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"Every human being dies — Not every man really lives." — William Ross

"The just people who fear death are those with regrets." — Author Unknown

A few days ago, I was surfing online when I came across someone'due south bucket list. It inspired me to create my own bucket list and write a post about it at the same time.

What'southward a Bucket List?

If yous have never heard of the term "bucket listing", it is a list of all the goals you want to achieve, dreams you want to fulfill, and life experiences you wish to feel before y'all dice.

Why Create a Bucket List?

If you don't live your days by goals and plans, chances are that you spend most of your fourth dimension caught in a flurry of day-to-solar day activities. Ever felt that your days are passing yous past without whatever tangible output? What did yous accomplish in the past month? What are your goals for the next three months? Look at the things that you have been doing and the things that y'all're planning to practice next — do they mean anything to you if yous are to die today? Having a bucket listing reminds you of what's really important to you lot so that you tin act on them.

Fifty-fifty if you alive by goals or to-practise lists, they are probably framed within a social context, eastward.g. functioning, career, health. A bucket list opens up the context for your life. Information technology's a listing to identify everything y'all've ever wanted to exercise, whether information technology's big or small, purposeful or random.

It's just like planning all the highlights for YOUR life. :D Even though I already fix goals by default, I still establish many new things to practice while writing on my own list. Information technology was an incredibly insightful practise. What's more, coming up with my list gave me new-establish enthusiasm knowing what I accept planned alee for my life!

The objective of creating this listing isn't to create some fear-based mentality toward death. I don't see our existence to be express to our concrete years on Earth — our physical lifespan is merely a brusque speck of our beingness in the universe. The whole bespeak of creating a bucket list is to maximize every moment of our being and live our life to the fullest. Information technology's a reminder of all the things we want to attain in our time on Globe so that instead of spending our time on pointless things, we direct information technology toward things that matter to us.

Create Your Bucket Listing

If you don't have a bucket list, I highly recommend you to create one. How much will information technology toll? Cipher. How long will it have? Probably thirty minutes to an hour; more if yous get really caught up in writing it. :) What do y'all stand to gain? Significant clarity in what y'all want from life. It'due south an invaluable commutation. :)

If you already have a bucket list, have this opportunity to review it. See if there are new items yous desire to add together on. If so, add them in. Cheque if all the items listed are nevertheless relevant. If not, remove them.

At present, take out your pen and paper or open up a text document. Kickoff writing downward what comes to heed as you read these questions:

What if you were to die tomorrow? What would you wish you could do before yous die?
What would y'all do if you had unlimited time, coin and resource?
What have you always wanted to do simply have not done even so?
Whatsoever countries, places or locations you lot desire to visit?
What are your biggest goals and dreams?
What do you want to meet in person?
What achievements exercise you want to have?
What experiences do y'all want to have/experience?
Whatever special moments you want to witness?
What activities or skills do you want to larn or try out?
What are the virtually important things y'all can always do?
What would you similar to say/do together with other people? People you love? Family? Friends?
Whatever specific individuals (celebrities, famous people, world leaders) yous want to come across in person?
What do you want to achieve in the different areas of your life: Social, Love, Family unit, Career, Finance, Health (your weight, fitness level), Spiritual?
What do you demand to exercise to live a life of greatest meaning as defined by you?

Come up up with equally many items every bit yous can. The items should be things you take not done however. Don't terminate until you have at least 101 things! If you notice yourself stuck, chances are you are mentally limiting yourself. Release those shackles — your bucket list is meant to be a list of everything you desire to achieve, do, see, experience and experience in your life. Check out the adjacent section for added inspiration.

101 Things To Practice Before You Die

Here are 101 items to consider for your saucepan list. :) Await through the listing — is in that location anything that resonates with you? Note that the listing below is a sample list of things you can put for your ain list. Not all of them will work for you, and you shouldn't do them for the sake of it. Take the items that resonate with you and use them for your ain list! For your convenience, I've included useful resources (hand-picked past me) to aid yous in your bucket list quest.

i. Travel all around the earth

Traveling — information technology'due south the single best activity that exposes you to new cultures, broaden your mind, move out of your condolement zone, let you to run into new people, and feel the wonders of the world.

