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Permalink Reply by Chris Arias on June 11, 2009 at 10:39pm

Posted to my journal

Permalink Reply by oracle989 on June 12, 2009 at 12:00am

Learn a foreign language
Live for 6 months in a foreign country
Save a life
Marry for life
Raise a son
Skydive
Hike the Appalachian Trail
Live off of the land for two months
Change a community for the better
Restore a '67 Camaro

I'll be doing option 1 first, I think.

Permalink Reply by Chris Partida on June 12, 2009 at 1:14am

1. Travel to every continent.
2. Live in 3 different places for at least 2 years each.
3. Restore a vintage motorcycle.
4. Do something worthy of an IMDB.com bio page (yeah, what?).
5. Learn Español fluently.
6. Get myself a loving wife & happy family.
7. Learn to scuba dive.
8. Get out of debt and live within my means.
9. Hike to the top of Half Dome from Glacier Point.
10. Ride my mountain bike in Whistler.

I know there are plenty more, I could list lots. I'll definitely keep a list in my journal.

Permalink Reply by Sean Cox on June 12, 2009 at 4:49am

If you need help with number 10 let me know, I live in Vancouver and I head up to Whistler a lot, it's a great place to ride.

Permalink Reply by Chris Partida on June 12, 2009 at 4:14pm

Thank you Sean! That's awesome news, I might just be lucky enough to call on your offer someday. I've seen so many videos, it's gotta be the best place to ride in North America.

Permalink Reply by Matthew Lawrence on June 12, 2009 at 3:17am

After giving it much though I have created the following list.

1. Go to California
2. Own a sailboat
3. Own a 1994 Ford Crown Victoria
4. Own the following guns: Colt Anaconda, Kar98k, S&W 686
5. Try Kopi Luak
6. Spend a night in jail
7. Get married, have 2 children
8. Get up to 185 ibs
9. Learn to swim
10. Learn to surf
11. Become economically self sufficient

Bearing in mind, I am from the U.K. This was a hard list to come up with as I tried to limit to about 10 or so things. Everything else I want to do asap :)

Permalink Reply by Chris Hutcheson on June 12, 2009 at 3:28am

My list is constantly evolving, and usually contains well over ten goals. Here's where I'm at currently. X's mark goals that have been accomplished.

Get paid for something I wrote - X
Go to a New Zealand All Blacks rugby match - X
Read more than I watch television - X
Have a grand adventure - X
Live in a foreign country - X
Travel to Scotland - X
Travel back to Scotland - X
Trace my family history - X
Brush up my bullwhip skills - X
Have my own library - X
Travel around the world - X
Own a boat - X
Travel across Great Britain - X
Travel to Brazil - X
Go to grad school in the UK - X
Be a forest ranger - X
Travel by rail across europe - X
Read all of Hemingway's works - X
Own horses
Hunt a Cape Buffalo
See the northern lights
Travel to alaska
Go blackwater rafting
Surf in the south pacific
Go marlin fishing
Find a career i love
Get my SCUBA certification
Participate in an archaeological dig
Become fluent in another language
Build a treehouse
Climb Mount Kilimanjaro - IN PROGRESS
Get the tattoo I designed
Own a dog
Get a masters degree - IN PROGRESS
Write a book
Rread all of Peter Hathaway Capstick's works - IN PROGRESS
Go on a photo safari - IN PROGRESS
See elephants in the wild - IN PROGRESS
Ride an elephant
Step foot on all seven continents
Get a pilot's license
Smoke a cuban cigar...in Havana
Read all of Tolkien's Legendarium - IN PROGRESS

Permalink Reply by Michael Luevane on June 12, 2009 at 6:14am

1. Write, perform, and record my own album (doesn't have to be under any label)
2. Own a house for my family
3. Tour Europe on a EuroRail pass
4. Visit Iceland
5. Learn to program for the iPhone
6. Write, produce, and direct a movie
7. Write a book
8. Get my tattoo finished (long story) and get the other two tattoos that I want
9. Build a wearable computer
10. Get a Master's degree

Hm. I think I better get started...

Permalink Reply by Charlie on the PA Turnpike on June 12, 2009 at 7:09am

I don't get this concept. I looked over your post when it originally came out in May, and couldn't work out a list then, and still can not today.

As a kid I was taken with computers, probably mostly due to my older brother being so good with them. Now I am in my 40s, with an IT career; near as I can tell, I achieved that goal.

I am a dad of 2 boys (13 & 6); raising them to be better than I am is a goal (I'll get back to you in about dozen years and let you know the results). Keeping my much-better-half as happy as I can do is another goal.

Beyond that, I have no other aspirations. I look at these other examples of 'Bucket' worthy items, and am not inspired by them; they are fine goals, indeed, but they don't move me.

Maybe I have an item for my list and don't know it:

1) Work to keeping much-better-half happy as I can
2) Raise 2 boys to be better than I am
3) find something that moves me.

Permalink Reply by The Plainsman on June 12, 2009 at 9:01am

I had written this down when the original post was made:
-Summit all Colorado 14ers (54 14,000ft+ mountains)
-Circumnavigate Colorado by bicycle
-Head back to school for a higher degree (masters, JD, maybe both)
-Visit all 50 US States and all Canadian Povinces
-Write a book
-Live by a North Idaho lake
-Become a good father (1st baby due Nov. 2)
-Become a good grandfather
-Visit the Orient: ski in Japan, hike around China
-Travel by foot across England and Hungary
-Become a true early riser
-Eat pure foods
-Master the art of baking
-Backpack the entire Colorado Trail
-Run for political office
-Spend time in every continent
-Obtain private or LSA pilots license

There is a alo on my list, including some I am working on now. Too much may be hampering, but that notion I say: "Why not?"

Permalink Reply by Brett McKay on June 12, 2009 at 10:14am

1. Live in Vermont- IN PROGRESS
2. Fly fish
3. Go on a horse pack trip in the Rockies
4. Kill a deer
5. Kill a bull moose
6. Ride a bull moose
7. Kill a Grizzly bear
8. Learn to change oil on a car
9. Write another book
10. Learn to identify plants
11. Get paid to speak
12. Learn how to shave with a straight razor
13. Kill my own turkey, cook it, and carve it
14. Go to Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
15. Visit the Black Forrest in Germany
16. Visit Greece
17. Snow board
18. Snow ski
19. Snow shoe
20. Build my own piece of furniture
21. Milk a cow
22. Own a gun
23. Coach high school football
24. Appear on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
25. Have a big family Christmas in Vermont
26. Knit a sweater for myself
27. Learn Java
28. Learn basic photography skills
29. Own a green 1971 Ford F-100 Pickup


I'm sure I'll be adding to the list.

Permalink Reply by Chris Partida on June 12, 2009 at 4:17pm

Ok, good, we aren't limited to just 10. I've got plenty more, they're in my journal.

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