Before I die, I want to ______

This is my bucket list.  What’s on yours?

1. Shave my face with a whaling harpoon
2. Become an Eagle Scout
3. Create a personal website
4. Publish a blog post on a major blog
5. Publish a magazine/journal article
6. Publish a book
7. Write a novel (for NaNoWriMo)
8. Publish a piece of music
9. Become very good at improvisation on the piano through deliberate practice
10. Write a professionally-commissioned piece of music
11. Write a symphony
12. Become fluent in a foreign language
13. Have a well-decorated trophy room
14. Start a successful business
15. Give a speech in front of 1,000 people (5 public speakings tips you won’t hear anywhere else)
16. Run a sub-5 mile
17. Run a marathon
18. Run a skyscraper stair-climbing event
19. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro (Read about climbing the tallest mountain in Africa here)
20. Climb Mt. Rainier (A guide to actually climbing a mountain actually)
21. Climb the Liberty Ridge route of Mt. Rainier
22. Climb Mt. McKinley
23. Take an extended pilgrimage in nature
24. Travel to Varanasi and Mumbai
25. See the Great Pyramids
26. Visit all seven continents
• Travel to South America
• Travel to Europe
• Travel to Asia
• Travel to Africa
• Travel to Australia
• Travel to Antarctica
27. Meet with Dee G. and Mauricio A. in Santorini, Greece in June 2014
28. Build a house abroad
29. Teach in a school abroad
30. Volunteer in an orphanage abroad
31. Learn to swing dance well
32. Learn to drive stick
33. Learn how to single-hand a sailboat
34. Learn to rock climb well
35. Learn Krav Maga
36. Skydive
37. See the pope
38. Teach Catholicism in a structured and meaningful way
39. Read the entire Bible
40. Get married
41. Have children
42. Receive a call from Matt R. on the agreed date– November 12, 2019

I’ll be writing about many of these in the months to come– both ones I’ve already done and ones I’m working on or thinking about.  Are there any in particular you want to hear about?  Let me know in the comments.

PS. By coincidence, this list has (used to have) 43 things on it.  It just so happens that 43things.com is a social network based on life goals.  If you like this blog, I recommend you check it out!  Alright, a merry Christmas to everyone!