I'one thousand a strong advocate of traveling and take in fact traveled widely around the globe in the past years. In 2011, I went on a 7-month non-stop trip around Europe and U.South. where I met PE readers from around the world and held PE readers meetup in London, London again, New York, and Los Angeles. I've subsequently been to Kuala Lumpur, India, Due south Africa, Hong Kong, Scotland, and Hong Kong where I held PE reader meetups in all of them (except India).

All in all, I've spent well-nigh l% of my time between 2011 to 2013 traveling! I look forrard to visiting new places such as South America, Canada, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand moving forward.

How almost you? What new countries would you similar to visit? Hither are some traveling resources:

Travel recommendations:
- List of Countries in the World (Alphabetical Order)
- Lonely Planet's Best in Travel
- Wonders of the Earth
- chiliad Places to See Earlier You Die
- Insights on Holland — View from an Outsider's Perspective (Series) — If y'all're planning to visit Holland, here'due south my vii-part serial from when I visited the country in 2011
Adaptation:
- Hostel World — Depression-budget accommodation
- Air BnB
- Couch Surfing — Costless accommodation for travelers
Visa Requirements: Visa Requirements past Nationality
Packing: Ultimate Packing List

ii. Larn a new language

Learning a new language is never easy but it's then satisfying when you are able to converse with someone in a foreign linguistic communication! I admire people who are multi-lingual — I'1000 personally fluent in but English and Mandarin while having functional knowledge of Hokkien, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. I hope to learn a few foreign languages — Spanish being one of them — in the hereafter.

Some language resource:

List of Languages in the World
12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Tape Time
How to Learn Any Language — Website
Verbling | italki — Language exchange site

3. Try a profession in a different field

What profession are you in now and how long have y'all been doing this? Is it time for a change in profession? It's nice to do something different from what y'all have been doing, and it doesn't have to involve quitting your electric current job — you can always experiment with volunteer work in a field you enjoy or kickoff up a office-time business on the side. It's all near expanding your horizon and trying something new.

iv. Achieve your platonic weight

I used to be a severe rampage eater (a story which I've shared in My Journey with Emotional Eating series) and making the commitment to overcome my emotional eating, live healthily, and lose my excess weight has been i of the unmarried best decisions I've made in my life.

Make the commitment to exist salubrious. What is your ideal weight? Are yous at your ideal weight today? What can you lot do to get-go being good for you? Some weight loss resources:

10 Reasons Yous Are Non Losing Weight (and What To Practise Virtually Them)
How To End Emotional Eating (6-part serial)
How To Lose 25kg in Only 8 Months [Video]
How to Develop a Positive Torso Image (4-part serial)

5. Run a marathon

A marathon is a long-distance race of 42.two km (26.ii miles) long — definitely non an easy feat that requires training and hard work! Training and completing a marathon will not just develop you in your physical strength and endurance, just likewise your mental persistence, volition, and attitude. Read:

26 Tips for Running Your Best 262
How to Run Your First Marathon

6. Take part in a triathlon

A triathlon is a "multiple-phase competition involving the completion of 3 continuous and sequential endurance disciplines." Modern-mean solar day triathlons are swim/bicycle/run events that are done in that order. If you recall that a marathon is tough, wait till you try a triathlon — the ironman triathlon consists of 3.86 km (ii.iv mi) swim, a 180.25 km (112-mi) wheel ride and a 42.2 km (26.two-mi) run (that's a marathon-length race!), raced in that order and without a interruption!

But don't run in the opposite management just yet — in that location are many triathlons of varying distances that are completely manageable. For example, a sprint triathlon is 750 g / (0.47 mi) / twenty km (12.iv mi) / v km while an Olympic triathlon is i.5 km (0.93 mi) / 40 km (24.8 mi) / ten km (6.2 mi). One of my readers decided to train for a triathlon as a personal milestone — despite never having done a marathon in her life! She eventually completed the triathlon after a year of training, and was and then proud of herself!

