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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