop poor relationships. Quit doing the things you hate, break bad habits. Get your life in shape.

  • Discover Your Life’s Purpose

  • Discover your Love Language – QUALITY TIME

  • Do 10 fully extended pull ups

  • Do 5 back hand springs in a row

  • Do a back flip on a wake board

  • Do a backflip off a horse

  • Do a foot ion detox

  • Do a full body cleanse

  • Do a keg stand

  • Do EVERYTHING on my Bucket List

  • Do something in every U.S state

  • Do the splits

  • Don’t drink on your 21st birthday

  • Don’t eat desserts/sweets for a month

  • Donate a million dollars

  • Donate blood

  • Donate bone marrow

  • Donate my hair

  • Donate plasma

  • Drink a margarita in Mexico

  • Drink beer at Oktoberfest

  • Drink coffee from a cat’s poop

  • Drink from a $1000 bottle of wine or champagne

  • Drink milk from a coconut

  • Drink wine in the Napa Valley, California

  • Drive a speed boat on the ocean

  • Drive a sports car

  • Drive Route 66

  • Drive the Autobahn

  • Drive through difference

  • Drive through the Channel Tunnel

  • Drive to New York on a whim

  • Drop a water balloon off a building

  • Dumpster diving

  • Eat a cactus

  • Eat a cannoli in Italy

  • Eat a gyro in Greece

  • Eat a hot dog on the Coney Island Boardwalk

  • Eat and ostrich egg

  • Eat at an under the sea restaurant

  • Eat at le jules verne

  • Eat at one of the 50 best restaurants

  • Eat at Tom Wahls in Avon, NY

  • Eat Belgian waffles in Belgium

  • Eat dinner by sparkler light

  • Eat no processed foods for a month

  • Eat pizza in Italy

  • Eat sauerkraut on New Year’s Day

  • Eat Something Raw (off a tree or out of the ground)

  • Eat the worm at the bottom of a mezcal bottle

  • Experience Love

  • Experience Weightlessness

  • Explore a Paleolithic Cave in Altamira

  • Explore Angkor Wat

  • EXTREME water balloon fight

  • Fall asleep in a hammock

  • Fall asleep on grassy plains

  • FEAR NOTHING

  • Feed a lemur in Madagascar

  • Fighter pilot for a day

  • Fill a truck bed with pillows and sleep under the stars

  • Fill out a NCAA bracket

  • Find a four-leaf clover

  • Find a shark tooth

Fix something for someone and don’t tell them

Fly a kite

Fly a kite in a kite festival

Fly an airplane

Fold a 100 origami cranes and give them to someone special

FOLLOW YOUR GUT

 Forgive Someone – showing complete mercy

Free factory tour – Debrand’s

Frog gigging

Gain enlightenment

Gamble at a casino

Gamble in Vegas

Ganor off a bridge

Ganor off a high dive 30ft+

Gather leaders of numerous religions for a meal and religious debates

Geocaching

Get a caricature drawn of myself

Get a full body message/facial

Get a hot rock massage

Get a picture with every welcome to sign in the United States (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)

Get a professional photo portfolio

Get a rocking 6 pack

Get a tattoo

Get a word into the dictionary

Get an audience of 1000 people

Get closure on all your hurt, grievances and unhappiness of the past

Get featured on TV/radio/print/newspapers for an achievement you are proud of

Get front row tickets to a concert

Get into a physical fight

Get motorcycle license

Get my Bucket List published

Get on a plane – having 0 plans for when you land

Get wrapped in an elephant trunk

Get your boating license

Get Your Life In Shape

Give 100 compliments in 1 day

Give a heartfelt surprise to someone

Give a million dollars to someone who deserves it

Glacier Garden

Go a week without complaining

Go camping

Go cheese rolling

Go coastal fishing

Go deep into the heart of Mother Nature for a week

Go deep sea fishing

Go for future education in a different specialization

Go in the Pentagon

Go in the White House

Go mudding

Go On a Blind Date (not knowing anything about him)

Go on a camping trip with my friends

Go on a couples retreat

Go on a missions trip

Go on a motorcycle trip

Go on a photo run

Go on a romantic getaway

Go on a Safari

Go on a submarine

Go on a trip with your best friend

Go on an elaborate weekend trip SPONTANEOUSLY!

