The Greatest list of Bucket List Ideas Ever

If you don’t live the days of your life achieving something whether it’s a goal, plans, or dreams, chances are you spend most of your time caught up in a flurry of day-to-day activities

What are some of those things you’ve always wanted to do before you die?

Having a list of all the the goals we want to realize, the dreams we want to fulfill, and the experiences we desire to have, keeps us focused on doing what is important. It reminds us of what is significant to us so we can act on it.

The whole point of creating your list is to maximize every moment of our existence and live our life to the fullest. It’s a reminder of all the things we want to achieve in our time here, so that instead of pandering our time in pointless activities, we are directing it fully toward what matters to us.

Here are the greatest bucket list ideas ever:

Life Goals

1. Expand my thinking beyond what I am conditioned to conceive of

2. Delegate more effectively so that I have more time to work on what matters most

3. Lose weight without orienting my life around it

4. Develop a financial plan to become financially independent at age

5. Change my relationship with food from comfort to sustenance

6. Change my approach from selling to telling and from telling to modeling

7. Learn how to set up a website that showcases myself and my services/company

8. Become masterful with sending and receiving all forms of email

9. Improve the quality of my home life

10. Take much more time for me instead of living too much for others

11. Take charge of my life instead of letting other people run it for me

12. Become unconditionally constructive in everything I say

13. Design a lifestyle that makes me incredibly happy

14. Improve the profitability of my company by at least

15. Expand my network to include the finest professionals in 100 different fields

16. Stop pushing for individual sales and start investing in lifetime buying relationships

17. Goof off and not feel guilty about it

18. Communicate so well that people respond immediately

19. Turn my time into an asset — 1440 ‘assets’ a day

20. Eliminate or reduce adrenaline in my life so I don’t burn myself and others up

21. Redesign my life so that it’s oriented around vacations, not work

22. Increase by ability to process more information without getting overwhelmed

23. Accelerate my personal evolution

24. Feel a lot better about myself and my family

25. Reduce the amount of conflict in my life so that I can relax

26. Increase the amount of money I have in savings

27. Start a new business and avoid the common learning curve

28. Identify the triggers that cause adrenaline, before they get me wired

29. Start reading the books that will help you evolve instead of merely develop

30. Design my path of personal development

31. Reduce what I am tolerating at work

32. Clean out the clutter in my closets, draws and garage

33. Learn how to ask the right questions in any selling situation

34. Create a buying environment instead of a selling environment

35. Learn how to make more money in the New Economy

36. Discover what is causing dissonance in my life

37. Become cyber and Internet literate without having to struggle through the process

38. Come to endorse my worst weakness as my biggest strength

39. Be able to look at any problem and see an opportunity, without wearing rose colored glasses

40. Have more patience, especially when I have none

41. Walk my talk without strutting

42. Become a Toleration-Free Zone

43. Strengthen my Personal Foundation so that the underpinnings of my life are rock solid

44. Add value to my customers and clients, just for the joy of it

45. Identify the unique skills and talents that I know are waiting to be leveraged

46. Eliminate delay, so I don’t miss opportunities

47. Stop procrastinating and be ‘inventory-free’

48. Toss out my to-do list (or to create one)

49. Expand my vocabulary so that I can better express myself in any situation

50. Stop whining and start winning

       

 

Personal Goals

 

