Bucket list

You are asked by a little girl full of curiosity, “Could you please tell me what bucket list is?”

“Do you have one?”

Since you are blessed with a life, you want to live your life to the fullest. You deeply desire to be kind to people (Yes, including yourself!), to care for your family, to be a reliable friend, colleague, team player.

Here, you will learn (more) about bucket list, the reason of creating your own, and how to do so. Check out also the list of bucket lists which are extraordinarily inspiring, and over 350 ideas for your bucket list.

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What is bucket list?

A bucket list is a list where you include all the things you want to experience and do before you kick the bucket and leave this world.

Things that you want to experience include things that you want to see, listen to, touch, taste and feel in your body, mind and spirit.

Things you want to do include things you want to learn, receive, own, enjoy, give, create and contribute.

The term “bucket list” has been popularized since the movie The Bucket List made a debut in 2007. What is the movie about?

Two elder men of contrasting economic backgrounds became friends during their stays in a hospital after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. In UK between 2006-2008, only ~ a third of lung cancer patients survive to a year, making the survival of lung cancer is amongst the lowest of all cancers.

This is the story of two previously strangers brought together by the disease. The genius Carter who is a family man, a blue-collar mechanic, and a history lover, started to write a bucket list but soon discarded it upon learning that he has less than a year to live.

Fortunately, the discarded bucket list was discovered by the rich Cole, who is a curmudgeonly cultured loner and civet coffee lover. Cole added more things to do to the list, urged Carter to do everything on the list, and offered to finance the trip.

They jet-set their final months together as a pair of best buddies, doing exciting things (skydiving, riding on a motorbike on the Great Wall of China, sitting on the Great Egyptian Pyramids) and re-discovering life: love, beauty, and kindness.

If you have not watched the movie, please do so. I personally include The Bucket List in the Best Movies List (according to my perspective).

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Why do you want to create your own bucket list?
  1. Having a bucket list allows you to live a purpose-driven life.
  2. You can use your bucket list to define your values and design your life.
  3. Whenever you are happy, simply ticking or adding a few things into your bucket list can make you feel grateful.
  4. Having a bucket list is like having a travel map to ensure that you stay true to your inner voice, when you are faced with tremendous distractions.
  5. When you are experiencing challenges and setbacks, simply gazing at your life list give you power.
  6. Your bucket list is a blueprint of milestones, goals and targets. Sometimes someone may motivate you, but it is always healthy to be able to independently self-motivate yourself and your endeavors.
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How to create your own bucket list?

"A bucket list should not be full of impulsive stuff that we pick up as we go along through life. It shouldn't be like grabbing a chocolate bar off the display rack." ~ Tatsuya Nakagawa, the author of Overcoming Inventoritis: The Silent Killer of Innovation

Gently interview yourself. Look deeply into your heart. Search inside yourself.

What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of life to you?

"As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." ~ Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl

Everyone has a unique meaning and perspectives of life, though many times we can find similarities.

It is true that when our meanings of life align - even if just partially, it is easier for people to make deep connections and engage in relationships, like Carter and Cole did.  

Having similar yet unique meanings of life is just like how we share over 99.9% of DNA, but every human being is unique. Your mission is to discover and develop your own uniqueness, leave your voices and footprints.

The following questions can help you designing your bucket list:
  1. What are your biggest purposes and dreams?
  2. What do your childhood dreams really mean?
  3. What will you do if you have unlimited resources (time, money,relationships)?
  4. What would you like to say to and do for your loved ones?
  5. What are your talents? 
    "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." ~ Leo Buscaglia
  6. Whom would you like to meet?
  7. What would you like to learn?
  8. Whom would you like to learn from most?
  9. What places that you want so much to visit?
  10. What have you always wanted to do but have not done yet?
  11. What legacies would you like to leave to the world?
  12. How can achieving your dreams and goals benefit others?
  13. How can you give more joy to others?
  14. If tomorrow is your last day of living, what would you deeply wish to do?
  15. If you were going to leave our planet earth a year from today, what would you do differently?
  16. If you had three years to create something that change your family, your community, or the world, how would you begin?
  17. If you were forbidden from accruing vast material wealth, how would you live your life differently?

