What is Your Bucket List?

[MJ DeMarco]

In reference to the movie review I posted on "The Bucket List"

http://www.thefastlanetomillions.com/showthread.php?p=29048#post29048

I pose a question to the community ...

What is your Bucket List? Basically, what things do you want to do before you kick the bucket? If you were told you have 6 months to live, what things would you be doing? Not doing?

 

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[Jorge]

I would do this (in no particular order):

-Ride a Lambo in a speedway
-Fly a plane
-Skydiving
-Write a book, no matter how short it could be in that time frame
-Visit Italy, where my family comes from
-Race Rally
-Get Married? Maybe, I can't tell for sure if that would be a good thing for her
-Make a long bike travel

The thing is, the things I would like to accomplish can't be reached on this time frame. At least not from where I'm now. Most of this things are already on my vision board

What would you do MJ?

 

[Diane Kennedy]

A lot of the things on my list are already planned for this year.

Some things I don't have on the 2008 plans:

Stay in Botswana at luxurious 5 star "safari" lodge (There is one that is considered best in the world, but can't find the name right off hand)

Be on the front cover of a big business magazine for something positive

Be part of creating a worldwide movement of "making money, making a difference" - need to make that measurable somehow

Get dive certified (that could be on the 2008 list, just haven't made time for it)

Learn how to sail

Do wine tours in S Africa, New Zealand, France and Italy. (Been to most other major wine growing areas)

Visit Oaxaca (state in S Mexico) markets. Somehow facilitate bringing the cuisine and products, especially based on the Aztec-engineered corns that are now being cultivated, into very high end restaurants in the US.

 

[Jorge]

Do wine tours in S Africa, New Zealand, France and Italy. (Been to most other major wine growing areas)

You can do wine tours here in my city, I don't see it on your list! :nono:

According to wikipedia:

Argentina is the largest wine producer in South America and the 5th largest in the world, with over 1,200 million liters (2003), and the 13th largest exporter in the world (431 million USD in 2005). Argentina probably produces the best Malbec. Ironically, in the 1980s, Argentina almost gave up on the grape through government vine pull schemes.
Due to the high altitude and low humidity of the main wine producing regions, Argentine vineyards rarely face the problems of insects, fungi, moulds and other diseases that affect grapes in other countries. This permits cultivating with little or no pesticides, allowing even organic wines to be easily produced.
The Mendoza Province produces more than 60% of the Argentine wine and is the source of an even higher percentage of the total exports (84% by value during the first trimester of 2006).

 

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[Legacy Dad]

This is funny, the last week on my blog I was posting a series on
"How to Develop Your Bucket List"

Heres mine:

Climb Everest
Go on a Grizzly Bear Hunt with my son
Write a book on my life and whatever wisdom I can pass on
Go on a Dog Sled Arctic Trek
Visit Rio during carnevale
Take my daughter on a cattle drive
Spend a week at Necker Island with my wife
Fully market and develop my parenting concepts from Legacy Dad
Start a Foundation for improving marriages, parenting, and finances.

Spend lots of time with friends and family
Read the entire Bible
Make peace with anyone I have hurt

Lance

 

[CarrieW]

I would write letters, video tape messages, get small gifts for my kids and husband for different times in their lives that my presence would be missed like sweet 16 or before they get married when they have kids ect.

write down everything I felt was imortant about life love and following where Ive left off in a journal of some sort with recommended reading lists lol, again for my family.

spend time with my family.

 

[CorsePerVita]

- Finish my book
- Trade in my toys collectively get the ONE toy I've wanted.
- Take the toy to the track. Go free. Go crazy.
- Take my girl to italy.

 

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[Jeffs07]

I want to get an ivy league education (just to prove I can)
Place in the WSOP
Go to hundreds of places (totally different list)
Get 1000000 Dollars before age 25
Write a book
Squat 500 pounds
Bench 315 pounds
Join the peace corps
Study eastern religion in Asia
Sky dive
Cliff dive
Hot air balloon


Ill add more as I think of them.

 

[PEERless]

Bank my first million by 30. Bank my 100th by 60.

 

[yveskleinsky]

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, as I've had some sudden, scary health issues with members in my family (everyone's fine now). It's sad and amazing how when the imminent force of death creeps in life gains a new meaning and a totally fresh perspective.

My bucket list, if I had 6 months left, would be to:
- Write a thank you letter to every person who had touched my life in a positive way, and to let them how and why I am a better person today for knowing them.
- Write an apology to everyone that I've ever wronged.
- Make it a point to be up at sunrise, and to enjoy the sunsets- ideally on a roof top somewhere
- Spend time in an observatory looking at stars
- Make quality, one-on-one time a priority.
- Volunteer with sick kids, ...maybe we could be a comfort for each other.
- Go to New York for a play, a baseball game and a hot dog.
- Give motivational talks about how awesome life is, and the importance of having a good attitude- no matter what.
- Finish at least one of the many books I have started.
- Take my brother on a road trip to anywhere he wanted to go and get to know him better.
- Try something new everyday.
- Praying, and actually taking the time to listen to the answer.
- Give thanks for each moment, and bask in gratitude.
- Go to Paris and gorge on bread, cheese and wine with my best friends.
- Have more dinner parties.
- Spend as much time as possible on a lake.
- Try to function (happily) off of 4 hours of sleep or less so I could soak as much as possible in.
- Go camping more- even if it is only in the backyard. (I never grew out of that.)

Things I would stop doing:
- Being scared at night (never grew out of that either).
- Eating anything that was reduced fat.
- Taking life so seriously.
- Watching TV
- Working

After everything I just went thru with my dad in the past couple of weeks, I've been working hard at making my bucket list more of a life plan starting now. Life is too short to wait to develop certain skills or to tell people how you feel. Carpe Diem.

