Life List

MISC ADVENTURE

Restore an old muscle car | Invent something | Pilot a plane | Have a working ranch (with horses) | Go on a silent retreat | Bungee jump | Drive a professional race car on a track | Hunt for my food | Go parasailing | Build Caroline a rocking chair | Attend a Hollywood movie premiere | Tell stories all night long on someone’s porch | Take a helicopter ride over a major city | Go sky diving | Take a limo for no special reason | Build Miles a treehouse | Buy nothing (besides food) for 6 months | March on Washington | Bet on a winning horse

PHYSICAL FEATS

Fight in a boxing match (in progress) | Run a 5K (in progress) | Run a half-marathon | Run a marathon | Climb Mount Kilimanjaro | Walk the Camino de Santiago

EDUCATIONAL FEATS

Learn conversational French | Learn conversational Spanish | Learn to sail | Take an improv class | Learn graphic design (in progress) | Get a PhD | Learn to cook  | Learn to whittle | Learn to code

PROFESSIONAL FEATS

Become a CEO | Speak at a TED conference | Own a coffee house | Hold political office | Teach a college course | Start a million dollar company

STORYTELLING

Write a memoir (in progress) | Write a novel | Write a novel in Paris | Write for McSweeney’s | Write for the New Yorker | Tell a story for The Moth Radio Hour | Tell a story for This American Life

ARTISTIC & MUSICAL

Do a studio photography shoot | Design my own menswear line | Learn to play the banjo | Release an album | Play a sold out stadium | Act in a movie | Have my own art studio | Paint a beautiful painting | Learn to play piano | Sketch every day for 30 days | Learn to play the drums

LIFE WINS

Be invited to the White House | Meet Nelson Mandela | Meet Desmond Tutu | Be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

TRAVEL

Visit the Great Wall | Drive a convertible down Route 66 | Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef | Hike down the Grand Canyon (and back up) | Pick grapes in Tuscany | See the Colosseum | Vacation in Hawaii | Go on an African safari | See the Parthenon | See Mount Rushmore | See the Taj Mahal | See the Pyramids | Visit a Scotch distillery (in Scotland) | See the Acropolis | See Stonehenge | See Easter Island | Sail around the Tierra del Fuego | See all 50 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming) | See all seven continents (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia)

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