Each of us is connected in this universe. Often, some things in your bucket list overlap with others’.

When you are young, you may not have the privileges of experience. Learning from the experience of others through direct interactions, books, blogs, podcasts, talks, videos, talks and conferences can widen your horizon and create more possibilities in your life.

You can read ten thousands of books, travel ten thousands of li, and realize ten thousands of dreams. No limit!

The only limitation is you yourself, if you do not free yourself to take the necessary actions.

Therefore, release yourself. Allow your deepest and most sincere heart tells you what your purposes are.

Clarity on your purposes enables you to focus and act on them.

Like a scientist who pursues his or her curiosity in solving a problem of a question, you stand on the shoulder of giant. You refer to people who have designed their inspiring bucket lists. Some things will resonate with you.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Therefore, you must add only things that are meaningful to you into your bucket list. It is always good to prioritize.

Your bucket list needs not be static. Like life, your bucket list is ideally dynamic.

After you have achieved some things, you can add new things into your bucket list. Sometimes, as you travel in your life journey, you may have some significant or subtle changes in your life's values and attitudes. It is okay to eliminate some things from your bucket list.

Your bucket list can be for your own view only (private) or public. It is up to you, really!

Personally, I enjoy learning about the bucket lists of other people and derive joy from knowing that they dare to dream big and have worked hard to achieve their goals.

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Lists of bucket lists that I love (the list is growing …)
  1. 101 things to do before die of Alex Beauchamp (19740217-), once-a-tomboy youthful children-charmer
  2. Carefully considered and exciting goals of Blake Boles (1983-), a self-directed learning advocate and author of Better than College 
  3. The Boston startup bucket list
  4. Amanda Brown's bucket list, a writer /photographer / explorer / climber
  5. Science-flavored bucket list by Amber Bullingham (1989-)
  6. The Bucket List of Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson)
  7. 30 before 30 of Charity (1987-), a professional wedding photographer who loves India & Italy. 
  8. 15 before 15 of Shermeen Ching (19800527), a mother to Jonas (20100513) in Singapore
  9. Celestine Chua (198406-) who practices ignoring news in order to focus on her work  
  10. Summer bucket list of Amy Dooley, a frugal stay at home Mom  
  11. The bucket list of Phil Echols of 2 Words: Become Better 
  12. Evelyn Lim's of Abundance Tapestry
  13. Life list of Marelisa Fabrega, a lawyer, an entrepreneur and a voracious reader
  14. 9 things to do before you tie the knot (the bucket list for singles) by Molly Jasinski
  15. Bucket list of Jenny who became fluent in Spanish after backpacking South America for 5-months 
  16. Jing’s life list and 7 priorities
  17. Bucket list of Jen, a committed nurse
  18. The Project Lab's bucket list by Lucy, a UK Mum who enjoys and loves her life. 
  19. Bucket list of Ann McElhatton (1982-), a beach chair scientist 
  20. Bucket list of Nicole, an interior designer who originally hailed from Melbourne
  21. Life List of The Phoenix
  22. 30 before 30 of Ai Sakura (198405-), a working Mom
  23. Bucket list of Stacey, and engineer living in Kansas City, MO, USA.
  24. civil + structural engineering-flavored bucket list by Richard G. Weingardt whose recommendations include Eiffel Tower, Panama Canal, Chunnel, Sydney Opera House, Burj Khalifa, Three Gorges Dam, Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, Parthenon, Hoover Dam, the Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge. 
  25. Annette White's list of bucket lists; Annette is a freelance travel writer and a restaurant's owner in Northern California.
  26. fun-loving Bucket list of Jennifer Wong Hok / Jenn Woong (1990-)
  27. 333 life list of Yuliya
  28. creative and kind bucket list of Ziyyah Zelle (199?-), who is interested to learn Korean, Indonesian, and American Sign Language 

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What to include in your bucket lists? 