Go paragliding

Go piranha fishing

Go sandboarding

Go through a hedge maze

Go to a Berry picking place

Go to a Big Fight in Vegas

Go to a bog snorkeling competition

go to a bulletin board and try everything on it, at least call

Go to a cheese making place

Go to a club/bar on your own and make some new friends

Go to a comedy club

Go to a Comic Convention

Go to a drive-in movie theater

Go to a Jehovah Witness Memorial

Go to a perfumery

Go to a planetarium

Go to a polo match

Go to a real blues bar in Chicago

Go to a roof top party

Go to a shrimp boil

Go to a TED talk

Go to a World Expo

Go to an art museum

Go to an dining etiquette class

Go to an NBA game

Go to Bass Pro Shop/Cabelas

Go to Full Moon Party – Thailand

Go to Ikea

Go to Isle Royal and see a wolf and moose

GO TO OUTER SPACE $200,000

Go to the beach during a lightning storm – find sand glass

Go to the dinosaur park

Go to the North Pole

Go to the Olympic games

Gondola in Venice

Graduate from college

Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

Grow blueberries and concord grapes

Grow sunflowers

Hand milk a cow

Hand out $100 bills to strangers through life

Hand out lemons while wearing a shirt that says “LIFE”

Hang Christmas lights all over my bedroom

Hang Glide

Have a baby fall asleep in my arms

Have a best friend of the opposite sex – prove healthy relationships exist

Have a booth at the farmers market

Have a costume party

Have a drink at Trump Tower’s 16th story bar

Have a fire on the beach

Have a Kroger sushi night

Have a legitimate food fight

Have a lemon tree in my backyard

Have a lucid dream

Have a memorable proposal

Have a nerf gun war

Have a song dedicated to you

Have a spiral staircase in my house

Have a summer job

Have a surprise party thrown for me

Have an adult sleepover with girl friends

Have an air soft gun fight

Have an elaborate picnic

Have dinner with a homeless person

Have dinner with someone you had only dreamed of meeting

Have power, but never abuse it

Have someone else plan out one of your bucket list items for you

Have your heart broken

Have your love sing you a song

Have your portrait painted

Helicopter ride

Help sea turtles find their way to the ocean

Help someone create a bucket list

Help someone fulfill a goal

Help Someone Without Wanting Anything in Return

Hike the Appalachian trail

Hike the Inca trail in Peru

Hit bull’s-eye on a dartboard

Hitch hike

Hold a baby sea turtle

Hold a Koala

Holi Festival - India

horse drawn carriage ride

Horseback riding in the ocean

Host a Couchsurfer

Hot Air Balloon ride

House boat on Lake Cumberland

I will enjoy being considered crazy/different. That means that I am not like the rest of the world

I will take every opportunity with open arms

I will treat myself and others with total respect even when they don't receive it

Identify someone who has inspired you the most in your life. Let him/her know how much he/she has inspired you

In-door skydiving

Indy 500

Inspire someone small

Jello wrestle

JFK Bunker - FL

Jump a dirt bike

Jump in the car and just drive until you want to stop (get lost in nature and the unknown)