51. Find the career that is no longer work

52. Play with my kids everyday instead of when I have time

53. Identify every source of stress in my life and either reduce or eliminate it

54. Put my family first without having to put myself second

55. Learn how to give people what want, without it costing me anything

56. Evolve from win-lose to win-win in my thinking

57. Design values-based goals instead of whim-based goals

58. Stop taking live so darn seriously

59. Give others the experienced of being heard, instead of just being listened to

60. Increase my bandwidth in order to handle more input

61. React less and respond more

62. Clean up my life and start clean

63. Start over

64. Discover my personal values and orient my life around these

65. Identify and eliminate 10 tolerations in the next 10 days

66. Create a perfect life

67. Become self-actualized

68. Write a book without the pain

69. Develop a LifePlan and start living it

70. Make the personal changes I have not been able to make on my own

71. Get focused

72. Blow up the blocks standing in the path to success

73. Start taking the path of least resistance instead of working against life

74. Increase the momentum in life so that I am carried forward instead of pushing myself

75. Find a better way to motivate myself

76. Stop watching Jay Leno and get to bed earlier

77. Throw out my television set

78. Move to the country because I want to

79. Make a significant personal decision

80. Create a business plan without taking 3 months to do so

81. Get in the habit of flossing daily

82. Get the support I need to visit the dentist

83. Get the nudge I need to hire a house cleaner so I don’t have to do it

84. Improve my attitude so I’m always positive, naturally

85. Take more chances

86. Change my relationship with risk

87. Develop a reserve of time during my day

88. Get out of a rut.

89. Do a personal makeover

90. Improve what I see in the mirror

91. Keep me on track around using Nautilus 3 times per week

92. Better identify the people who are really good for me, and who are not

93. Extend my boundaries without setting up walls

94. Strengthen my character so I am really proud of who I am

95. Become more sensitive with people who need that from me

96. Stop micromanaging people

97. Bring in 5 new clients a month

98. Make a million dollars next year

99. Become a saver and therefore start saving because I enjoy it

100. Reduce my credit card debt much faster than I am currently

        

Future Goals

 

101. Get control over my spending

102. Build a “team” with my area managers

103. Spend more time in the garden

104. Spend more time at the beach

105. Spend more time

106. Learn how to practice Extreme Self Care

107. Increase my havingness level to that I can maintain my success

108. Simplify everything

109. Get back to exercising: 40 sit-ups and 20 push-ups per day

110. Be able to meet men and women and not get anxious about it

111. Book at least 5 selling appointments in the next 10 days

112. Help me identify my unique selling proposition and my label

113. Close ten new clients in next 90 days

114. Start an email-based weekly newsletter to expand my network

115. Easily ask for what I want

116. Become a very direct and confident communicator

117. Tell the truth instead of what people want to hear.

118. Increase my awareness

119. Slow down to enjoy the weather and take in the wonder of everyday life

120. Spend less time in the future and more time enjoying the present

121. Design my winning formula

122. Reduce business expenses by $20,000

123. Increase business by 20% without spending more on advertising

124. Identify three specific goals that light me up for next year

125. Get clear on my values and align my goals with them

126. Create an inspiring project where I will touch at least 100 people per month

127. Launch a national organisation

128. Become a better team leader so employees love their jobs

129. Create a sales program for a new niche

130. Let go of the people in my life who drain my energy

131. Create a personal health plan that includes exercise

132. Take more days off

133. Plan three wonderful vacations for next year

134. Set clear boundaries and train those around me to treat me with respect

135. Begin a financial independence plan

136. Save $100,000 next year

137. Take a day every week to renew and rejuvenate

138. Develop a national reputation for what I do well

139. Brainstorm and prioritize the best ideas to use in my business

140. Work 25% less hours without making less

141. Become a person who smiles almost all of the time

142. Write to someone with whom I have unfinished business

143. Apologize to someone to whom it is very difficult

144. Ask my partner to give three hours of his time per week, to release me to do something I really enjoy

145. Discover what makes me tick

Goals in Life

146. Bring balance to work, home, community and personal time over a three months

147. Start running each morning

148. Decrease body fat percentage by 10% within six months

149. Upgrade all computer programs within three months

150. Stop smoking completely within three months

        

 

