This is a bucket list of things I will do in the next few years.
I started this list because…on a particularly memorable occasion in October of 2008, I was reading a book that posed a question to the reader:
If anything were possible (barring violations of physics), and money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now? What would you have, do, and be?
It was a question I never forgot. This list holds my answers to that question.
PHYSICAL FEATS
“This is about limits. Reaching them, exploring them, exceeding them what you thought yours were, or perhaps coming to the conclusion that there aren’t any limits.”
-Unbekannt
- Compete in the World Ironman Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii.
- Sprint distance tri (done in Mar 2009)
- Olympic distance tri (done in Apr 2009)
- Ironman distance tri (done in Aug 2009)
- Race a Kona “qualifier” Ironman - Make a complete circumnavigation of the oceans, solo.
- Learn to sail (3-4 months).
- Gain sailing experience. (9+ months).
- Buy and renovate a 30-40 ft sailboat. - Travel by human power across every continent.
- North America (done by bike, Jun-Aug 2007)
- South America
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Australia
- Antarctica
CAREER and WORLD IMPACT
It is a sense of enormous expectation, the sense that one’s life is important, that great achievements are within one’s capacity, and that great things lie ahead.
-The Fountainhead
- Start a business (done in Jan 2010)
- Build a blog that makes a significant impact to the right people.
- 1000 true fans - Coordinate an extreme “obstacle course” style race, like this one.
- Publish a #1 bestselling book through a major publisher.
- Start a consumer health company.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
- Live minimalistically to achieve clear thinking, and to create the option to easily travel anywhere in the world.
- Reduce all paper documents to one filing box (done in June 2010)
- Go paperless.
- Reduce all belongings to 100 items (done in June 2010) - Survive in the wildnerness, with no tools/equipment, for 1 month.
- Learn to unicycle (done in May 2008)
- Learn to fly a plane or helicopter.
- Learn to shoot guns and rifles, on target.
- Learn freerunning/parkour.
- Learn to break dance.
- Learn to eat fire.
- Learn Muay Thai and MMA fighting.
- Learn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
- Learn Shiva Nata dance/yoga.
LIVING ABROAD and TRAVEL
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
-Henry Miller
- Phuket, Thailand
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Mindoro, Philippines
- Bali, Indonesia
- South Africa
- Japan
- Papua New Guinea
- New Zealand
- Bora Bora Islands