You can include anything. Don’t worry if others laugh at you, thinking that you are a great day-dreamer or a nut, as long as you never allow your inner judge inside think any less of yourself.

"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real." ~ Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

Some (overlapping) categories of things worth adding to your bucket lists:
  • agape love / charity
  • romantic love
  • family
  • relationship / people (including friends, colleagues, customers, bosses, heroes / heroines, the blessed, the less fortunate, everyone)
  • character
  • life
  • contribution / legacy
  • learning / talent / creative pursuits
  • skills
  • career / vocation
  • milestones / celebrations / festival / events
  • health & well-beings / sports
  • movies / music / books
  • hobbies
  • travel / adventure
  • nature / environment
  • spiritual wealth
  • income / material wealth / money
  • possessions / gadgets
  • fame
  • food
Examples please?

Over hundreds of things that people want to do in life …
  1. Love yourself
  2. Choose to be happy, frame your perspectives positively
  3. Keep a gratitude journal | Record at least a thing that you are grateful for today 
  4. Keep a journal | a photo diary 
  5. Know yourself (知己) | Figure out what deeply drives you
  6. Define your life values and philosophies

  7. "A man's character is his guardian divinity" ~ Heraclitus

  8. Outline your belief system 
  9. Set your ethical compass | Create your own 10 commandments
  10. Smile to at least 3 people daily
  11. Laugh more | Make others laugh
  12. Praise genuinely | Learn to accept compliment well
  13. Fall in love
  14. Decide to love, regardless of your emotional experiences
  15. Be loved
  16. Grow old with your loved one
  17. Go on a blind date, for singles
  18. Propose / renew your vows in a majestic place | a church / cathedral | the Eiffel Tower 
  19. Be happily married
  20. Be married again (for widow / widower)
  21. Keep my virginity until marriage
  22. a dream wedding : by the beach | by the garden | in the church | underwater
  23. Renew wedding vows
  24. Be a bridesmaid
  25. Forgive & forget past hurts, unhappiness
  26. Forgive yourself
  27. Forgive others
  28. Build meaningful relationships
  29. Heal broken relationships
  30. Acquire conflict resolution skills
  31. Stand up for yourself
  32. Tell your Dad and Mom “I love you”
  33. Treat your parents for special meals, once in a lifetime trip, or a simple pampering 
  34. Be a loving father / a mother | a grandfather / a grandmother | a great grandfather / a great grandmother
  35. Adopt a child
  36. See your children grow up and become independent
  37. Kiss the tiny toes of your babies
  38. Kiss the most beautiful girl / the most handsome guy in the world
  39. Hug someone regularly
  40. A family vacation
  41. A family reunion with all my siblings
  42. Attend a school reunion
  43. Keep in touch with your school friends
  44. Meet your heroes & heroines : statesmen / stateswomen | sport stars | artists | Nobel Laureates 
  45. Attend an inauguration of a president
  46. Make a positive difference to the world
  47. Make someone’s dream come true
  48. Help those in need
  49. Help those who cannot help you back
  50. Help a family in need
  51. Help a complete stranger for the good
  52. Don’t wait - but ask for help & support
  53. Learn at least a new thing well every year
  54. Learn how to balloon sculpt
  55. Read to little children
  56. Read to the blind
  57. Read at least a book a week
  58. Read n books yearly, n can be 20, 52, 100, up to you 
  59. Read over 100 books of classic literature
  60. Read The Harvard Classics by spending 15 minutes a day for a year & you get the elements of a Harvard liberal education for free!
  61. Memorize the Periodic Table of Elements through a song 
  62. Pull an all-nighter | Burn the midnight oil
  63. Complete an online course | over 40 MOOCs 
  64. Pursue a further study
  65. Earn a college degree
  66. Attend an Ivy League | a top 10 / 20 / 50 / 100 university
  67. Enrol yourself in a free Ivy League course online
  68. Earn a master degree
  69. Earn an MBA
  70. Pursue a DIY MBA : yes you can do it yourself! 
  71. Earn a PhD | serve as a professor
  72. Earn a MD | serve as a medical doctor / physician
  73. Earn a JD
  74. Run for an election
  75. Serve as a Justice of Peace to marry loving couples
  76. Pursue your passion in literature
