47 Amazing Bucket List Ideas & Resources
December 27, 2008
Since the release of the film - The Bucket List
The idea is that if we write things down, we’re more likely to achieve our goals. And if that appeals to you, you should check out these amazing bucket list ideas and resources.
47 Amazing Bucket List Ideas
1. How To Create And Manage Your “Bucket List” Before You Kick: 8 Great tips by Tatsuya Nakagawi for creating and managing a meaningful bucket list.
2. The Best Wildlife Experiences: If seeing amazing wildlife, is an important part of your bucket list, World Reviewer shares the top 10 wildlife experiences in the world.
3. Free Resources For Learning A Foreign Language: If learning a foreign language is your idea of fun, Brave New Traveller have put together 8 free resources for learning a foreign language.
4. Unconventional Money Saving Tips: If you need to save money to fund some of the items on your bucket list, JD at Get Rich Slowly offers 10 uncoventional money saving tips and ideas.
5. Get Famous: If achieving fame is going to be a part of your bucket list, check out 10 Ways To Get Famous by Michael Aaron Gallagher, of StayFamous.net.
6. Spiritual Experiences: If Spiritual experiences are important to you, check out International Spiritual experiences for information on spiritual experiences throughout the world.
7. The Most Famous Mountains To Climb Before You Die: If you want to get a few mountains under your belt, before you kick the bucket, choose from the best on Forbes Traveller.
8. The Life List Of The World’s Greatest Goal Achiever: John Goddard made a list of 127 things he wanted to do before he died, when he was only 15. He has now achieved most of them. You can check out his list here, to get some bucket list ideas.
9. The 7 Wonders Of The World: If you want to include visits to some of the Seven Wonders of the World on your bucket list - check out these images on National Geographic. The ancient 7 wonders and the new 7 wonders are included.
10. The Best Museums in The World: Want to include visits to some of the World’s best museums in your bucket list? Then check out the ten best museums in the World.
11. The World’s Best Festivals: If you want to visit one or two great festivals before you die, Rough Guides have put together the top 10 World Festivals. From the Phillipines to Glastonbury, there’s sure to be one that appeals to you.
12. Top Ten Concert Halls: From the Sydney Opera House to Walt Disney’s Concert Hall in Los Angeles, you’re sure to find one that you’d love to visit.
13. Creating A Bucket List - 100 Things To Do Before You Die: The title of this massive Squidoo lens by Marelisa Fabrega is misleading. She is constantly adding Bucket List ideas to her lens and there’s sure to be some to inspire you. Currently, Marelisa has 360 Bucket List Ideas including sporting activities, adventures, travel, learning and hitting the big time.
14. Break A World Record: If breaking a world record is something you’d like to add to your bucket list, browse exisiting world records in the Guinness Book Of World Records and get some ideas on how you can become a record breaker.
15. The Olympic Games: Is watching, or participating in some of the events at the Olympic Games something you want to do before you kick the bucket? Check out details of the next Olympic Games in Vancouver in just over 400 days time and details of more future Olympic events at the official site.
16. Find A Hobby: If starting a new hobby is something you’d like to add to your bucket list - FindMeAHobby.com has hundreds of great hobby ideas.
17. Become a Spy: If you fancy yourself as a spy, check out how to do it and the benefits and drawback of being a spy, before you add it to your bucket list.
18. The Best Books Ever: If reading some of the best books ever, will be included in your bucket list, check out some of the following lists to help find what you’re looking for: The Big Read - The BBC shares reader nominations of the best books ever. The Lord of the Rings comes out top; The Observer’s 100 Greatest Novels of All Time; 100 Classic Novels; The New Classics 1983 to 2008.
19. American Road Trips 101: If taking a great American Road Trip is going to be included in your bucket list, American Road Trips 101, is a great planning resource.
20. Become An Internet Entrepreneur: Start your own online business and travel the world as you work.
21. Visit The Top Twenty Islands: If you have secret dreams of becoming a pirate, visit the top twenty islands in the world. The chosen islands are measured on the following criteria: activities, beaches, cultural sites, lodging, restaurants and scenery.
