A bucket list. I’m sure you’re familiar with it. A list of all the numbered experiences you hope to have before you die. To be honest, I’ve never really owned a bucket list. Yes, I may have had a vague ‘list’ at the back of my head of the goals I wanted to meet, but that was just thrown away, abandoned, ignored. A bucket list is treated in the same way, because we all lack that spur to fulfil more in life.
The solution: an impossible list
When I first came across this inspiring list, it reminded me of ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ book by Tim Ferriss, which displays a similar idea. It emphasises that we shouldn’t settle for the old concept of a boring life, but rather implement the lifestyle of our dreams.
Put simply, the impossible list is an ever-growing list of experiences that implore you to take action (thanks to Thomas Frank for that perfect way of putting it). After crossing off a completed goal, you take that leap to expand the goal and track your progress along the way.
Here’s mine and I have yet to see how this list will shape my life and evolve itself.
Fitness/health goals
- Go vegan for 30 days
- Take part in a cycling race
- Swim 25m (April 2017)
- Swim 30m
Professional/creative goals
- Create an online course
- Give a TED talk
- Get 1,000 blog visits in a month
- Start a podcast
- Volunteer for more than a week (June 4, 2019)
- Volunteer for a month
- Start a website (You’re looking at it right now!)
- Write 10 blog posts (November 15, 2020)
- Be able to play 5 songs on the ukulele
Skill goals
- Become fluent in Spanish
- Read 100 books a year
- Improve public speaking (June 25, 2023)
- Complete learning HTML (June 21, 2020)
- Learn archery (September 28, 2024)
- Learn rock climbing
- Learn horse riding (June 18, 2023)
Travel goals
- Visit Spain
- Visit Singapore
- Visit the Grand Canyon
- Visit 6 other countries for more than a week each
- Backpack solo
Interesting goals
- Bungee jump
- Go skydiving
- Go cruising
- Go jet skiing (August 27, 2023)
- Take a Quokka selfie
- Support a charity (January 5, 2021)
- Start a charity