Life is all about adventure. Adventure can take many forms for different people. For me, it is about exploring your environment, tackling challenges, delving deep into your imagination, and engaging meaningfully with the world. I believe that adventure can be found anywhere: at work, on the way to where you’re going, raising a family, studying, anywhere!
Writing a bucket list involves putting all your dreams and ideas down in one place. It can be inspiring and fun! Googling "bucket list" will yield countless pages providing suggestions for things you can put on your bucket list. Beware of relying too much on these lists, though. Your hopes and dreams are unique and need to come from inside of you.
The term bucket list is controversial for some. For example, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield explains his theory that a bucket list may lead you to view your life as empty or unfilled due to the focus on things that have not been checked off. Instead he recommends filling your bucket everyday.
Good point. Be sure to use your bucket list as a tool for choosing a life rich with adventure for today, tomorrow, and one day. Some people have suggested alternatives to the name bucket list. My favourite is Awesome List. And just in case you’ve forgotten, awesome is a pretty extraordinary word meaning awe-struck and awe-inspiring. The experiences on this list are just that.
This is the first draft of my updated bucket list that lives outside of my brain. My next bucket list project is to have different lists for different parts of me. Most of the things on this list will be part of my Awesome Adventure List, a growing list of all the things I’d like to do and see in the world. Other lists will be more specific to my creativity, livelihood, family, and relationships.
Here’s my Awesome Adventure List. What’s on your list?
- Swim with dolphins.
- Go skydiving.
- Stay in an overwater bungalow in Tahiti.
- Visit the Eiffel Tour.
- Have a television makeover.
- Run a marathon.
- Take a ballroom dancing class.
- Become a certified scuba diver.
- Foster kittens from the animal shelter.
- Learn American Sign Language.
- Swim in phosphorescent waters.
- Take a massage course.
- Walk the West Coast Trail.
- Do a triathlon.
- Marry my love.
- Shave my head.
- Sew clothing from curtains for my family, just like the Von Trapps.
- Try shooting with shotgun. (That clay pigeon is still alive and well).
- Try using a bow and arrow.
- Take a Thai cooking class.
- Go climbing in Krabi.
- Hike the long range traverse at Gros Morne National Park. (Borrowed from Ariana’s bucket list).
- Visit Angkor Wat.
- Visits the Great Pyramids and scuba dive in the Red Sea.
- Swim with whale sharks.
- Swim with humpback whales.
- Walk New Zealand’s 8 Great Walks (and paddle the Great Paddle). 4 completed.
- Go scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef.
- Take a winter mountaineering course.
- Have two children, one pink and one blue.
- Go tramping by myself.
- Take the kids tramping on my own.
- Knit socks.
- Learn Spanish.
- Make a pottery mug.
- Learn to do a handstand.
- Get a tattoo.
- Take singing lessons.
- Harvest 3 different fruits from my own backyard.
- Volunteer in an elephant rescue centre. (Will go again!)
- Walk along the Great Wall of China.
- Learn to count to 10 in Mandarin.
- Climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
- Complete an Oceanswim race.
- Finish my PhD.
- Buy a house.
- Publish an academic article. Publish 5 (PhD) academic articles.
- Start a blog. Hooray!
- Get paid for something I've written.
- Become a beekeeper. In progress from 2016.
- Bargain the price on something purchased in Asia.
- Bargain the price on something purchased at home.
- See the Northern Lights.
- Try roller derby - fresh meat.
- Go on a pilgrimage.
- Bike the trans-Canada trail.
- Volunteer in a soup kitchen.
- Grow tomatoes in my garden.
- Grow a whole meal in my backyard.
- Become a Kiwi.
- Do an adventure race.
- Do 5 consecutive chin-ups.
- Go vegan for a month.
- Take a yoga teacher training course in India.
- Visit the Galapagos Islands.
- Travel to Easter Island.
- Tramping in Patagonia.
- Skate at a rollerdisco.
- Foster a seeing eye puppy.
- Meet some lemurs in Madagascar with my family.
- Visit Samociazek.
- Walk the Te Araroa Trail.
- Weave a kete.
- Run the Goat Tongariro.
- Learn Te Reo
- Try snowshoeing.
- Paddle down the Colorado River.
- Visit Mexico.
- Fly in a hot air balloon.
- Stand up paddle board around the mount.
- Go for a helicopter ride or take a flying lesson.
- Take piano lessons (again).
- Learn a martial art.
- Build a tiny dream home.
- Give a TED talk.
- Go 1 week screen free.
- Go 1 week without talking.
- Try downhill skiing.
- Sleep in a bivy on a mountain top.
- Visit Tibet.
- Invite Ice’s children to stay with us.
- Cycle the Ocean to Alps trail.
- To have an action figure made in my likeness.
- Volunteer to help sea turtles.
- Help with a little blue penguin count.
- Scuba diving at White Island.
- Experience zero gravity.
- Homer nude tunnel run.
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