Awesome Bucket List
Almost all the self help books that you read would suggest that you should have goals written down. Even throughout your life the teachers and the mentors push you to have some plans for life. And if you are the person who don’t follow such wisdom then I bet that your life would definitely have taught the importance of setting goals.
I had set my life goals (some of them childlike based on the then knowledge I had). After around 5 days of thinking and self assessment I was able to put together a comprehensive and practical bucket list. The idea behind my bucket list is that after 10-20 years from now when I reflect back, I should be able to see that I lead a beautiful life and kept my family happy. The items on my bucket list would keep me on track. My bucket list does not contain items which are impossible to achieve (like going to space). However, it contains some simple, some not so simple and some particularly difficult goals.
The list would also serve a resource for me to create shorter dreamlines or lifestyle goals of say 6-12 months and achieve them.
So here I go, The top 106 things I want To Have, To Do and To Be before I hit the bucket.
Things that I would Do and the Places I would like to Travel
- See the whole Star Wars movie series
- Do underwater (Scuba) diving and photographing underwater
- Watch Soccer World Cup Finals
- Watch World Cup Cricket Finals
- Shoot (Photograph) aerial view of a prominent monument
- Watch Formula One race
- Own latest full frame Canon DSLR
- Watch a Grand Slam tournament
- Meet Shahrukh Khan and shake hands with him (Seen him once from the crowd ;))
- Fire a real gun
- Paragliding/Skydiving
- Make a nude portfolio of a beautiful model
- Read the complete manual of my camera
- Go without watching TV for 365 days straight.(On the way to achieving it started 26th January 2012)
- Investing/saving atleast 30% of my Yearly income and continue it year after year
- Make a photographic calender and sell it
- Make US $10001 online
- Make an oil painting (I stopped making them after year 2001)
- Own a resort
- Start investing in Gold Exchange Traded Funds
- Acquire a sick Pharmaceutical company, turn it around, make it profitable and then sell it.
- Take a picture of wild elephant
- Do bungee jumping
- Watch the whole series of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT
- Drive a car at 100 kilometers per hour
- Watch Olympics
- Visit East Africa; Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda
- Visit Cameroon
- Visit Greece
- Visit Turkey
- Visit Iran Islamic Republic
- Visit The Russian Federation
- Visit Bulgaria
- Visit China
- Visit Germany
- Visit Thailand
- Visit Indonesia
- Visit Philippines
- Visit Vietnam
- Visit Cambodia
- Visit Nepal
- Visit Bhutan
- Visit Bali
- Visit Brazil and witness the Rio Carnival
- French Kiss my Wife on Eiffel Tower in France
- Visit Argentina
- Visit Kashmir and stay in a houseboat in Kashmir
- Visit Samarkand, Tashkent and Bukhara in Uzbekistan
- Visit Ukraine
- Visit Niagara Falls and make 5 stunning photos of it
- A Collage of 51 photos of my wife
- A Rs. 5 Lakh gold jewelry for my wife
- A balloon ride with my wife
- A Book authored by me and have it published
- A Volkswagen Beetle
- A 4 bedroom house
- A second and then a third house
- A Restaurant chain
- An iPhone
- An Omega Seamaster for me and my wife
- 10001 followers on twitter (till date only three twitter updates)
- 10001 subscribers on my blog
- Facebook fanpage with 10001 Likes (I don’t have a fanpage yet)
- Presence in Google Plus
- A self published photo book
- Zero credit card debt
- Get rid of student loan
- A small business with a turnover of Rs. 100 Crores (Rupees 1 billion)
- A trick photography e-book and sell it online
- Develop an iPhone/Android application and sell it
- Get an LED TV (or the latest technology TV existing)
- Get three backup copies of my photography data
- A gold chain and a ring
- Get a Tattoo
- A Chinese antique dinner set
- 100 YouTube videos with one video with a over 100001 view
- Own land out of India
- A Macintosh or Mac-book Air
- A film SLR Camera
- A Cross fountain pen and not lose it for atleast 2 Years
- Get published in National Geographic
- A Leica M series Rangefinder camera
- 5 useful MS Excel calculators to be downloaded from my website
- Invest in a painting of value
- Read Atlas Shrugged (I left it unfinished; I still have to find who John Galt is?)
- Get a gold ring for myself
- Reduce my weight and maintain it at 76 kilograms
- Going to gym for at least 21 days and then continue building my muscles
- Retire from active work at the age of 45
- I want to kill a certain someone; however, that would be illegal and so I’ll just spit on the person
- Plant a tree and make sure it grows and sustainable on its own
- Establish a photography school
- Learn Spanish
- Learn French
- Learn to Tango (I suck at dancing)
- Creating a well built premium theme for this blog in WordPress
- 30 minute movie with my DSLR
- Design a theme for this blog (don’t know coding) and sell it online
- Make 13 video episodes of my travel
- Get atleast one of my photograph published in a magazine
- Learn CSS
- Learn VBA for Excel and create a comprehensive financial model
- Automate processes for my professional photo-editing
- Make 2-d animation video
- Make Photoshop tutorials and sell it
- Build a website for a future product/event today
- The next 100 after I achieve the above 106