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I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a “Bucket List” for a while now. Well, here it is.

It’s a work in progress and I’ll be making changes over time. This idea isn’t that I’ll complete all of these in one year or even 10 years. I have the rest of my life to do these things, and now that I have them written down I have some added inspiration to get them done as I make plans for the future.

Hopefully this list will inspire others to do the same.

Events To Attend:

• Art Basel Miami
• Carnival in Brazil
• Internet Week NY
• New York Entrepreneur Week
• Planning-ness
• Social Media Week
• SXSW
• Oktoberfest in Munich
• Running of the Bulls in Pamplona
• The Olympics
• Super Bowl
• TED
• The Feast Conference
• World Cup
• These look pretty cool too: 10 Biggest Parties Around the World

Travel:

• Machu Picchu
• Great Wall of China
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Eiffel Tower
• Disneyland in Anaheim, CA- Completed 12/16/10
• Meet distant family in Italy
• Live in Japan for at least 2 months
• Live in Europe for at least 2 months
• Live in South America for at least 2 months
• Take an African safari
• Red Square in Moscow
• Scuba in the Great Barrier Reef
• Study martial arts in an Asian country
• Attend a sumo match in Japan
• Climb Mt. Fuji
• Take the Trans-Siberian Railway across Asia

Accomplish:

• Fly in a hot air balloon
• Make a parachute jump
• Go water skiing
• Go kite surfing
• Go hang gliding
• Go whitewater rafting
• Go deep sea fishing
• Get scuba certified
• Learn how to snowboard
• Learn to sail
• Play polo

• Learn Japanese (In progress)
• Learn Italian
• Learn how to write code (HTML, CSS, etc.)
• Build a website from scratch

• Get a travel article published
• Update my family tree as far back as possible

Health:

• Bench press > 300 lbs (Current max 225lbs x 5 reps)
• Squat > 400 lbs (Current max 245lbs x 5 reps)
• Deadlift > 400 lbs (Current max 225lbs x 5 reps)
• Del Mar Mud Run and 5K (Scheduled Oct. 15th, 2011)

Giving Back:

• Create a charity or non-profit supporting education
• Do volunteer work on another continent
• Participate in a Habitat for Humanity project

CREDIT: The idea for finally following through on this came from Chris Guillebeau’s “The Art of Non-Conformity” blog.

These articles have helped put things into perspective while I was building this list:

– Top Five Regrets of the Dying

– Buying Experiences, Not Possessions, Leads to Greater Happiness – Science Daily

– What Makes Us Happy? – one of my earlier blog posts