151. Stop over-promising and making commitments

152. Complete a tough project on time

153. Pay off car loan one year early

154. Buy a new car within 6 months

155. Buy a house within one year

156. Quit my job to work from home within two years

157. Become a telecommuter

158. Go half-time at work

159. Redecorate house in 6 months

160. Negotiate a 10% raise next evaluation

161. Learn five skills to better communicate with my children

162. Learn five skills to better communicate with my spouse

163. Establish one delicious habit and do it every day

164. Rebuild my life after a loss

165. Bring romance back into my marriage within 90 days

166. Discover my life purpose and begin setting goals to live it within 90 days

167. Become more efficient without becoming a machine

168. Return to school to pursue a graduate

169. Get married within five years

170. Expand business to sell products over the Internet

171. Take a trip to Europe

172. Go on a safari

173. Own a boat

174. Stop fibbing and lying completely within three months

175. Build meditation and yoga into daily

176. Achieve assigned sales numbers one week prior to end of month to avoid rushing for sales the last week

177. Spend 10% less money monthly

178. Identify 101 things I love to do and do one each day

179. Decrease time spent paying bills

180. Increase personal time by four hours a week within one month

Examples of Goals

181. Enroll in a cooking class

182. Take scuba lessons and go on a Caribbean dive

183. Discard unnecessary household and personal items within three months

184. Discard items cluttering office and desk within one month

185. Establish three things I am passionate about as priorities in my life within six months

186. Drop three clothing sizes within six months

187. Fit into those 32-inch Levis within six months

188. Go on a guilt-free shopping spree

189. Pay back money owed to friends within 6 months

190. Stop complaining within 14 days

191. Shift/release a sabotaging belief within 60 days

192. Reconcile credit report within 6 months

193. Establish and enforce boundaries within a relationship

194. Reduce number of credit cards to three in 18 months

195. Move into a larger apartment within nine months

196. Visit grandparents out-of-state within the year

197. Design a class or TeleClass and market it within six months

198. Allow one day out of each month to do something I really want to do

199. Organize my pension, will, life insurance and mortgage papers within 60 days

200. Meet with a Financial Advisor twice a year to keep finances updated to set goals on a weekly basis

        

 

201. Genuinely thank people who help me, daily

202. Reestablish a lost relationship

203. Call up one member of my family per week, just to say

204. Pay off mortgage within five years

205. Be prepared for a holiday season (eg, Christmas) at least one month before the holiday begins

206. Train a pet to consistently perform a desired action on command

207. Reorient personal and professional life completely around values (not wants and needs) within three years

208. Join Toastmasters and complete first ten speeches within six months

209. Develop two new profit centers in my business within one month

210. Trash 100 megabytes of stuff I don’t need on my computer

211. Clean out/purge all home and work files this month

212. Get my hair cut and styled the way I really want it and the way that is most attractive for me

213. Say “no” 5 times this week

214. Keep the gas tank in my vehicle at least half full at all times

215. Join and participate in those networking groups that will assist in business and personal life

216. Disentangle from those organizations that do not add value to business or personal life within one month

217. Learn how to use a computer

218. Develop a sense of style

219. Take a world tour

220. Improve my reputation among my colleagues

221. Attract the mate of my dreams

222. Become Ms Right instead of searching for Mr Right

223. Turn my ideas into revenue streams

224. Clean up where I get my energy from

225. Reduce the friction in my life by finding the right oil

226. Develop a reserve of opportunities so I don’t have to look for them

227. Build a personal support network of people with similar interests

228. Learn how to attract business instead of constantly marketing for it

229. Design a personal development plan for my children

230. Deepen my relationships with my friends

231. Delight my customers, not just please them

232. Become a more respectful person of other peoples’ ways

233. Keep my word

234. Be accountable for results

235. Enjoy responsibility instead of trying to avoid it

Bucket List

236. Clarify my professional commitments

237. Become an adult in every sense of the word

238. Learn how to say no without turning people off

239. Make it clear to people what I require of them

240. Reorganize my office and work environment

241. Automate and delegate almost every aspect of my personal tasks and chores

242. Get more done, but slow the pace of how I’m working

243. Increase my self-esteem

244. Balance my personal, family and business lives

245. Better integrate what I already have

246. Reduce the roles I am for others

247. Become a lot more creative in what I do

248. Prioritize my time so that I don’t feel rushed and exhausted

249. Trust my inklings more

250. Turn my intuition into my primary decision-making system

       

 

