Big Life Goals: My Ultimate Life Bucket List (and why you should have one, too)

The legendary college football coach and analyst Lou Holtz once said that “If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.” 

Now, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably familiar with the message around the power of goal setting, and more specifically, movies like The Bucket List that underscore the importance of having goals-and especially a collection of one-day and some-day goals and dreams that you would like to accomplish at some point in your life. 

From extreme ideas like summiting Mount Everest, skydiving or backpacking California's Lost Coast, to more simple things like singing in the rain, taking a walk through a windy park, or staying home to watch a movie with a loved one, a great bucket list can add new meaning and excitement to everyday life.

Would you like some guidance and inspiration to set up your bucket list? Check out my guide, The Ultimate Life Bucket List and get started today. 

As more and more items are added to and checked off the list, excitement and motivation grow. Creating a bucket list can be fun and exciting, but most importantly, it can be inspirational.   

So don’t wait for that “perfect time” to begin. The reality is that it’s never too early get started on a list of incredible things to do before you die, and because life goes by so quickly, it's important to get as many amazing experiences checked off your list as soon as you can.  Says Annete White at the life list focused website Bucket List Journey, "Make your bucket list not because you are dying but because you want to live!

And that’s the point, isn’t it? 

And as an added bonus, in what scientists term the spill-over effect, when we make progress towards attaining our goals in one area of life, we raise our overall life satisfaction in other areas of life, as well.  By pushing the envelope in one area of life, by taking risks and seeking out adventure, you’ll not only become happier, you might just end up being fearless and unstoppable!

So for today, ask yourself what are some unforgettable adventures to be had before you die? What can make this a year one for the record books? 

So, what’s on your Ultimate Life Bucket List? 

For inspiration, check out my Ultimate Life Bucket List of goals that I committed to achieving below for inspiration! 

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PHYSIOLOGY: Overall Physical Health

• Keep body fat at 15%
• Eat vegetarian for one full year
• Swim out to sea and back for one mile
• Have a full run medical tests every five years, including blood and CT scans
• Get teacher certification for yoga
• Take a self-defense class 
• Run a 5k with my family 
• Remove excess sugar from my diet
• Do a 1-month cleanse
• Learn the perfect push-up
• Walk 20 minutes daily
• Run a marathon
• Hold a plank for 3 minutes
• Achieve 6-pack abs
• 15% body fat
• Eat vegetarian for a month
• Bench press my weight

PSYCHOLOGY: Mindset, Emotions and Feelings

• Be more courageous
• Meditate for 1 hour over 3 months
• Stop to express my feelings in conversations with loved ones
• Learn Tai-Chi
• Be remembered in a positive way after death; Know that you made a difference in someone else's life.
• Live each day fully, without regret
• Meditate 15 min daily for 3 months
• Spend 20 min outside daily
• Let go and practice forgiveness
• Eat vegetarian for a month
• Work with a coach
• Set boundaries for work
• Learn to say "no"
• Learn to say "yes"

EDUCATION AND GROWTH: Knowledge, Learning and Growth

• College degree
• Master’s degree
• Read 30 books a year
• Learn social media
• Learn how to build an online business
• Learn online marketing
• Learn one rock song every week on the guitar
• Perform live in a band

EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURE: Experiences From the Daily to the Extraordinary 

Travel

• Rome, Italy
• Paris, France
• London, England
• New Zealand
• India
• Bali
• Tahiti
• Turkey
• Morocco 
• Mexico 
• Kenya on safari
• Russia
• Thailand
• Greece

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Adventure:

• Live in a different country for a month or more
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• White water river rafting
• RV trip across US
• Disney World with my kids
• See world treasures
  • The Vatican
  • The Taj Majal
  • The Great Pyramids
  • Machu Pichu
  • Great Wall of China
• Fishing trip with family 
• Fly a glider
• Swim with dolphins
• Go to Olympics
• SCUBA dive certification
• Walk on fire
• Attend a Tony Robbins event
• Attend Brendan Burchard event
• Spread my father’s ashes at the Grand Tetons
• Climb Mount Whitney
• Learn guitar
• Guitar lessons
• Surf J-Bay
• Own vacation home in Hawaii
• See Rolling Stones live
• See a Broadway musical
• See the northern lights
• Go to the Superbowl
• Go to the world series
• Visit the Grand Canyon
• Visit every continent
• See a live volcano
• Christmas holiday in Finland
• Drive Highway 1 in a sports car through Big Sur
• Dive the Great Barrier Reef

