Since watching the movie “The Bucket List” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman and filling out some random Facebook Bucket List Questionnaire that someone else made up for you to check off items, I have looked at my own life and the many adventures I’ve been on and the items that I’ve accomplished so far in this life. I recall back to the days in middle school when my classmates and I would create “Slam Books”, a notebook somewhat similar to a Bucket List that asked for answers to a bunch of random questions, and pass them around to fill out until we were caught by our teachers. Rather than check off the tasks I have completed from someone else’s Bucket List, I’ve decided to create my own. Really, who wants to laugh until milk or some other beverage has come out of their nose? I have many other more interesting accomplishments that I’d rather boast about and challenge myself to, and they are less painful or embarrassing… (continued)
Since watching the movie “The Bucket List”
For this list I’m going to start of with several that I know I have accomplished and others that I plan to or simply dream to, maybe, one day accomplish. Some are more important dreams to me than others and some are just quick thoughts. I’ll add to this list anytime I think of something new I want to do. Life gives me the freedom of choice to change my mind or add on at any time.
Should I consider myself a failure if I do not complete them all? No. This is a dream sheet. Something to give me hope, to look forward to, and a way of keeping score of accomplishments that I can look back on to see how far I’ve come. As you read my list I encourage you to create a Bucket List of your own. Get creative. Allow yourself to be artistic, silly, adventurous, romantic, charitable, practical, and daring. Challenge yourself. Step outside of your comfort zone, if you dare. Make it public or keep it private to only yourself, it doesn’t matter. There’s a site that I found, Dream Cockpit, where you can create very specific dream goals in a online community format that you can share or keep private. Just allow yourself to dream. You might surprize yourself at how just that first step, putting intention into your thoughts, can create the opportunities you may have previously denied yourself or told yourself that it is something you can never do (even when you secretly want to).
Meet, fall in love, and marry the man that will be my best friend.
Give birth to at least one child.
Speak fluent Italian.
Learn to play the piano.
Restore my grandmother’s piano from the early 1900s.
Learn kite-surfing.
Fly in a helicopter.
I missed the helicopter over to Necker but my pilot let me fly the plane.
Fly a plane.
Get my pilot’s license.
Go on a road trip across the USA.
Drive all along the Pacific Coast Highway, stopping to visit different parts of the wine country.
Ride on a tandem bike.
Go surfing.
Go water skiing.
Go snow skiing.
Travel by train.
Go sailing in the Mediterranean.
Live on a yacht.
Own a home on the beach or the Intercoastal.
Own a home in St. Barth’s.
Own a home in Italy.
Write a book.
Go ziplining.
Go white-water rafting.
Fly in a wingsuit (BASE Jumping) - Man Can Fly!
Go bungee jumping.
Go to the Eiffel Tower.
Go to the Louvre.
Spend New Year’s Eve in Rome.
Spend New Year’s Eve in New York City.
Visit the Vatican.
See the Coliseum.
Horseback riding on the beach.
Get airborne in a vehicle (on purpose) and land safely.
You'd be surprised how many times I did this for the shot.
Learn stunt car driving.
Go cave diving.
Go sky-diving.
Go ice skating in Central Park.
Take a romantic carriage ride through the park.
See a Broadway play.
See Billy Joel in concert.
Meet Sir Richard Branson.
Ride in a hot-air balloon.
Fly into space on a Virgin Galactic flight.
Vacation on Necker Island.
Go to Italy.
See Michaelangelo’s David.
Go to the Caribbean by yacht.
Visit the Las Vegas strip.
See a live Cirque du Soleil show.
Pet a Siberian tiger.
Swim with dolphins.
Stand under a waterfall.
standing in the waterfall, what a great massage!
Become a millionaire.
Visit a castle.
Create a successful online artist network.
Be a successful real estate investor.
Quit my day job & work only for myself.
Own the home that was built by my great-grandfather and restore it.
Raise a large sum of money ($100,000) for a charity.
Create a foundation for a worthwhile cause.
Drive a Jeep through the desert.
Eat fire.
Walk on a bed of broken glass with bare feet.
Walk on a bed of coals with bare feet.
Camp at the beach on St. John’s.
Spend the night on the beach watching the stars fall.
Hike up a mountain.
Hike the Appalachian Trail.
Watch the sunrise from a mountain top.
Sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine
Recent add-ons that I thought were great from my friend’s list:
View the Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis
Cruise through Alaska
Sail around the world
Go on an African photo safari
Visit all 50 States
After recent adventures revisiting old interests:
Become a sought after, highly compensated model
Have my modeling images published in a nationally recognized magazine or catalog
do yourself a favor and go skydiving. you wont regret it.
Only in Florida can you go to Flight School and learn how to only STEER the plane, take off and landing being irrelevant under certain circumstances, and therefore optional.
Sounds like fun. It's probably a pre-req for the jumping/flying in those squirrel suits that I want to do.
I flew my plane in the BVI. I wasn't expecting it.
lol, I put a link up for that stuff. you have to have around 200 jumps under your belt before you get to fly. I am working on that myself.
sky-diving–you definitely gotta do it. What an experience!
Woops, guess I was way off there. Regarding the Laughing untill some kind of beverage comes out your nose, trust me, you can skip that one without regrets. It's only really funny to you until the nasal emission, which is very painful – then you'll still be in hysterics but in a painful, embarassing kind where others will no longer be laughing with you but now rather at you, unless, of course, they had simultaneous laughing nasal beverage emmissions with you which would be a rare treat indeed.
Stephanie – I applaud you for the bucket list! Good luck with in achieving the remaining items!
Thanks Tiphanie. Actually I saw this on someone else's wall. Not all of these would be MY bucket list. I am thinking of doing one of these for my birthday this year – skydiving! After the comments it got me thinking about what an exciting thing that would be for my next one. Last year was luck when I flew the plane into Necker Island.
Sorry for the typo above. I have quite a few co-workers who attended the day school in the Gainsville, FL area. I heard really good things about their jump and their photos turned out great! Good luck!
Hi Stephanie,
You are an amazing lady. I love this. You have fabulous and worthy ideas on your bucket list. I may ‘borrow’ a few that I don’t have and would like to add to my list. I wish you a speedy completion of the things on your list so you can add more and do those too.
Hugs,
Croix
very amazing day! Good luck in new adventures, realy nice