251. Develop a marketing strategy for my business

252. Build my personal brand

253. Free myself from my beliefs

254. Come to accept that which I resist

255. Become a better writer

256. Speak in a lazer-like fashion

257. Become an effective public speaker

258. Find my voice and speak confidently

259. Distinguish truth from b.s. in every situation, instantly

260. Become a proactive person who never waits

261. Develop grace

262. Improve the relationship I have with my husband

263. Improve the relationship I have with my spouse

264. Improve the relationship I have with my wife

265. Improve the relationship I have with my children

266. Improve the relationship I have with my son

267. Improve the relationship I have with my daughter

268. Improve the relationship I have with my father

269. Improve the relationship I have with my mother

270. Improve the relationship I have with my siblings

Bucket List Ideas

271. Improve the relationship I have with my in-laws

272. Improve the relationship I have with my neighbours

273. Improve the relationship I have with my boss

274. Set Foot on North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, Antarctica and Africa)

275. Ride in a Hot Air Balloon

276. Personally Know Someone Famous

277. Dance with Miss America

278. Swim with a Dolphin

279. Learn a Foreign Language and Actually Use It

280. Have my Portrait Painted

281. Watch a Space Shuttle Launch

282. Be an Extra in a Film

283. Skydive

284. Scuba Dive

285. Ride a Train

286. Be a Member of a Studio Audience

287. Send a Message in a Bottle and get a Response

288. Go to Space

289. Plant a Tree and Watch it Grow

290. Learn to Ballroom Dance -Properly

291. Sit on a Jury

292. Write an Autobiography

293. Be Someone’s Mentor

294. Shower in a Waterfall

295. Learn to Legitimately Play a Song on any Musical Instrument

296. Teach someone illiterate to read

297. Spend the night in a haunted place

298. See a Lunar Eclipse

299. Spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square

300. Drive Across America Coast-to-Coast

        

301. Go Snow Skiing

302. Crash an extravagant wedding

303. Write my will

304. Sleep under the stars

305. Go white-water rafting

306. Own my own house

307. Grow a garden and eat the produce

308. Have six-pack abs

309. Go Deep Sea Fishing

310. Spend time at a concentration camp

311. Create a Family Tree

312. Spoil my grandchildren

313. Catch a foul ball or home-run at a MLB game

314. Hit a hole-in-one

315. Run a marathon

316. Swim with sharks

317. Experience weightlessness – no gravity

318. Go to a sumo wrestling match

319. See a tornado touch ground

320. Go to an active volcano

321. Go to a nudist colony

322. Travel on a safari

323. Ride a bull

324. Run with the bulls in Pamplona

325. Attend a Jewish wedding

326. Go to a Pow-Wow

327. Ride a cable car in San Francisco

328. Watch the Yankees-Red Sox in Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium

329. Try to make a guard laugh at Buckingham Palace

330. Walk a length of the Great Wall of China

331. Go to a drive-in movie theater

332. See Mt. Rushmore

333. Drive an 18-wheeler

334. Eat a meal from a world-class chef

335. Crash a Hollywood Studio

336. Meet someone famous randomly

337. Spend a day in a spa

338. Walk the red carpet at a huge event

339. Stay at a 5-star hotel

340. See Stonehenge

341. Stand next to a pyramid

342. Ride a Gondola in Venice

343. Take a yoga class

344. Take a photography class

345. Shake hands with a President

346. Learn how to sail

347. See the Northern Lights

348. Kiss on top the Eiffel Tower

349. Learn to Juggle

350. Get a tattoo

       

 

