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 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
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
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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