  77. Write a love letter
  78. Write a heartfelt thank you letter
  79. Write more thank you notes
  80. Write a letter to the future | to your future generations | to the world     
  81. Write an article for newspapers | magazines | scientific / research journals e.g. Nature | Science | Harvard Business Review
  82. Write a poem
  83. Write a book
  84. Write a novel of romance | science fiction
  85. Write a manifesto
  86. Write your obituary
  87. Blog
  88. Create an infographic
  89. Post a photo a day
  90. Write & send a postcard : from every foreign country you have been to | to a Santa
  91. Send a message in a bottle
  92. Write codes | Learn programming
  93. Create computer games
  94. Embrace ITs
  95. Practise a no-computer-screen, no mobile-phone period 
  96. Play like children
  97. Play with children
  98. Do art projects
  99. Pursue your passion in arts
  100. Learn oil painting | paint a self-portrait
  101. Photograph a self-portrait
  102. Win a photography contest
  103. Create a time-lapse photography like Stan Chang did for magical Europe.
  104. Write a song
  105. Play a musical instrument : guitar, ukulele, drum, piano, violin
  106. Play in a band
  107. Sing with a band
  108. Learn to yodel
  109. Be a DJ / VJ for a night
  110. Dance : ballet | folk dancing | salsa | tango | ballroom dancing | belly dance | hip hop | Korean pop | zumba
  111. Busker on a city street
  112. Perform in front of an audience : sing, deliver a public talk
  113. Deliver a TED Talk
  114. Attend a concert / a play | @ Carnegie Hall
  115. Attend a Broadway musical | watch a musical in London
  116. Star in a Broadway play  
  117. Attend a Moulin Rouge show
  118. Sing at the top of your voice from the peak of a mountain
  119. Create a documentary of wildlife
  120. Watch a movie, n movies (n can be let say 100)
  121. Attend a movie premiere
  122. Attend an Academy Awards Ceremony | Cannes Film Festival
  123. Visit museums : The Smithsonians | Louvre | London Natural History Museum | American Natural History Museum | The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
  124. Pursue your passion in sciences
  125. Do scientific / engineering projects
  126. Pursue your passion in sports / martial arts
  127. Learn wushu / karate / taekwondo
  128. Learn meditation | qigong / taiqi (taichi) | reiki
  129. Enjoy Now & Here
  130. Participate in a spiritual retreat (meditation / religious camp)
  131. Spiritually grow, regardless if you believe in a religion or are an atheist
  132. Pray daily
  133. Pray in the Sistine Chapel, Candi Borobudur
  134. Read the scriptures daily
  135. Win a contest
  136. Win a lucky draw | lottery
  137. Win a competition
  138. Win a Nobel Prize | Pulitzer Prize | Fields Prize
  139. Deconstruct failures & learn from them
  140. Pursue more than one career / profession / vocation to build a unique body of work
  141. Create a new field of profession e.g. mathemusic as Vi Hart (1987-?) has done by combining her music training and love for maths 
  142. Do an apprenticeship with a master
  143. Master a craft e.g. carpentry | electricity | plumbing | culinary | baking | photography | videography | cinematography
  144. Be a chef | be a gourmet cook
  145. Publish a book of recipes
  146. Learn to sew
  147. Knit a scarf
  148. Be a fashion designer | design your own fashion & wear them | be your own model | walk a catwalk / a fashion runway e.g. @ ARC Singapore
  149. Do internship | Intern @ a startup | Intern @ a Fortune 500 company
  150. Join a fast-moving business / innovation team
  151. Make a life-changing invention / innovation
  152. Discover a new species
  153. Ask for a raise / promotion
  154. Offer your products / services free
  155. Sell your products / services | hone your sales skills
  156. Do a job that you love | Love your job
  157. Work from home
  158. Start a business | be an entrepreneur
  159. Be your own boss
  160. Define your niche e.g. a chef of gluten-free meals
  161. Create jobs within a fun and supportive working environment
  162. Market yourself | build an online portfolio | tell your story in 1 minute (100 words), 5 minutes (600 words) | 10 minutes (1000-1250 words) | 1 hour (7000 words)
  163. Appear in the mass media : the front page of a newspaper | the cover of a fashion magazine | a guest show on the radio | TV show
  164. Set up multiple income streams 