22. 107 Great Resources To Unleash The Entrepreneur Within You: If becoming a great entrepreneur is going to be included in your bucket list, you need to check out this massive resource, which I put together earlier this year.
23. Budget Travel Guide: If you’re including a lot of travel on your bucket list, this great budget travel guide by HoboTraveler will give you some great ideas for saving money on travel.
24. Top Ten Most Haunted: If the idea of bumping into a ghost excites you, a tour of the World’s Top Ten Most Haunted places wold be a great addition to your bucket list.
25. Go On A Cruise: If you want to add a dream cruise to your bucket list, Cruise Critic is a massive cruise resource, with cruise reviews and a huge discussion forum.
26. Join A Circus: If joining a circus is one of your bucket list ideas, check out this guide. It shows you how to pick and perfect a circus talent, go to circus school and get a job.
27. Dreams Of The Big Screen: Do you yearn for a career in Hollywood? Check out these ten tips to help you get your first Hollywood Job.
28. Live In Another Part Of The World: If living in another part of the world is going to be on your bucket list, check out some of these resources: Immigrating: Choosing Where To Go and Is This The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Dream?
29. Become An Amazing Writer: If becoming a great non-fiction writer or novelist is to feature on your bucket list, check out 43 Amazing Resources for Writers. You won’t be disappointed. The article was the most popular article on this blog in 2008.
30. The World’s 50 Best Walks: If you love walking you may want to add some of these great walks to your bucket list. The Times Online have featured the 50 best walks in the world from the UK to Costa Rica - complete with descriptions and difficulty guides.
31. Awesome Winter Sports: If you’re burning to add some great winter sports to your bucket list, check out the World’s Top Destinations for snow sports.
32. Become A Monk, Or A Nun: If becoming a monk or a nun sounds like a great bucket list idea, check out this great resource, which covers topics such as entering the buddhist path, ordination and how to support yourself.
33. Tour Europe On A Shoestring: Take a few months out and tour Europe without needing to rob a bank. There’s some great tips and ideas in this Lonely Planet forum.
34. Learn About The Stockmarket: If you want to add understanding the stockmarket to your bucket list, you could start with these 10 Stockmarket Investment Tips For Beginners.
35. Volunteer To Help In Other Countries: If you’d like to volunteer to help others and learn about their culture, check out United Planet. They have programs in 50 countries, which last between 1 week and a year.
36. Learn About Astronomy: If learning about astronomy is going to be an important part of your bucket list, you could begin with Astronomy for beginners, to discover things like the best equipment to use and what is worth seeing.
37. The Best Art Galleries In The World: If visiting the world’s best art galleries is worthy of a place on your list, make sure you choose the best. The Louvre in Paris and The Hermitage in Saint Petersburg are among the top ten on this list.
38. 99 Experiences Of A Life Well Lived: For more inspiration for your bucket list, check out Kelly Rigby’s awesome list which includes holding a spider or a snake, or buying a stranger a meal.
39. The Ten Best Rollercoasters On Earth: If you love rollercoasters, you might want to add a ride on the ten best rollercoasters on Earth to your bucket list.
40. Become Enlightened: If becoming enlightened is important to you, you might want to add it to your bucket list and begin with Enlightenment.net or Pathway To Happiness.
41. The Works Of A Classical Composer: If you’re adding becoming familiar with the complete works of a classical composer or two to your bucket list, check out this resource. It has info on great classical composers and complete lists of their works.
42. Complete The World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle: The world’s largest jigsaw puzzle, Life: The Great Challenge by Royce B McClure has 24000 pieces. If you like puzzles, completing this one could be a great challenge to add to your bucket list. But you’ll need plenty of space to do it, as it’s over 14 foot long.
43. Top 100 Movies: If you love movies, why not add watching the 100 greatest movies of all time, to your bucket list.
44. Become An Explorer: If you’re an explorer at heart, you could add one of the voyages of Christopher Columbus to your list. This resources lists the places he visited on each voyage.
45. Develop Your Psychic Ability: Everyone has the potential to become psychic. If this sounds like something you’d like to develop, check out this excellent guide on how to develop your psychic ability.
