Adrenaline Rushes
- Swim with dolphins
- Go for a Hot Air Balloon ride
- Join a flash mob!
- Try Zorbing
- Ride a camel in the desert
- Ride a horse like a cowboy
- Go to the races. Put £50 on a longshot. To WIN.
- Participate in a police line-up!
- Gather a bunch of people to have a giant food fight
- Have a go on a mechanical bull
- Fly in a helicopter
- Experience weightlessness
- Go Quad-biking
- Race an incredible car on a race track
- Take a stunt-driving course
- Go to a shooting range and do some target practice
- Do a skydive
- Ride on all the rollercoasters at an awesome theme park
- Go Indoor Skydiving
Creative Goals
- Shoot and edit a short movie
- Make something in a pottery class
- Learn how to make chicken soup like my mothers
- Learn to play guitar to some degree of skill
- Send a handwritten letter to a friend
- Make a Lemon Pavlova from scratch
- Write a short story & let someone read it
- Digitise my collection of favourite quotations that I have collected over the years
Go to drumming classes- Master HTML & CSS
- Design and code a website from scratch
Events to Attend
- Attend the Olympics
- Witness a solar eclipse
- Attend TED
- See Les Miserables at the West End
- Attend the Cannes film festival
- Go to a Take That gig
- Watch a Rodeo
- Attend SXSW
- That time *that amazing band* is headlining *that awesome festival*? Book tickets immediately, screw the cost.
- See Radiohead live
- Organise an amazing hen night/weekend for a best friend
- Go see one of those Red Bull daredevil events
- Go to a film premiere
Fitness Goals
- Play basketball once a week
- Run a Half Marathon
- Go Paleo for 3 months
- Go to dance lessons on a regular basis
Life Goals
- Own a dog (preferably a wolf/dog hybrid!)
- Learn conversational Brazilian Portuguese
- Find out about my genetic history
- Take singing lessons
- Get a Masters degree
- Get a tattoo
- Own shares in something
- Live in different countries for an extended period of time
- Become location-independent
- Donate money and put my name to something, even if it is just a park bench
- Be an extra in a TV show/movie
- Send a message in a bottle
- Sit on a jury
- Volunteer at a homeless shelter
- Buy a DSLR
- Sleep in a castle
- Go to that restaurant where you eat in the dark
- Have a professional massage
- Fly first class
- Host a rad barbeque in the park in summer
- Stay in the best suite in an expensive hotel
- Take a kid to feed the ducks in Regents Park
- Purchase a pair of amazing Louboutins
- Dye my hair an awesome colour
Minimalism Goals
- Take my unwanted books and clothes to a charity shop
- Sell some unwanted things at a car boot sale
- Own less than 250 things (for a first pass)
- Own less than 150 things
Professional Goals
- Become top of my field
- Work on an incredible idea from inception & help it grow into a fantastic product
- Be my own boss
- Read all the books on a Best Books list
- Have £50,000 in the bank
- Go to hack events – Charity Hack 2011
- Give a presentation in front of a small group of people
- Give a presentation in front of a sizeable number of people
- Give a presentation in front of a massive number of people
- Have an article published in a blog
- Have an article published in a magazine//newspaper
- Contribute to a published book
- Write a book and get it published!
