Revising Life Goals...

I have a fairly extensive "bucket list" that I have been compiling for a few years now... However, I am completely revising the list to organize it differently and add more to it. In Mark Batterson's book  The Circle Maker he shares a list that is impressive to say the least, but is also incredibly inspiring. He has his list broken down into different categories, such as his experience goals, goals he wants to share with others, giving goals etc.. And, the more I have been thinking about it, the more I realized that so many of my goals are awesome, and I intend on keeping them, but I like his way of organizing them better. I like the idea of separating out the different goals based on areas of my life, which then actually has created more space and creativity for my goals.

So, while I am not done revising my current "before I die" list... I do think I have an idea of categories I want to use to separate them out into... (and likely add more things to each list) Experiences, giving, traveling, and personal..

This list is not complete, they are not in any particular order, and I have crossed through the ones I have already accomplished, but I am fairly confident these have more added to them later, but I think this is a good place to start:

Experiences:

Watch either the sunset or sunrise from each side of every ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern
Have a croissant at a French cafe 

Go wine tasting at a vineyard in Italy 

Ride an elephant

Go dog sledding
Go on a Safari in Africa
Scuba dive
Ride a camel in the desert
See the Pyramids at sunset 

Visit the church made entirely of bones

Drink whiskey at a pub in Ireland

Stay in the ice hotel

Go on a multi-day biking trip

Tube down a river

Visit ancient ruins

Stand on the Great Wall of China

Learn to roll in a kayak

Learn to snowboard, and ski
Learn to wakeboard and water ski
Drive a sports car over 100mph
Stand inside the Taj Mahal

Ride through the Panama Canal
Go Sky diving
Horseback ride through a coffee plantation

Taste 1,000 Fruits

Go to the Kentucky Derby
Go white water rafting

Live in a house with a window seat and wrap around porch
Tango in a milonga 

Go parasailing 
Go paragliding
Swim with bioluminescent plankton in Puerto Rico
Climb a volcano
Climb a glacier
Go rock climbing
Watch the sunrise or sunset over the Grand Canyon
Watch the Northern Lights 
See a shooting star 

Ring a church bell
Move somewhere new alone

Go on a cruise

Participate in a giant food fight

Climb a mountain
Ride a helicopter

Choose fifty favorite places to relax and connect with God

Attend the enitre summer Olympics  

Zip line through a canopy  

Drink lemonade on the front porch swing on warm summer night  

Have a big wedding celebration with everyone I love
Christen a boat

Be in Spain for running of the Bulls (but not participate)

See a glacier in Antarctica 
Learn to surf 

Learn to paddleboard  

Hike the Inca Trail 

Dive with Manta Rays in Hawaii  

Spend a night in a treehouse 

Swim with a whale  
See and/or climb Mt. Kilomanjaro and Mt. Everest
Snorkel the great barrier reef in Australia
Ride a gondola in Venice

Travel:

Set foot on all seven continents 

Set foot in all fifty states

Cross the Canadian border
See Cuba 
Straddle the equator on two continents

Take a road trip across the U.S.

Have an exceptional time in Greece

Attend Loy Krathong, the sky lantern festival in Thailand  

Take a month long vacation without computers    
Attend La Tomatina in Spain 

Live in another country for a year 
Go to Fiji  

Spend a summer touring Europe
Go to Hawaii with my family
Go to South America with my sister

Personal:

Make butterscotch from scratch (I have a recipe.. now I just need to get all the ingredients and do it!)
Build a house from start to finish

Get art in a gallery 

Attend a Black and White Ball

Grow vegetables in my own garden 
Be a published artist

Write a book or novel
Be conversational in five languages: 1. English 2. Spanish (this one comes and goes) 3. Sign-Language 4. Greek 5. German
Get my second degree black belt
Get a tattoo (I have two)

Do two pull ups
Go berry picking and make completely homemade pies
Own a very large dog 

Make my own perfume 

Organize a retreat
Learn all the Latin ballroom dances: Argentine Tango, Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Cha cha, Bachata, Rumba, Mambo, Bolero, Samba 
Start and run my own business

Form a workplace with people I love

Make my own list of the hundred best things to eat 

Go a day without speaking 

Plant a tiny orchard 
Run a 10k

Throw a block party

Shoot every major gun: Pistol, Shotgun, Rifle, Muzzleloader, Revolver

Start a fire without a match

Run a half marathon
Blog consistently for 10 years
Finish and publish "Facts of Life" 
Own a Beach house with friends

Giving/Finances:

Help someone get through college

Do something for someone they can never repay

Tithe my whole life
Start a non-profit or help run one
Buy stock on my own

Get in the habit of grand loving gestures 
Be debt free by 35

Use my work to improve lives

Remove money as a concern from my life
Gift 1 million dollars to missions (not tithing)
Help my family become debt free
Give people in ministry free vacations at the beach house

A lot of these actually go in a couple categories, but are best "housed" in the particular category they are in. And, as always, this is ever changing.. or rather, ever growing. I feel much better about this list now that it is separated out into categories instead of just a solid list... Many thanks to Mark Batterson and his book The Circle Maker for the inspiration to do it this way!