46. Grow Prize Winning Giants: If growing prize winning giant vegetables is something you’d want to add to your bucket list, check out this useful advice.
47. Become A Screenwriter: If you have a burning ambition to write an oscar winning film, discover how to become a screenwriter in ten easy steps.
Do you have your own bucket list, or are you thinking about starting one? Please share some of your bucket list ideas in the comments section.
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Image Credits
Patagonia Mountains: Douglas Fernandez
The Island Of Bali: Donald Man
Young Monks: Sukanto Debnath
Who Wants To Live Forever?
December 24, 2008
If you could live forever, in your earthly form, would you choose to do so? Robin of Lets Live Forever, is enthusiastic about the possibility that we could live forever. Her views are a breathe of fresh air, as she’s a scientist and they’re not renowned for their belief in things that haven’t yet been scientficially proven.
Now, scientists have made a film - What If? The Movie,which explores the amazing potential of the human mind and gives strength to the notion that we may be able to live for hundreds of years on this earth. And while I’m looking forward to watching the film, I don’t know whether I would want to live for hundreds of years in this physical form. But I love the idea that our minds have the capability to achieve far greater things.
And just for a bit of fun - I’ve been considering the pros and cons of being able to live forever:
The Pros Of Living Forever
No need to go through painful death and reincarnation.
We’d have more time to learn more and embrace the full potential of our minds.
History would be far more accurate, if folk who are still around had been there.
Being able to heal ourselves would cut back on the costs of expensive health care.
There’d be no grieving process to face, every time a loved one died.
There would be fewer lonely widowers.
Folk would be more genuine in their actions, as opposed to just scoring points to gain a spot in heaven.
We’d be able to get to know our ancestors intimately.
It would be easier to create family tree.
Women could become well established in their career, before taking a break to have children. If we could live until 300 years old, there’d be nothing to stop women putting off having kids until they were 100.
Cons Of Living Forever
The world could become over-run with people and it could wind up feeling more like a living hell. (this one was contributed by my son Joshua)
If only a few people decided to live forever, they may wind up being subject to unpleasant experiments. (another one from Joshua)
It could restrict essential learning experiences we’d get if our souls were reincarnated.
Boredom - some folk do little with their lives and spend much of their time being bored. Would it be useful to keep them alive for another 300 boring years?
Inbreeding - Some people re-marry two times, or more already. How many marriages would folk get through if they lived several hundred years - 20 plus? With numbers that high, there would be a bigger risk of intbreeding.
Potential risk of civil wars - Some folk are going to be pro - living hundreds of years and others will be dead against it. And once there’s a significant number of long lifers, the world will change for sure. If those changes are severe, many regular lifers could declare war on the long lifers, in the hope of wiping them out.
Huge pressure to change laws, by those who choose to live forever. Things like the copyright law - would need to be changed and retirement age would need to be increased dramatically. These changes would likely be opposed by those who didn’t want to live for hundreds of years.
Bigger socio-economic divide - there is already a huge divide between the poor and those who are better off, in most countries. Much of the time, the poor are just trying to keep their heads above water, so they are least likely to take advantage of the benefits of living forever.
Would you want to live forever? What other pros and cons do we need to consider, regarding living for hundreds of years?
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12 Life & Business Lessons From 2008
December 22, 2008
What life and business lessons did you learn this year? Writing a blog, participating in lively discussions and reading the work and ideas of others are great learning tools. And here’s twelve things about business & life, I’ve discovered this year.
1. You Can’t Achieve Success From Business Alone. If you focus completely on
your business, you won’t feel successful. A good work/life balance is essential. When I
began to realise that, I started to cover topics to help folk build the business and life
they wanted,instead of just writing about business.
2. Doing Work You Love Is More Important Than Money. I made the choice to give up a
business that was giving me no joy, in exchange for doing work I love. True - the financial
rewards come quicker if you’re employing other people. But it’s far more enjoyable to do
something you love. It pays off eventually and you’ll enjoy the journey more.