Prepare to take upwards the triathlon claiming? :) Read:

How Do I Train For My Kickoff Triathlon?
The Ultimate Beginners Guide To Triathlons
Triathlon Training for Beginners — a training resource website
TriFind — Triathlon calendar for America

7. Have upwards a new sport

Sports are a peachy way to keep fit! Whether you're an indoor or outdoor person, there is a sport for anybody. Hither are some sports to endeavor out:

Technique sports: Archery, Golf, Bowling, Billiard, Skateboarding, Skating, Roller-blading, Water ice skating
Racket sports: Squash, Badminton, Tennis, Tabular array lawn tennis
Water sports: Water rafting, Kayaking, Wakeboarding, Sailing, Swimming, Scuba diving, Snorkeling
Group sports: Soccer, Rugby, Baseball game, Basketball, Ultimate frisbee

eight. Get scuba diving / snorkeling and feel marine life upwardly close

As humans, we spend all of our lives on land. Nonetheless there is a whole globe under the bounding main that we're not privy to! Practise you know that 71% of the World's surface is actually the ocean? And do you lot know that because of the ocean'southward depth, it contains about 300 times the habitable volume of the terrestrial habitats on Earth — and many ocean species are nevertheless to be discovered?

With scuba diving and snorkeling, yous have the opportunity to become up close and personal with the marine life — and run across, feel, and experience the vast ocean in person. Scuba diving is one of my bucket list items!

Read:

Marine biology [Wiki]
Snorkeling.info — Complete resource for snorkeling
25 Best Places To Go Scuba Diving
Scuba Diving — Complete resource for scuba diving
10 Top Spots to Snorkel

9. Go skiing

In that location'south something about being able to glide on snow while controlling your motor movements that only makes skiing such a fun sport. It's by no means like shooting fish in a barrel or safe — one should have lessons before attempting to ski lone — merely information technology's worth trying out, especially for people who don't alive in winter countries. I personally haven't skied before and would love to requite it a shot adjacent time. Read:

Beginner Ski Lesson [Video]
Ski resorts by state
Ski resource — including recommended ski equipment, ski habiliment, and accessories

10. Expedition the Inca Trail

The Inca Trail is the nigh famous expedition in Due south America and is rated by many to be in the acme 5 treks in the world. It starts from Chillca and follows a road to Machu Picchu, The Lost City of the Incas. Read:

Inca Trail — Comprehensive site dedicated to the Inca Trail
Inca Trail [Wiki] — When to go, what train to have, and what to set up
Inca Trail Esssentials [Lonely Planet]

11. Go horseback riding

Horseback riding in Chennai, Republic of india, completing an item from my saucepan listing! ;)

Since as early as 4000-3500 BCE, horses take been domesticated and living alongside men. While horses used to be kept as meat animals, and afterward as working animals to transport materials and people, today, horse riding has transformed into both a hobby and a competitive sport. Horseback riding in itself can be a proficient sport to relax and unwind from the busy life. Unlike typical sports where you are alone or with other people, in horseback riding, yous work together with an animate being — the equus caballus — and frequently times build an emotional bond with it, sometimes one even stronger, more unspeakable, than what you have with fellow peers.

12. Do an extreme sport

I don't consider myself an extreme sports person, but I like to experiment in life. When I was in Cape Town in Apr 2013, my host and reader Lizette invited me to become paragliding equally she has friends who are licensed tandem paragliding pilots. I took up the offering, and went paragliding not one time, but twice!!!

Me paragliding in Cape Town on April 18, 2013. Bank check out THAT view!!! We were literally floating in the air for a skilful minute or two. One of the Almost surreal moments in my life!!

The experience was immense and ane that I'll never forget. I do recommend anybody to try at least ane farthermost sport in our lifetimes! (Of course, make sure *all* safety precautions are in place and you are with professional person and licensed instructors.) While the experience may only last a couple of minutes, those few minutes will be some of the most memorable ones in your life.