 

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[rcardin]

Sell everything
move my family to the beach
Make sure the life insurance will pay off the mortgage on the new house
Enjoy the sound of the waves
Fish everyday
thanks God for the opportunities given to me already in life.

 

[hakrjak]

A few years ago, I had a scare -- and put together a plan for the last month... After using the first 5 months to do things like see the Sydney Opera house, or raft down the Colorado River, or take a month cruise through the Carribean.

My plan for the final month would be -- Check into the Palms casino in Vegas... Rent the nicest room at the top of the Playboy tower. Party like an absolute rockstar... Then on the final night, commit suicide by jumping off the end of the Ghost bar and trying to hit the pool 100 stories down. I'd make sure to tip off the news stations just in time, so they could get it on film.

Man, they'd never stop talking about that -- and I'd be immortalized in Vegas hipster legends until the end of time!

haha :smx8:

- Hakrjak

 

[Jorge]

Hahaahahha nice plan Hakrjak!!

 

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[Poudda]

I'd visit family.
Go see my Grandmother.
Hang out with the wife and kids.
Would have to go to New Zealand to visit family there too
Hop over to Australia and wrestle a crocodile (not really, that's cruel).
Have family in the UK too.
Have no desire to skydive or race cars or anything like that.
But would have to go to either the Daytona 500 or Sears Point Nascar race.
Maybe I'd travel to inland China and other Asian countries
Would have to check out Japan and buy some funky techno poopy stuff
I've heard Pakistan is quite the trip.
Tibet for sure since I'd be in the area.
Mabye check out Egypt, then Africa and wrestle a giraffe (not really, that's cruel)
Go on a cruise.
Start smoking again.

 

[Sid23]

Start smoking again.

LOL. Never thought of that one! rep ++

 

[AlwaysCurious]

I've been working hard at making my bucket list more of a life plan starting now. Life is to short to wait to develop certain skills or to tell people how you feel. Carpe Diem.

Very inspirational! I just copied your list and thought the same, hey, why is this a bucket list and not a lifestyle? Why wait?
Rep+

 

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[taichijedi]

The Bucket List (Not Necessarily in any Particular Order)
1.Take a yacht and cruise the Caribbean for a month.
2.Travel across Europe, and see all of the beautiful history and culture.
3.Create a trust for my nephew so his schooling was taken care of.
4.Marry my girlfriend (if she still wanted too, seeing as how I’ll be dead in six months).
5.Get a prenup. (See above.:smilielol
6.Take a trip to Japan.
7.Write an account of my life and experiences.
8.Write about my travels and their bearing on my life.
9.Organize a huge party and invite all of my closest friends, to have one last HOORAH[FONT=&quot]‼[/FONT] (They wouldn’t know I was dying, it would just be some random party goodness).
10.Get my affairs in order. I don’t want people getting bogged down in details after my passing.
11.I don’t want a wake, I want a party. I want people to remember the tenacity I had and how vigorously I enjoyed life. My friends’ and family’s greatest tribute to me would not be their sorrow, but rather infusing some of my own passion into their own lives to do what they believe, and look outside of conventional means and methods.

 

[Bilgefisher]

1. Visit the Smithsonian for 1-2 weeks.
2. Travel Europe back country and little towns (I have no interest in cities)
3. Skydive
4. Take a train trip across America. (I think my vision board is going to get an update )
5. Take my dad on a boundary waters canoe trip.
6. Set my family up for a comfortable retirement.

 

[Redshft]

Things to do:
cage dive with a Great White
sky dive
drive a car 250mph
snowboard in the Alps
go for a motorcycle ride in the Alps
spend a vacation on every continent
drive a Ferrari on Ferrari's test track
drive a BMW for a sub 8 minute run on the Nurburgring
do the Gumball run
buy my father a Harley Davidson
buy my mother a car
buy my parents a boat
become a multi-millionaire

Things I've done:
scuba dived in the Bahamas
went on a shark dive
drove on the Autobahn
vacationed in Europe
vacatoined in North America :smxF:

 

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[TaxGuy]

Ahh Matt such similar goals and aspirations, then again, a mid 20's male car nut, sounds like most of the people on here

Anyways, this is completely off the top of my head and subject to change:

-start a business, preferably in the "B" quadrant
-play some level of professional baseball
-run a marathon on every continent(including Antarctica)
-run a marathon in every state
-visit every major city of the world(>1m population or famous capitals such as Dublin, Brussels, etc)
-take a train ride/road trip through all major continents
-go skydiving
-go base-jumping
-sail the Mediterranean
-scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
-drive a Ducati on a test track in Italy
-drive a Ferrari at the Maranello test track
-drive a Lambo at the test track in Sant'agata Bolognese
-drive a Porsche at the Nurburgring
-walk or bike across the US from East Coast of Maine to San Diego
-influence both middle class Americans and underprivileged children in developing countries
-leave a legacy

more to come

what I've done so far...
-competed in an international acting/modeling competition in NYC
-hit a walk-off grand-slam
-pitched a 1-hit shutout
-3 week student tour of Europe
-study abroad in Vienna with a 2 week/12 city self-guided/planned tour of Western Europe(which included stops at the Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes and BMW museums :smxB
-jumped off a 50ft+ bridge into the Donau River in Vienna(have video to prove it)
-drove a motorcycle on the Autobahn... the Austrian and oh yea, I hit 200... kph
-completed several long US roadtrips, including a 2 week, 6200 mile trip from Chicago to California, visiting several major cities in the process and driving the breath-taking US-1 from LA to SF
-found my soul-mate
-been blessed with great friends(including a handful that I refer to as my "brothers") and a loving supportive family
-ran a marathon
-ran a business
-own a house