PROFESSIONAL: Career and Livelihood

• Start a business
• Be self-employed
• Speak at corporate events
• Secure corporate clients
• Create website
• Work for a company that I love
• Love my profession
• Create a journal
• Write a book 
• Own a Mercedes
• BSS certification
• Certified High Performance Coach certification
• Securities certification
• Take professional quarterly retreats for three days
• Hire an assistant
• Declutter office; remodel
• Research other departments
• Build network
• Improve communication
• Improve collaboration
• Delegate more
• Research a competitor
• Attend a conference

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FINANCES: Money Management, Wealth and Finances

• Make $350k+ year
• Make $500k+ year
• $3M in real estate
• Put kids through college
• Retire with $20k month income from real estate investments
• Annually beat S&P returns actively trading in the stock market 
• Carry no personal debt outside of your mortgage
• Help our kids to buy their first houses
• Annually fund our kids Roth IRAs
• Improve FICO score
• Create a vacation fund
• Have a retirement plan
• Lower monthly bills
• Tithe 10% of income
• Create a scholarship fund
• Own a business
• Own real estate
• Fully fund work 401k

RELATIONSHIPS: Our Connections With Others 

• Regularly scheduled date nights with my wife once a week
• Regularly scheduled date nights with each of my daughters 
• Spend 30 days a year with my family
• One weekend getaway with my wife each quarter
• Two weeks getaway with my family each year
• Reconnect with 1 old friend every month this year
• Do something kind for a stranger
• Have at least one true best friend
• Make family dinner 2x per week
• Read four books on relationships: two on marriage and two on parenting
• Freely give support regardless of what you think
• Let go of judgement
• Secretly schedule the weekend together
• Call your best friend today
• Only speak positive about them in public
• Schedule an unforgettable adventure together

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SPIRITUALITY: Connection to Something Greater than Yourself

• Participate in bible study
• Participate in men's group
• Lead a men’s group through church
• Take family on trip to see holy sites
• Tithe 10% of my after-tax income
• Take an online course
• Lead a group study 
• Read a book on spirituality
• Find inner peace 
• Go on a retreat
• Experience a new service
• Read a book on theology
• Ask for spiritual guidance
• Visit a Buddhist monastery
• Read the entire Bible 
• Read the Koran
• Join a prayer group
• Attend midnight mass

CONTRIBUTIONS: Giving to Others, the Community and Society

• Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity
• Help build homes in Mexico
• Help feed the hungry on a holiday in hometown with my family 
• Sponsor a college scholarship for women in science or leadership
• Choose to walk
• Volunteer at a school
• Choose public transport 
• Limit or reduce your carbon footprint
• Be a mentor to someone 
• Buy a stranger's groceries
• Donate toys to kids
• Sponsor a child
• Start a disaster relief group
• Participate in a charity
• Host a fundraiser

CONCLUSION

So, there it is, my Ultimate Life Bucket List! Hopefully, you are more inspired than ever to keep track of your goals and to take steps to achieving them. Make a move to maximize the most incredible experiences life has to offer. 

So, what's at the top of your bucket list? Share below, like and follow!

I’d love to read them!

Would you like some guidance and inspiration to create or update your bucket list?

If you would like some additional guidance and inspiration in creating or updating your bucket list, check out my ULTIMATE LIFE BUCKET LIST WORKBOOK.  It's  a complete, step-by-step professional workbook designed to help you to plan and prepare for new adventures and get impressive results.

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Damien Vanderburg is a certified high performance coach with a focus on personal development, high price-point sales and serial entrepreneurship. Damien helps high performers to transform effectiveness, maximize potential and accelerate results. He is also the co-founder of Counterpoint Test Prep, a test prep and college app consulting company. 

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