Living without a vision is a waste of time (or at least it's more boring than having exciting stuff to do).
If you don’t get up every morning pumped up with energy to make your day the most amazing one, you don’t have an exciting life goals list.
This post is a result of an inspiring chat I had with Helene Schmit in Hubud, a co-working space in Ubud, a little jungle town in Bali, Indonesia.
Before I met Helene, I was familiar with the “bucket list” or “list of things I want to do before I die” concept but never took the time to sit and write down my life goals.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build. – Robert Collier
Helene shared her own list and suggested me to check Tal Gur’s life goals list that sparked my curiosity to find out what I truly want to achieve in life. Forming this list took me a couple of days of thinking, brainstorming and rewriting until I could finally call it my “100 things I want to do before I die” list.
Financial
- Build a multi-million dollar business empire
- Set up a passive income machine online generating $1 million a year
- Charge $10,000/h for consulting
- Build a startup valued at $1 billion
- Build an ocean side dream house
- Buy a Harley Davidson
- Buy a Lamborghini
- Buy an island
- Own a penthouse in New York City
- Help 100 entrepreneurs through Kiva
Travel
- Visit every country in the world
- Arrive at an airport and take a random flight
- Trek the Pacific Crest Trail
- Stand on the equator
- Fly into space
- Trek to the Everest Base Camp
- Sail around Australia
- Ride a motorcycle across Europe
- Drive from New York to Los Angeles
- Cross Africa North to South on a motorcycle
- Travel to Antarctica
Experiences
- Fly a fighter jet
- Drive a tank
- Become a sailboat captain
- Skydive in Dubai
- Book a dive to the Titanic
- Bungee jump off a bridge
- Do the bull run in Pamplona
- Dive the great barrier reef
- Take a cooking course
- Attend a Japanese tea ceremony
- See the rocket launch
- See the Northern Lights
Self-Development
- Attend one of Anthony Robbins' events
- Attend a 21-day Vipassana meditation course âś… Did 10-day Vipassana course (Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2015)
- Be a vegetarian for a month
- Don't use the Internet for a month
- Become fluent in Spanish
- Read 1,000 life-changing books
- Don’t drink alcohol for a yearDid 90 days without alcohol (Thailand, 2017)
- Keep a daily gratitude journal
- Attend speed-reading training
- Take advanced English training
Legacy
- Get married to the love of my life
- Speak at TED
- Speak at a college commencement
- Break a Guinness world record
- Build a community of like-minded people
- Buy a round-the-world air ticket and give it to my parents
- Build my parents a dream home
- Build a school for young entrepreneurs in Lithuania
- Turn business into a franchise
- Make history
Creative
- Write an NYT bestselling bookCo-authored the Mobile Design Book with Paula Borowska (Budapest, Hungary 2014)
- Design an award winning app
- Direct and film a movie
- Design a high-performance workout and diet plan
- Compose and release a music album
- âś… Start an international podcast (The Despreneur Podcast, Life in White Noise)
- Create a vlog
- Grow my blog to 1 million monthly readers Currently 34,000/month
- Interview 100 influential people
- Organize a conference for creative entrepreneurs
Entertainment
- ✅ Attend Coldplay’s concert (Berlin, Germany on 13 July, 2022)
- Attend the FIFA world cup
- Attend the Monaco Grand Prix
- Attend the Olympic Games
- Attend the Oscars
- Attend World Domination Summit
- Attend NBA finals game
- Attend Burning Man
- Attend carnival in Rio
- Attend Oktoberfest in Germany
Physical
- Learn to dance salsa
- Complete a marathonHalf-marathon (Vilnius, Lithuania, 2014 & 2015)
- Be blind for a day
- Run Tough Mudder
- Complete 90 Days of P90X
- Complete the 100 push-up challengeDid 71 maximum (London, UK, 2014)
- Compete in a triathlon
- Fast for 48 hours (Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2017)
- Attend 1 month Chinese culture and Kung Fu retreat
- Learn to surf
Philanthropy
- Donate $1 million to charity
- Change 1 million people lives for the better
- Set up a non-profit
- Build a school
- Open up donation based gym
- Volunteer for a month
- Adopt 5 children
- Rescue a dog
- Start a leadership club
- Organize annual charity fundraiser
For Fun
- âś… Get a tattoo (Vilnius, Lithuania, 2016, Medellin, Colombia, 2021)
- âś… Dye my hair
- Host a karaoke party
- Buy everyone a drink in a bar
- Buy 100 cakes and visit homeless kids
- Teach a foreigner talk Lithuanian language for a month
- Switch my life with someone for 24 hours
- Dress up as a Santa Claus and give 100 gifts in the hospital
- Wear only a tuxedo for a week
- Wish someone happy birthday on the radio
What’s on Your List?
Make time to sit down and think about 100 things to do before you die.
If you have your bucket list already, please share it on your blog and link to this article to inspire people around you.
Your time here is limited. Don’t waste a second of it.