  165. Earn $n a year, a lifetime; n can be $1million, $1billion or more
  166. Be a millionaire
  167. Achieve financial freedom
  168. Invest in yourself | people | startups | stocks | commodities | properties | gold
  169. Save money $
  170. Prepare a will
  171. Be debt free
  172. Lend money through Kiva
  173. Retire
  174. Multiple mini retirements throughout life
  175. Own a perfect black suit | a property | a car | a SUV | a yacht | a Steinway piano | a music studio | an art collection
  176. Live frugally
  177. Embrace sustainable ways of living
  178. Recycle
  179. Donate to abused / orphaned children | an animal shelter | an environmental cause 
  180. Donate $
  181. Donate 80% of your material wealth
  182. Donate blood
  183. Donate hair to Locks for Love 
  184. Donate organs 
  185. Establish a charity trust / foundation
  186. Pay it forward
  187. Give gifts anonymously
  188. Give surprise gifts
  189. Visit an elderly person
  190. Mentor / tutor / teach others
  191. Teach a course
  192. Lead a course / workshop
  193. Volunteer, do charity work | regularly
  194. Volunteer 1000 hours
  195. Be a boy / girl scout leader
  196. Be a Santa to a needy family
  197. Save someone’s life
  198. Deliver a newborn | help deliver a baby | see a birth
  199. Be a rescuer | learn first aid skills | Be a lifeguard
  200. Be a bodyguard
  201. Befriend a stranger
  202. Plan events
  203. Organize a party
  204. Organize a conference
  205. Organize a ball
  206. Learn how to apply make-up for yourself | others | brides
  207. Have long | short | straight | curly hair
  208. Create a nice hair bun
  209. Shave your head bald in support of cancer patient
  210. Live by the ocean
  211. Live in a barn | a caravan | a treehouse | a yurt
  212. Live in a big city
  213. Live in a small city e.g. college town
  214. Create a time capsule
  215. Be a time traveler
  216. Travel to the past through ancient poems
  217. Travel the world including the Grand Tour of Europe | American Dreams | exotic Asia & Africa
  218. Visit every continent
  219. Travel to n countries, n can be your age, 30, 40, 50, 100, or more! 
  220. Visit all provinces of China
  221. Visit 50 states of US
  222. See the Seven Wonders of the World
  223. Have an unforgettable adventure
  224. Pilgrimage
  225. Travel to the country of my predecessors
  226. Explore Antarctica
  227. Explore the Galapagos Islands
  228. Travel with a lover 
  229. Enjoy a luxury cruise vacation
  230. Visit Tanzania and study chimpanzees with Jane Goodall
  231. Travel into the space 
  232. Perform scientific studies at the outer space
  233. Be a scientist
  234. Be an astronaut
  235. Visit national parks : Yellowstone | Grand Canyon
  236. Visit Palm Jumeirah
  237. Experience magical Disneyland / Walt Disney Worlds
  238. Visit a theme park
  239. Ride a carousel
  240. Kiss at top of the Eiffel Tower
  241. Kiss at the top of a Ferris wheel | London Eye | Singapore Flyer
  242. Kiss in the rain passionately
  243. Kiss under a cherry blossom tree
  244. A road trip: Route 66 | Melbourne to Cairn | Amalfi Coast, Italy 
  245. Backpack trip
  246. Be multilingual / Learn a new language
  247. Learn sign language
  248. be in your ideal weight
  249. Age gracefully
  250. Quit smoking
  251. Exercise daily
  252. Practice a 3-minute eye balls exercise daily that may help preventing / alleviating eye problems such as dry eyes, myopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, glaucoma
  253. Join a gym | Go to the gym regularly
  254. Practice gymnastics
  255. Meditate anywhere | in a Buddhist monastery 
  256. Practice yoga | pilate
  257. Do a bridge pose of yoga
  258. Stand on a hand
  259. Execute a somersault
  260. Experience a body massage | a foot reflexology | a manicure | a pedicure
  261. Get a tattoo
  262. Do a half-marathon / marathon
  263. Do a triathlon
  264. Attend a Summer / Winter Olympics
  265. Carry the Olympic torch
  266. Join a cheer team
  267. Watch a football / soccer match in a stadium of your favorite team | at a World Cup
  268. Zorbing
  269. Witness a volcano eruption
  270. Go on safari
  271. See orang utan in Borneo
  272. Visit a farm | milk a cow | collect eggs
  273. Sandboarding
  274. Surf | Windsurf @ Bali 
  275. Scuba dive @ the Great Barrier Reef / Sulawesi / the Bahamas / the southern Red Sea. 
  276. Appreciate beautiful tropical fish
  277. Snorkel
  278. See a coral reef
  279. Skydive like Amruta Deore did