351. Crowd Surf at a rock concert

352. Bungy Jump

353. Save someone’s life

354. Get a book published

355. Get a standing ovation

356. Kill a wild game animal

357. Make a clay pot

358. Relax in Tahiti for at least two weeks

359. Live abroad

360. Eat frog legs and gumbo and shrimp in the Deep South

361. Snowboard

362. Be on a game show

363. Go treasure hunting

364. Be involved in a heist

365. Own a pet monkey

366. Land a flip on a wakeboard

367. Surf the waves in Hawaii

368. Enter a professional Ping-Pong tournament

369. Give my daughter away at her wedding to a man who deserves her

370. Watch the sunset on a beach on my honeymoon

371. Coach my son’s little league baseball team

372. Run my own successful business

373. Watch OU-Texas at the Red River Rivalry

374. Walk across hot coals

375. Go to all 50 U.S. States

376. Be on a Reality TV show.

377. Be completely out of debt.

378. Go on a cruise.

379. Drive through a Redwood Tree.

380. Ride the Skycoaster at the Royal Gorge

381. Go to the Summer Olympic Games

382. Have acupuncture

383. Visit the Hoover Dam

384. Climb Chichen Itza

385. Stand beside the Christ the Redeemer statue

386. Walk around the Colosseum in Rome

387. Visit Machu Picchu

388. Explore Petra

389. Take a picture in front of the Taj Mahal

390. Adopt a child

391. Travel to the center of all religion, Jerusalem

392. Ride a Segway

393. Attend a World Cup Match

394. Go Ice Fishing

395. Take the Polar Plunge in a cold weather country

396. Give a commencement speech

397. Sleep on a Trampoline

398. Swim in every ocean

399. Fly an airplane

400. Go to a NASCAR race

       

 

401. Have a street named after me

402. Tour the White House

403. Set a World Record

404. Get something patented

405. Catch a trout while fly fishing

406. Eat at a Brazilian Steakhouse in Brazil

407. Visit an orphanage in a foreign country

408. Ride a Double Decker Bus in London

409. Set atop the London Eye

410. Get my Ph.D

411. Complete the Hawaii IRONMAN Challenge

412. Draw a charge from Nick Collison in a pickup basketball game

413. Give a speech to over 10,000 people

414. Attend the Iditarod

415. Baptize somebody somewhere cool

416. Be an Olympian

417. Be in a community theater

418. Be in the $40,000 plus speaking club

419. Be interviewed on national morning show

420. Be invited onto a professional court/field

421. Be invited to the white house

422. Be the world champion of public speaking

423. Build a tree house

424. Buy someone a house

425. Camp in a national park

426. Carry the Olympic torch

427. Climb a lighthouse

428. Complete a 40 day fast

429. Crank my neck upward at the Sistine Chapel

430. Create a board game

431. Dance with an African Tribe

432. Dig a well for community

433. Eat at Michelin award-winning restaurant

434. Eat chocolate in Switzerland

435. Encircle a giant sequoia at Yosemite National Park

436. Finish a corn maze

437. Fly a kite with my girls on the beach

438. Fly in a private jet

439. Get gas at the world’s largest truck stop

440. Give a $10,000 gift to charity

441. Give a $25,000 gift

442. Give a $50,000 gift

443. Give away a car

444. Go indoor skydiving

445. Go on a 30 Day leadership adventure

446. Go whale watching

447. Go Zorbing

448. Golf at Pebble Beach

449. Graduate with a master’s degree

450. Have a book published

       

 

451. Have a conversation in 2 second languages

452. Hear Niagara Falls

453. Help build an orphanage

454. Hike in the Grand Canyon

455. Hike part of the Appalachians

456. Host a Christmas party for people with nowhere to go

457. Host a collection (10 piece min)

458. Host a foreign exchange student

459. Host a leadership training in Antarctica

460. Invent a well-known game

461. Kiss the Blarney Stone

462. Live in NYC for 6 months

463. Make a scrapbook with each child

464. Marvel at Aurora Borealis

465. Meet the POTUS

Bucket List Ideas

466. Mush a dog sled

467. Own a house outright

468. Own a cool antique

469. Own a pinball machine

470. Own a signed copy of “Giving Tree”

471. Parasail

472. Participate in a reenactment

473. Plant a master’s commission or ministry school

474. Play bocce ball

475. Be on a Radio Show

476. Crash a Party

477. Push a stone at Stonehenge

478. Quote scripture at Christ the Redeemer

479. Raise $1 million in 1 fundraiser

480. Raise my arms on the top 5 coasters in the world

481. Read 52 books in 1 year

482. Read the Bible in 7 different translations

483. Read the complete works of C.S. Lewis

484. Read the top 100 books of all time

485. Read the works of John Maxwell

486. Receive an honorary degree

487. Ride a camel in its natural environment

488. Ride a roller coaster at Cedarpoint

489. Ride an ostrich

490. Ride in a gondola

491. Ride in a helicopter

492. Run a 1/2 marathon

493. RV across part of America

494. Say something profound which becomes a famous quote

495. See a bear catch a salmon

496. See Adele in concert

497. See blinded eyes open

498. See Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone

499. See the Acropolis in Greece

500. Shake hands with a matador

501. Camp at the Grand Canyon

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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