Jump into a foam pit

Jump off a waterfall

Karaoke

Kayak Fawn River

Kayak from Linn Grove to Huntington Resorvoir

Kayak the 6 mile

Kayak the Wabash in the winter

Keep a friend for 20 years

Keep bees

Kentucky Derby

Kiss A Total Stranger

Kiss in a hay loft

Kiss in the back of a taxi

Kiss on a beach at sunset

Kiss on a kiss cam

Kiss on top of a Ferris wheel

Kiss someone on new years

Kiss someone unexpectedly

Kiss the Blarney Stone

Kiss under fireworks

Kiss under the mistletoe

Kiss underwater

Knit a scarf

Laugh with my husband multiple times daily

Lay down in a field of flowers

Learn a back full on trampoline

Learn a back tuck

Learn a Foreign Language

Learn a rubix cube

Learn a type of martial arts

Learn about celebrating Haunnaka

Learn about celebrating Kwanza

Learn all of the Presidents – WELL

Learn archery

Learn calligraphy

Learn chess

Learn hello in 50 languages (Hello, Ciao, Hola, Bula, Shalom,

Learn how to crochet or knit

Learn how to drywall

Learn how to frame a wall

Learn how to graffiti

Learn how to pogo stick well

Learn how to put in a boat

Learn how to solder

Learn origami

Learn sign language (100 signs)

Learn the Cyote Ugly dance

Learn To Dance

Learn to juggle

Learn to play an instrument

Learn to sail on your own

Learn to sew

Learn where every country is

Learn wine appreciation

Learn your family tree

Leave a waitress a $100 tip

Let go of a floating lantern

Let go of your past

Live a life I’m proud of

Live in a Foreign Country for at least 3 months

Live on an island for at least a month

Live on the beach

lobster fishing

Loop, barrel roll, and weightlessness in an airplane

Lunch at the Bluebird Café

Mad Ants Game

Make $1,000,000 in one year

Make A Difference To The World and NEVER STOP

Make A Donation

Make a hole in one

Make a running list of all your favorite quotes/verses

Make banana splits/ice cream sundaes

Make child pay for college and write them a check for that amount for graduation

Make friends with at least 5 strangers

Make healthy homemade pizzas

Make homemade piñatas

Make homemade Snow Cones

Make homemade taffy

Make Ice Cream

Make Money From Your Own Entrepreneurial Project/Business

 Make mozzarella

Make rock candy

Make S’mores over a fire

Make someone breakfast in bed

Make your own tie-dye

Make your own wine

Mall of America

Mardi Gras – New Orleans

Marry my best friend.

Marry the love of my life

Master the scorpion pose

Meet someone famous and act like you don’t know them

Memorize the full Christmas story

Milk a cow and goat

Mind Tripping Show

Model for a Company

Monaco Grand Prix

MotoGP

Motorbike through Vietnam

Mud Festival

Naked skydiving

Neon paint party

Never say “I’m getting old”

Offer your service to a humanitarian cause

Open your pantry and make something delicious on a whim

Own 2 cell phones at one time

Own a bar in the Caribbean

Own a beater car

Own a boat

Own a Bonsai tree

Own a car bed

Own a circular bed

Own a four wheeler

Own a horse

Own a Jeep Wrangler 

Own a Micro Pub

Own a monkey

Own a moped as primary vehicle

Own a motorcycle

Own a mudding vehicle

Own a pair of Oakleys

Own a Pet

Own a polaroid

Own a rental house

Own a shack on the beach

Own a sports car just for fun

Own a truck

Own a Volkswagon bus

Own a water ball

Own an airplane

Own an inversion table

Own my own business centered on God

Paddle board

Paint a picture with lemon juice on white paper (and hang it in a sunny window and see what happens in a few days.)