  280. ServicefromHeart bucket list 350 ideas skydiving sky dive

  281. Air walk / wing walk
  282. Edge walk at CN Tower Toronto, the tallest free standing building in the Western Hemisphere as of 2014
  283. BASE jumping | Cliff jumping
  284. Skiiing
  285. Heli skiing
  286. Snowboarding
  287. ice skate | iceskating in the costume of your favorite hero / heroine
  288. Snowshoeing
  289. Build a snowman
  290. Soak in a hot spring in Iceland | Japan
  291. Bath in a mud
  292. Bungee jump
  293. Zipline / flying fox
  294. Handglide
  295. Paraglide
  296. Fly in a hot air balloon | attend the hot air balloon races in Albuquerque
  297. Fly a kite as inspired from the movie The Kite Runner
  298. Fly an airplane / a glider | be a pilot
  299. Fly in a fighter jet
  300. Fly business class | Fly first class 
  301. Fly a solar-powered airplane
  302. Attend an air show

  303. ServicefromHeart bucket list 350 ideas ride a train Xian Shanghai

  304. Ride a train : Trans Siberia | Rocky Mountaineer Train | the Orient Express from Venice to London
  305. Ride a MRT in Singapore | a MTR in Hong Kong
  306. Ride a tram in Lisbon
  307. Ride a cable car in San Francisco
  308. Ride a horse / a pony
  309. Learn archery
  310. Ride a camel
  311. Visit the pyramids in Egypt ~ the survivor of the Ancient Seven Wonders of the World compiled in 225 BC by Greek engineer Philo of Byzantium (aka Philo Mechanicus)
  312. Travel the ancient Silk Road 
  313. Ride an elephant
  314. Ride a husky sled
  315. Ride a helicopter
  316. Ride a seaplane
  317. Ride a bike along Cuillin Ridgeline, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
  318. Ride a Harley Davidson
  319. Learn to drive a car
  320. Drive a Formula 1 car
  321. Drive / Ride a luxurious car : Ferrari / Porsche / Lamborghini
  322. Drive a go-kart
  323. Ride in a limousine
  324. Ride in a bus | Sit at the front seat of a double decker
  325. Do white water rafting
  326. Row a boat
  327. Canoe
  328. Kayak
  329. Visit travertine lakes of Jiuzhaigou China | Plitvice Croatia
  330. Ride in a gondola in Venice
  331. Punting along the River Cambridge
  332. Swim in the ocean
  333. Swim in the winter | do a polar plunge at sub-temperature
  334. Swim with the dolphins / giant turtles 
  335. Swim with the sharks at the Great Barrier Reef
  336. Watch whales
  337. Dive with sharks
  338. Ride roller coasters | ride every US major roller coasters
  339. Catch fireflies
  340. Camp in the forest / jungle
  341. Enjoy a picnic by the garden / seaside / mountain top
  342. Find the end of a rainbow | Catch a rainbow near waterfall | shower in a waterfall 
  343. Let Niagara Falls make you wet
  344. Glacier hiking in Alaska
  345. Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru
  346. Climb a mountain : Mt Everest | the Heavenly Stairs of the Mt Huashan Plank Trail
  347. Trek with Sherpas in Himalaya
  348. Visit Bhutan, reportedly one of the happiest countries on Earth
  349. Rock climbing
  350. Climb to the top of a lighthouse
  351. Climb to domes e.g. the dome of St Peter’s Basilica, St Paul’s Cathedral London
  352. Climb the Great Wall of China
  353. Appreciate simple / glorious sunrises & sunsets
  354. See Northern Light / Southern Light e.g. @ Hotel Igloo Village Kakslauttanen, Finland