3. Spiritual Development Is Important. Life feels far more rewarding, if you work on your spiritual development. Things that have helped my spiritual development this year include guided meditation
4. Life Changing Books Are Still Being Published. And while I know that books that can
change your life are few and far between, there are some exceptions. One of those is A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle.
In addition to confirming some of my existing beliefs, I also learned some life changing stuff from A
New Earth, including how to recognise the ego and ignore it’s messages.
5. You Still Need A Newsletter If You Have A Blog. Initially I had a website on this
domain. But when I began blogging, I noticed that other bloggers who claimed to be
successful, didn’t have a newsletter. So, I ditched mine too - it was time consuming and
I figured it wasn’t important now I had a blog. But, I made more money with a lot less
traffic when I had a newsletter. So I’m re-introducing my newsletter for 2009. And I’ve
noticed that a lot of those bloggers who didn’t use newsletters are using them now too.
6. Involvement In Social Networking Is Important If You Have An Online Business.
It can take a bit of learning but becoming involved in one or two social networking sites
is definitely worthwhile. Twitter and StumbleUpon are great ones to try.
7. If You Listen Long Enough - Folk Will Talk. I used the same method for this blog,
as I used for my first online business. First, I created content, then I listened and
watched to see what visitors to the blog actually needed, before I created a product or
service. It took a lot of time and patience. But it does help you to come up with great
products and services that your visitors actually need.
8. You Can’t Make A Sundae From Meatballs. To bring an offline business online,
sometimes you have to change that business, if you want it to be a success. Seth Godin
explained this well in Meatball Sundae.
“After doing three sites and talking to hundreds of people, I know that SBI! is perfect for most small businesses. Actually, it’s the best. Look at me. I have gone from asphalt man, stuck in an old world business with no future, to “digital man” whose life knows no limits.”
~ Judd Burdon
Asphaltkingdom.com
9. If You Come Up With A Good Project Idea - Take Action As Soon As Possible.
A few months ago, I came up with an idea for a joint marketing project. But it got complicated and I
didn’t take action on it straight away. And in the meantime, a lot of people went off and
started their own projects and by the time I re-announced the project, far fewer people
were interested.
10. You Do Need To Use SEO If You Blog. When I began blogging, I read a lot of
stuff about not using SEO on your blog - you just needed great content and headlines.
So, despite using SEO on my websites, I didn’t bother using it on this blog for over a
year. The result was, I got a lot of irrelevant search results, when people were trying to
find me through the search engines. Since using SEO on this blog, I’m getting a lot more
traffic from people who are looking for what I’m offering.
11. Often You Can Help Folk More By Concentrating On The Positive. One of my plans for 2008 was to launch a website to help folk with PTSD. Then, I started to think, PTSD is just a label anyway. What about helping other folk improve their lives too? I eventually realized that as I managed to recover from PTSD by focusing on the positive, as opposed to the disease - there would be little use in starting a site that focused on PTSD, or any other illness. And as I now write about business and life on here - there’s no need for a seperate website.
12. Lots Of Business Owners Dislike Marketing - I’ve discovered that many business owners seem averse to marketing, in a way that some kids dislike vegetables. If I write a post with marketing in the title, I get far fewer page views than I do if I disguise the vegetables with title words like make money, or get traffic.
This is a bugger, as marketing is more important to your business than your product or service. So my challenge for 2009, is to get small business owners to love marketing and show them how to set up a simple marketing campaign that brings them amazing results.
How Do You React When People Are Mean?
December 21, 2008
Most of us have dealt with mean people at some point. Sometimes it’s easy to work out their reasons for being unkind to you. Other times, it feels as though they gain some sort of pleasure from inflicting pain on others.
We all know that we can’t control the behaviour of other people. But we can control how we react to the mean behaviour of others and prevent their negativity from affecting us.
And I’ll be the first to admit, it can be a difficult thing to do sometimes, especially when we don’t understand the reason for their behaviour. But it’s easier if you keep this quote by Deepak Chopra in mind:
Do Deepak Chopra’s words resonate with you? When folk seem to be being unneccessarily mean to you, how do you deal with it?
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