More on my paragliding experience here: My Paragliding Experience in Greatcoat Boondocks

Become started:

xx unmissable extreme sports (and where to try them)
Bungee jumping: Meridian ten bungee jumps in the world
Paragliding: Tiptop paragliding sites in the world
Skydiving: World'due south best places to skydive and bungee jump

13. Climb a mountain

Why take a chance your life to climb a mountain when the journey is fraught with rocky terrains and with always-changing conditions conditions? For some, mountain climbing is an external conquest; some find enjoyment in the sport; others see information technology as a footstep in their personal growth journey. Whatever it is, mountain climbing is a feat that takes physical endurance and mental tenacity to accomplish, and is definitely a bucket list worthy item. I haven't climbed a mountain yet but I programme to practise that sometime in the future!

"Why I Climb" — an commodity past a climber who has climbed over 300,000 vertical feet, 90,000 on Everest expeditions alone
Climbing destinations effectually the world
Top 10 climbs around the earth

fourteen. Larn a strategy game

Strategy games like chess, checkers, chinese chess, Reversi (also known as Otello), Mindsweeper (office of Windows bundle) are smashing ways to train your mind. As a kid, my brother and I played chinese chess together very often; I also enjoy playing mind sports like chess and Reversi a lot and would practice and then with my friends and against the reckoner). I don't know if playing such games helped me to be smarter, simply I know it certainly taught me to think speedily, to develop a program of action in anticipation of future issues, and to think before I human action!

Get started:

List of Abstract Strategy Games [Wiki]
Yahoo! Games — Gratuitous strategy games and board games where you can pit your skills against players around the world

xv. Connect with past teachers

Some of us may think of teachers in a bad light. Subsequently all, teachers are often remembered for giving us endless assignments and tests and generally making our lives miserable while in school!

Notwithstanding, our teachers are likewise crucial educators who impart importanted knowledge — and life skills — to usa during our early on ages when nosotros were the well-nigh impressionable. They ensured that we would be on the right path as we entered preadolescence, adolescence, and subsequently machismo. While teachers don't e'er get everything right, their intentions come from a proficient place and they want to encounter u.s. win.

Think well-nigh your past teachers in inferior school, loftier school, and third pedagogy. Find ways to get dorsum in touch with them. (Calling your alma mater is always a expert start.) Let them know how they have touched your life.

16. Let someone know how much he/she means to you

In our life'southward journey, we are constantly touched and supported past people effectually us, exist it friends, family, or acquaintances. Can y'all place someone who has fabricated a difference in your life? Write a letter to the person today and let him/her know how much he/she means to you. You can do this as many times as you desire, for as many people as you like. Read:

#GratitudeChallenge Day three: Write a Gratitude Note to Someone
#KindnessChallenge Solar day 9: Write a Letter to Someone Who Has Fabricated a Difference in Your Life

17. Requite a heartfelt surprise to someone

When's the final fourth dimension you gave someone a surprise? :) It's always heartwarming to come home to a nicely cooked dinner, to take a bouquet of flowers sent to you lot at work, or to even receive a simple text bulletin from a loved one. Who is someone you would like to touch today? What surprise can you give to him/her?

Read: #KindnessChallenge Twenty-four hour period 14: Do Something Unexpectedly Nice For Someone

xviii. Perform a kind deed without expecting annihilation in return

Many of us are often waiting to receive rather than to give. Yet for whatsoever human relationship to work, there has to be both giving and receiving. If you oftentimes discover yourself wondering why no ane is giving you what yous want, how about practicing giving to others first? :) The rest will follow.

Can yous think of someone in your life who is in demand of help or can do good from your help? How can you extend your support to him/her? Read:

24-hour interval 11: Acts of Kindness in Be a Ameliorate Me in thirty Days Program
#GratitudeChallenge Day 9: Share Something Yous are Grateful For with Someone
How to Take More than Best Friends: My Heartfelt Guide

19. Make a difference in someone's life

Making a difference is more than than doing a kind deed, though it tin come as a result of a kind deed. When you lot make a difference in someone's life, you change the person's life for the ameliorate… permanently. What is the divergence YOU want to make in others' lives? How can you make that happen?