  355. See a comet



  356. Stargaze at at El Teide (Spain's highest mountain). Remember the nursery lullaby Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? 
  357. See Milky Way e.g. @ Minamiboso (Japan) 
  358. Sleep under the star
  359. Cherish spring | See and smell blooming flowers : cherry blossoms / sakura |  daffodils | lavenders | magnolia | sunflowers | tulips | wisteria

  360. ServicefromHeart bucket list 350 ideas wisteria magnolia daffodil spring blossom

  361. Cherish autumn ~ an artist's palette of colors
  362. Plant a tree
  363. Have a mini indoor garden in a glass container (terrarium)
  364. Nurture your own garden | Grow & harvest an edible garden of vegetables / herbs
  365. Grow bonsai trees
  366. Grow a flower garden
  367. Grow your own vegetables
  368. Care for a pet
  369. Raise human beings : experience the joy of nurturing a baby, a toddler, a child, a teen, a young adult
  370. Brew your own beer 
  371. Drink straight out of barrel
  372. Drink Guinness in a pub in Ireland
  373. Make your own wine
  374. Drink ice wine
  375. Learn wine tasting
  376. Drink less alcohol
  377. Abstain from alcohol
  378. Drink less caffeine
  379. Drink human breast milk | camel milk
  380. Detox | go on a n-day juice fast (n can be 7, 10, 14, 21)
  381. Eat less meat
  382. Be a vegetarian
  383. Try different worldwide cuisines : Indonesian | Thai | Vietnamese | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Indian | French | Italian | Spanish | Ethiopian
  384. Appreciate diverse vegetables : Limnocharis flava genjer | Diplazium esculentum pakis
  385. Appreciate diverse fruits : durian | pink guava | strawberries | blueberries
  386. Appreciate seafood
  387. Eat caviar
  388. Eat escargot
  389. Eat gelato
  390. Learn how to use chopsticks ~ delicate extensions of human fingers
  391. Sleep on the grass
  392. Sleep on the sandy beach
  393. Sleep in a hammock
  394. Sleep in a castle
  395. Sleep in an igloo
  396. Sleep more
  397. Sleep less
  398. Fall asleep in the arm of your loved one
  399. Wake up by 6am daily
  400. Celebrate New Years Eve in Times Square
  401. Celebrate Lunar New Year in China 
  402. Participate in a Dragon Festival in China
  403. Celebrate a white Christmas
  404. Celebrate a birthday by traveling
  405. Celebrate a birthday by doing good to others : visit and help an orphanage | a hospice
  406. Celebrate a Valentine by enjoying home-cooked meals | home-baked cakes / desserts
  407. Join La Tomatina ~ the biggest food fight in the world
  408. Tell at least n number of people about your bucket list. n can be 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 … Spread your enthusiasm.
  409. Live meaningfully, happily, healthily until you are over a century | 120 years old | 150 years old
Review your bucket list regularly.

If you feel overwhelmed, perhaps you need to subtract and prioritize what your most important things (MITs) are.

May you be blessed with a kind heart, a healthy body, a sharp mind and never say die spirit!

May your life be always fun & fruitful!

With love
ServicefromHeart
Summer 2014

Last updated 20140914

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