If you want to live a life of no regrets, a bucket list is a great tool to use. Instead of leaving your life experiences and accomplishments to chance, your bucket list helps you pick the things you’d like to do in your lifetime. Better still, it can help you create work-life harmony too by guiding you to proactively choose list items that will enrich specific areas of your life.
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With a list to work from, you’ll never be left wondering how best to use your time. Instead, you can make your way through your list. While it’s good to be spontaneous, it’s also good to get things scheduled and planned in. Your bucket list will empower you to do that.
For now and for your life.
Remember, your Bucket List isn’t just a list of things to do before you die! Giving yourself such an open time window makes it easy to procrastinate and put things off for later.
Sure, it’s a smart idea to put together a master bucket list that contains everything you’d like to do in your lifetime, but also create shorter lists with closer deadlines. For example:
- Create a six-month Bucket List using the template inside your BestSelf Planneror Self Journal.
- Make a list of things to do before your next milestone birthday.
- List out targets you’ll hit within the next five or ten years.
Take this spilt-up approach, and there’s a good chance you’ll do even more incredible things over the course of your life.
And if you’re looking for ideas to get you excited, we’ve got covered. Check out the list below. It’s packed with 103 bucket list ideas split across seven different life categories.
Imagine how full, fulfilling, and rewarding your life would be if you checked off all of these!
HEALTH & FITNESS
1. Learn to dive off the top board
2. Run a marathon
3. Enter a triathlon
4. Go open water swimming
5. Attend a global sporting event
6. Do a Color Run
7. Complete a Tough Mudder
8. Ride on a tandem
9. Grow your own food
WORK & CAREER
10. Launch a side hustle or a business
11. Publish a book
12. Have your 15 minutes of fame :)
13. Be a keynote speaker
14. Do a TED [or TEDx] Talk
15. Win an award
16. Attend a personal development seminar
17. Learn to touch-type
18. Start a podcast
SOCIAL & RELATIONSHIPS
19. Host a murder mystery party
20. Perfect your signature drink
21. Perfect your signature dish
22. Master a party trick
23. Raise money for charity
24. Give blood
25. Learn a foreign language
26. Reconnect with a person from your past
27. Have the conversation you’ve been putting off
28. Go on a police ride-along
29. Throw someone a surprise party
30. Do a random act of kindness
31. Kiss in the rain
32. Write a love song for someone special
MINDFULNESS
33. Learn how to meditate
34. Attend a silent retreat
35. Learn Qigong, yoga, or taichi
36. Write a letter to your younger self
37. Have a full body massage
38. Start a journaling practice for 90 consecutive days
39. Attend a class to learn something new
40. Start a vlog and record your feelings to the camera
41. Choose a pet plant and keep it near your desk
42. Make a scrapbook of your favorite memories
43. Eat a meal in silence to take in the sounds and sights
44. Make a list of things you love about yourself
45. Watch a sunrise/sunset
46. Forgive someone or yourself for something
47. Go outside for a walk with no technology, just listen to nature
48. Read a book a month
49. Have a playdate with shelter animals
50. Learn how to meditate
51. Learn to use a pottery wheel
FINANCE
52. Become debt-free
53. Create a passive income stream
54. Make your will
55. Build a rainy day fund
56. Set up a monthly savings plan for a long-term asset and acquire it!
57. Audit all your expenses and remove what’s not necessary
58. Make a down payment on your first home
59. Negotiate for a raise
60. Create a scholarship
61. Make a large purchase with cash
62. Go a month without spending money (excluding mandatory payments)
63. Pay cash for a car
64. Pay off your credit card
HOME & FAMILY
65. Create a family tree
66. Take a vacation with all the generations of your family
67. Go on a road trip together
68. Own your dream home
69. Capture your parents’ life story in a book
70. Visit the place where your parents or grandparents were born
71. Create a family bucket list with your children and tick things off
72. Find out the story of how your parents and grandparents met
73. Take a family bike ride
74. Create a new family tradition
75. Adopt a dog or cat
76. Share your favorite recipes with others
77. Give your kids a “yes” day
FUN
78. Do a parachute jump
79. Swim with dolphins
80. Go on a cruise
81. Sleep under the stars
82. Climb a mountain
83. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
84. Eat at a Michelin Star restaurant
85. See the Pyramids
86. Trek the Inca Trail
87. Practice yoga in India
88. Go white-water rafting
89. Travel somewhere solo
90. Swim naked
91. See your favorite band live
92. Learn to juggle
93. Ride across the desert on a camel
94. Go on a safari
95. Ride a jet ski
96. Visit the Great Wall of China
97. Test drive a fast car
98. Learn a musical instrument
99. Go wild camping
100. Take a train to a new city
101. Learn to surf
102. Go whale watching
103. Visit all 50 states
Create your bucket list today
What have you already checked off from the list above?
What Bucket List items would you add to this collection?