Read: #KindnessChallenge 24-hour interval 7: Make a Donation

20. Be a mentor to someone

Educational activity is one of the most rewarding things we tin can practise. No matter how sometime y'all are, even if you are in your teens, yous are always in the position to mentor someone else — maybe someone who is more than junior than y'all or someone who is older but can do good from a particular expertise you lot have. Mentoring others is also a great fashion for you lot to develop yourself also.

Many communities are always looking for volunteer mentors, and then cheque with your local community programs for such opportunities. At the same time, is at that place anyone you know who tin can benefit from being mentored by you? Extend your hand to help — who knows, it may well be what he/she needs at this moment!

21. Pursue your passion

Honestly, life is too short to be spent doing something you don't dear. This was why I quit my mean solar day job in September 2008 (right start at the start of the financial crisis no less) to pursue my passion to help others abound. I take never looked dorsum ever since — for the by five years, I've been writing at Personal Excellence and helping people to grow. It has been the most fulfilling affair I've ever done and I plan to do this for the residuum of my life.

What is your passion? Is information technology to be an creative person? To sing and perform? To exist a life coach? To travel? To help other people to abound (same every bit my passion)? To be the best that yous tin be? How can you beginning pursuing it?

If you don't know what your passion is, this do will assist you to detect information technology: Observe Your Life Purpose in the Next 30 Minutes

Some people pursue their passion part time while some brand information technology their careers (or even plough their passion into a concern). I personally think that if something is your passion, and then you should turn it into your life's work, because that'south the nearly synergistic and rewarding path you tin can pursue. Contrary to common belief that pursuing your passion is at odds with existence rich, you tin can pursue your passion and exist financially abundant. I'm an example of this.

These articles document the early stages of my passion journeying and will help yous in yours:

Passion or Money?
How To Find Your Platonic Career: Your Bulletin and Your Medium
Overcome Fearfulness Of Loss And Pursue Your Dreams
Pursuing Your Passion With No Money
Passion Paycheck

22. Start your business

Entrepreneurship is fraught with doubtfulness but it certainly is fun and rewarding! I started my personal development business in 2008 without cognition of professional blogging or coaching and started earning more my last corporate pay within my third yr. By being smart, diligent, and persistent in your try, there's no reason why anyone shouldn't succeed. Read:

Tin can Anybody Exist Successful in Starting Their Business?
Successful Businesses Interview Series
Million Dollar Tip Series

23. Fly in a hot-air airship

The view of the world as you bladder away in a gasbag balloon… spectacular. In one case, I got to fly in a gasbag balloon while I was in Orangish County in 2012… though that was just a stationary airship ride that went up for a minute before coming dorsum down. My next goal is to have a real hot-air balloon ride.

Read: World's x Best Gasbag Balloon Adventures

24. Sing to an audience

If you dear singing, don't continue your passion to yourself! The adjacent fourth dimension there is an effect, offer to sing as ane of the performance items. Singing shouldn't exist limited to when y'all are showering in the bath. :)

25. Do volunteer work

Volunteering is a wonderful mode to give back to the globe. As I mentioned in 24-hour interval four: Sign Up for Volunteer Piece of work of the Kindness Claiming,

Volunteer work is i of the best ways to betrayal yourself to a new medium of helping other people. There are tons of volunteer piece of work out in that location, from profitable the elderly at the old folks' home, working with runaway kids, being a mentor to kids at orphanages, helping out at animal shelters, beach cleanups, and so on.

Volunteer piece of work doesn't have to be some grandiose act. Equally long as you are offer a part of yourself pro bono to the world (be it in terms of skills, cognition, time, effort, or coin), yous are in fact volunteering.

Read more: #KindnessChallenge Day iv: Sign Upwards for Volunteer Work

Some places to get started:

Volunteer Match (for U.S. only)
SG Cares (for Singapore)
Do-it — Volunteering made piece of cake (for U.Grand.)

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