Paint murals for a local business

Paint yourself naked and lay on a canvas

Paintballing

Pass an heirloom to your child (that you have been saving your whole life)

Pass on a family heirloom

Pass on something much greater than money to my children

Pay for a stranger’s groceries

Pee in every ocean (Atlantic, Pacific, )

Perfect a magic trick

Perform a fake proposal in a public place

Perform a kind deed to at least 5 strangers without expecting anything in return

Pet a penguin

Photograph scavenger hunt

Pick up a hitch hiker – by yourself

Pilot license

Pina Colada in Puerto Rico

Plant A Tree

Play a Game Of Blackjack

Play a Game of Texas Hold ‘em (And Bluff a Hand)

Play at a bingo hall

Play Beer Pong

Play in the leaves

Play messy twister with friends

Powdered paint fight

Primarily live in a bikini

Publish a book

Pursue your passion

Push someone into a pool fully clothed

Put $100 On “Red” in Roulette

Read “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Dale Carnege

Read a book on a subject you’d never have thought of reading

Read a book series

Read Revelations

Read the 5 Love Languages

Read The Alchemist by Paulho Coelho

Read the Committee of 300

Read the entire Bible

Read The Master Key

Read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

Realize why no other relationship worked

Receive flowers at work

Receive flowers from someone unknown

Record a song in a studio

Resign from a job you don’t like

Ride a Camel

Ride a camel in the desert

Ride a double decker bus

Ride a horse bareback

Ride a mechanical bull

Ride a NY subway

Ride a Segway

Ride a steamboat down the Mississippi River

Ride a unicycle

Ride an elephant

Ride an ostrich

Ride in a limo

Ride in a private jet

Ride in the Badlands

Ride on a dog sled

Ride the Blue Ridge Parkway in N.C

Ride the London eye

Ride the Rocky Mountaineer train

Ride the Singapore Flyer

Ride the Tail of the Dragons in N.C

Ride the underwater roller coaster in Japan

Ride the vomit comet

Ride the X train

Rio de Janeiro Carnival

Road trip in a convertible

Road trip Route 1

Road Trip with your best friend

Rock climb a mountain

roll down a hill in a piece of tile

Run a 5K

Run a 7 minute mile

Run a marathon

Run a mini marathon

Run Bay to Breakers – San Fransisco, CA

Run for public office

Run the “Rocky Steps” in Philedelphia

Run with the bulls

San Fermin Festival – Pamplona, Spain

Say “I Love You” and mean it

SCUBA certified

Scuba dive a ship wreck

Scuba dive in Bonaire, Netherlands Antille.

Scuba Diving

Sear’s Tower lookout

See a baby be born

See a garden eel

See a tornado

See an old Olympic stadium

See icebergs

See Mona Lisa’s smile

See Shamu at Sea World

See the bean in Chicago

See the cherry blossoms in Japan

See the rock formations in Turkey

See the Terracotta Army

See where the Baltic Sea and North Sea don’t mix

Sell a piece of your own artwork

Sell EVERYTHING large you own and travel

Send a letter to an unknown address

Send A Message In A Bottle – in the ocean

Send a message tied to a balloon.

Send flowers to someone you care about

Set aside $30,000 for moving budget

Set foot on all 7 continents (N. America, S. America, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, Europe, Africa)