- Mentor someone
- Produce an event for people in my professional field
Travel Goals
- Visit Cuba
- Go on Safari in Africa
- Visit Bruges
- Rent a car and road trip somewhere in the US (for longer than a week)
- Drive across Europe
- Watch and photograph the Iditarod in Alaska
- Get my surf on in Hawaii
- Spend a while in Brazil – Carnaval, Amazon
- Visit the Grand Canyon
- Photograph couples under the Eiffel Tower
- See the Pyramids in Egypt
- Stayed at least overnight in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
- Visit Australia
- Chill out in Amsterdam
- Visit Mongolia
- Visit all 50 states of America + DC – ALABAMA, ALASKA, ARIZONA, ARKANSAS, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, 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
- Visit the Great Wall of China
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Do the Lord of the Rings trail in New Zealand
- Visit the Fjords in Norway
- Go to the Kennedy Space Center
- Visit The Vatican
- See The Northern Lights
- Go win/lose some money in Las Vegas
- Spend some time in the American South
- Visit Stonehenge
- Go on a gondola in Venice
- Take a 2 week holiday to a Caribbean Island
- Island hop in Greece
Go camping under the stars- Visit Nepal and Tibet
- Visit 3 different African countries
- Visit every country in South America – ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, BRASIL, CHILE, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, GUYANA, PARAGUAY, PERU, SURINAME, URUGUAY, VENEZUALA
- Visit 10 different islands
- Visit and photograph and real, genuine Ghost Town
Wow! This list is quite similar to my own-we even share some similar interests (but I guess that’s inevitable on a Life List to some extent)… I started my Bucket List after losing my 2 Dads 9 months apart. Something just clicked and I knew that my life was an opportunity and not a dress rehearsal! So far in the past year since I started my blog I have:
Sky-Dived
Been Harness Zorbing
Wing-Walked
Bungee Jumped
Went to Thailand
Rode and Elephant
Experienced Weightlessness
Held a Monkey
Done a Bungee Catapult
Taken my kids to Disney
Taken an aerobatic flying lesson in a Stunt Plane
Zip-Lined from the top of a mountain
Flown through the Grand Canyon in a Helicopter
Camped in a Teepee on Grand Canyon Ranch
Learned to fly a Helicopter
Went to Las Vegas
Rode all the rides at the top of the Starosphere
Went Caving in a Sea Canoe
Visited the Giant Buddha in Phuket, Thailand
hiked though The Valley of Fire
Toured The Hoover Dam
Went on my first Camping Music Festival
It’s been a busy year!
My full list is here: http://emmasbucketlist.com/thelist
Looking forward to following your adventures! I have booked for my whole family (me, Partner and the kids) to go Indoor Sky-Diving, I’m doing Hydro-Zorbing with one of my best friends, and a bunch of my girl friends and I are doing a Segway Rally soon too (my Christmas gift to them), I’ve also booked to go Wacky Racing (think Wackt Races Cartoon style).
Nice to ‘meet’ a fellow ‘lister’!
Emma
I think I mentioned on Twitter, but your list of achievements are just mindblowing!! Seriously awesome stuff! Also, the fact that you have a family makes it more impressive – I’ve really found that sometimes having kids and family commitments really stops people from trying to achieve new things – so again, massive kudos for that! Are you doing your indoor skydiving at AirKix? I’ve been there to do it and its just massive fun!
I “reviewed” it here if interested – http://bit.ly/AAj2BS
Anyway, great to meet you too – its been lovely reading all your comments and can’t wait to hear about many more awesome things!!
Well, I agree. Too many people lose sight of who they are when motherhood comes along, something that is understandable in the first year, in fairness… That said, I do think it’s possible to still have excitement in your life-it just takes more planning… My mum lives in a foreign country, and my Dads are both gone, so you don’t even need to have parents on hand and I’ve proven that.
In fact, I have made it my mission to inspire my children to start making their own lives happen, and to ingrain the enthusiasm for *LIVING* in them too. My 12 year old just came back from his first school ski trip, and for Christmas I got him a junior Ferrari track day, my 9 year old is just about to have a roller-disco party with 40 of his friends (which he really wanted for his birthday), he is also started fencing lessons, kayaking tuition and rock climbing lessons with his school and he got a go-karting track experience for Christmas for him and a friend, and my 4 year old recently had her first flying lesson in a real plane from her Daddy and tomorrow we’re taking her to Disney on Ice and then we’re taking her to ‘My First Sleeping Beauty’ a ballet for children as she’s taking ballet lessons.
I also booked us ALL a family ticket to AirKix which was the place you reviewed in Milton Keynes because the kids came to watch me sky-dive with my partner (who had done it before in Oz)… Afterwards, the kids all wanted to do a sky-dive too-this was the only thing they could do legally, and the video’s I’ve seen of 4 year olds doing it are hilarious! I cannot wait to watch them!
I think it’s one of my ambitions to raise my children with an attitude that anything is possible if you put your mind to it… I have told my oldest now that if he wants to do stuff, he needs to do the research, find the inspiration, do the homework on how and then ask for help if he needs it (after he recently complained about his younger brothers easy access to activities at his school). I told him-life doesn’t get handed to you on a plate when you’re older-you have to help yourself. Find what you want, and make it happen, it’s a good habit to form. The way I see it, he has a computer and internet access, and he’s just as capable as me of inspiration and research! I will help with the purse strings of course (if it’s realistically obtainable within our means)… Anyone who uses motherhood as an excuse not to live is not only robbing themselves, but also failing to inspire their children in my opinion