A few of my favorite bloggers have made these lists, and they regularly cross things off of them. This list is inspired by Joel Runyon’s Impossible List from the Blog of Impossible Things.
Adventure/Travel
- White water rafting
- Hike the grand canyon
- Dive in the Great Barrier Reef
- Set foot in all 50 states (still need Hawaii, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Ohio)
- Set foot on all 7 continents (still need Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica)
- Watch baby sea turtles hatch and swim into the ocean
- Live on the beach in San Diego for at least 3 months
- Be in Germany for Oktoberfest
- Backpack through Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Singapore
- Bungee jump off a bridge into a river or lake
- Live on the West Coast for a year
- Live on the East Coast for a year [Completed]
- Jump out of an airplane on purpose [Completed]
- Jump in the water with sharks on purpose [Completed]
- Cross country road trip [Completed]
- Win over $100 on a slot machine in Vegas [Completed]
- Win over $1,000 on a slot machine in Vegas [Completed - JACKPOT]
Business
- Become a published contributing writer in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and/or Inc.
- Hire my first full-time employee
- Build a team of 10 or more full-time employees to manage media accounts for Split Aces
- Launch a kick ass social media training product to bring in passive income (coming soon)!
- Be interviewed by Marie Forleo on MarieTV
- Attract 10,000 of the right kind of Twitter followers (not spammy porn robots)
- Attract 100,000 of the right kind of Twitter followers
- Become a mentor to other young female entrepreneurs to help them get started
- Get paid to give a lecture or speech
- Give a lecture or speech [completed]
- Make passive income through affiliate marketing [completed]
Fitness/Health
- Do one set of 10 pull ups [currently at 8]
- Do one handstand push up
- Do 50 push ups
- Do a muscle up
- Squat 200 lbs [currently at 165]
- Squat 300 lbs
- Learn to ballroom dance
- Do one set of 5 pull ups [Completed]
Food
- Drink a cappuccino in a cafe in Italy
- Eat a kebab in Turkey
- Eat a potato in Idaho
- Eat a fresh peach in Georgia
- Go wine tasting in Northern California
- Pick oranges in California [completed]
- Try chowder in both Portland, Maine and Seattle, Washington [completed]
Misc
- Wear a Yankee hat to Fenway Park
- Party in New Orleans for Mardi Gras
- Spend Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts and be dressed as a witch
- Be a part of a political protest
- Be an extra in a Hollywood production
- Become friends with a Spanish speaker who speaks zero English, and be able to communicate with them fluently in their language
- Go to an NHL game
- Sing on stage at an open mic night
- Roll the dice at the craps table for 30 minutes – hopefully making everyone a ton of money [Completed]
- Split wood with an ax [completed]
- Go to an NFL game [completed]
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