Sew a swim suit

Shake hands with the President

Shark Cage Diving

Shipwreck trip

Shoot your own Thanksgiving turkey

Shop on Black Friday

Shower in a waterfall

Sign up for a game show

Sign up for frequent flyer miles

Sing the national anthem in front of a large crowd

Sing your favorite song to an audience

skinny dip in a stone quarry

skinny dipping in a public pool

Skinny-Dipping In The Ocean

Skydiving

skydiving license

Sleep by the Christmas tree

Sleep in a converted school bus

Sleep in a tree for 2 days

Sleep in the snow

Sleep on a grain leg

Sleep on Poneto – top of a grain silo

Sleep on the beach all night

Sleep under a palm tree

Sleep under the stars

Sleigh Ride in Frisco, Colorado

Smash a pie in someone’s face

Smash grapes with your feet

Sneak into a bar or club underage

Snorkel in a cave

Snorkel in the ocean

snowball fight

Snowboard at night

Snowboard while drinking a beer

Snowboard with pants down

snowboarding or skiing

Speak at AWESOMENESS FEST

Speed art museum

Spelunking

Spend Easter in Israel

Spot the big five on an African Safari

St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin, Ireland

Stand under Hollywood sign

Stargaze in a desert

Start a social movement on a cause you believe in

Start an adventure sports company

Start and finish a workout video like P90X

Static Skydiving

Stay at the Bellagio

Stay in a capsule hotel

Stay in an ice hotel

Stay in an overwater bungalow

Stay in Igloo Village Kakslauttanen

Strip club

Surf

Surprise Ben with a vacation – paying and planning everything

Survive in nature for 2 days with nothing but a knife and a lighter

Swim in a fountain

Swim in a stone quarry

Swim in the Devil’s Pool

Swim in the largest pool, Algarrobo, Chile

Swim in the Red Sea

Swim in Victoria Falls

Swim with crocodiles

Swim with dolphins

Symphony of Lights on Star Ferry, Victoria Harbor - Austrailia

Take a bike tour through wine country.

Take a cooking class

Take a ferry somewhere

Take a flight with less than a day’s advance

Take a picture every day for a year

Take a private flight

Take a shot of Everclear

Take a train trip through the mountains

Take a week-long technology hiatus

Take an art class of some type

Take clothed pictures underwater

Take photos in a photo booth

Take the next available flight somewhere

Take treats or cards to a nursing home

Take up a new sport.

TESOL Certification

Test drive dream car

Thank all of your exes for teaching you something

The Northern Lights

Throw a boomerang

Throw a HUGE party for all your friends

Throw a tomato at La Tomatina – last Wednesday in August

Throw someone a huge surprise party

Throw the first pitch at a major league baseball game

Tie my man’s tie before he goes to work

Tie-dye something

tie-dye with real indigo

Tomorrowland – Belgium

Touch every great lake (Huron, Superior, Ontario, Michigan, Erie)

Tour a Buddhist temple

Tour Europe in the summer

Travel on Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway

Travel somewhere crazy by yourself – experience the joy of yourself

Trek on a glacier

Try a cigar

Try online dating

Try out a new profession in a different field

Try out front-line customer service jobs such being a waiter/waitress

Try sushi

Use a jet pack

Use chopsticks well

Veganism for 3 days

Vegetarian for a week

Visit a castle in England

Visit a farmer’s market

Visit a volcano

Visit all the  Wonders of the World (Machu Picchu, Pyramids)

Visit Area 51

Visit Bungle Bungles - Australia

Visit Easter Island

Visit Machu Picchu

Visit Miracle Village

Visit the Ark

Visit the Lion Museum in Lucerne

Visit the Taj Mahal

Visit the Vatican

Visit the walk of fame

Walk on the Moses bridge

Walk the Golden Gate Bridge

Walk the red carpet

Watch an autopsy

Watch fireworks

Watch my children get married

Watch the ball drop on New Year’s in NYC

Watch the Harlem Globetrotters

Watch the Naadam Games

Watch The Sun rise

Watch The Sun Set

Watch the sunset from my home roof with my family

Watch the Super Bowl live

water balloon fight

Water Skiing

Water-tube down a river

Wear a big hat at a polo competition

Wear a formal gown to dinner just for fun

Whale watching adventure

Wheelie a motorcycle

Whip up the best meal ever for a loved one (maybe by candle light) – Ben and Salmon 

Whitewater Rafting

Win $1000 In The Lottery Or Some Other Competition

Win money on a dog race

Windsurfing

Witness a solar & lunar eclipse

Work at a coffee shop

Work at McDonalds

Write a letter to at least 3 of your closest friends to let them know how much they mean to you

Write a letter to yourself and don’t open for 10 years

Write a note to your boyfriend about them being your potential husband.

Write a song

Write a will 

Write on the “before I die” wall in New Orleans

Write Your Own Book

zip line

Zip Line, Costa Rica




 

WITH FAMILY

  • Camp in your backyard with your family

  • Camp out in the family room with your family

  • Create a family

  • Get a pet for my child for a holiday

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