100 ideas for your bucket list

Are you stuck in everything that’s urgent forgetting about everything that’s important? You may continue living like this until you die. Do you want to? Some people did not, and they came up with bucket lists.

A bucket list is something you wish to do in your life – big dreams, grand ambitions, small goals and something you are simply curious about. It may be something like learning to ride a bicycle or climbing mount Everest, or giving birth to 5 children.

As long as your heart asks for it, write it in your bucket list.

Kicking the bucket means dying, so your bucket list is everything you plan to do before you die.

People used to write bucket lists for life. In today’s fast-paced life we started writing lists for decades or 5-year time slots.

Let’s do it?

Choose what kind of bucket list you will write (for life, 30 things to do before you turn 30, 20 before 20)
Take a piece of paper and a pen
Write down YOUR OWN BUCKET LIST

If you are looking for inspiration, I give you 100 ideas below.

Include them into your list ONLY if you resonate with them!

Paint a painting
this was on my 30 before 30 bucket list
Live in 5 different places (cities, countries or even apartments)
Learn how to play a musical instrument
Go to 100 countries (if you list out the countries you want to go to, you are more likely to go there. You can also add the countries you have been to into your Couchsurfing account to inspire others)
Read 100 books
Smile to 10 strangers until they smile back to you
Go to an exotic country
Myanmar
Write a book (or a blog post, a story, a poem)
Start your own business
Learn a foreign language
Work for a big company
Go for an extreme sport (bungee or parachute jumping, white water rafting, snowboarding, etc)
Shave your head
I was so scared to shave my head I did not even write it down in the list
Eat a meal with your eyes closed, or in the dark
Kiss a stranger
Take a bath in sparkling wine
Live in a big metropolitan city (like New York, Shanghai, Bangkok)
Live in the countryside
Get a dog/cat
get a cat
Sing a song in public – especially if you are really shy to do it
Give a gift to someone who cannot afford it – if this person dreams about your gift, you will make their day so so special
Volunteer for a cause you care for
Do not speak a word for a whole day – a day of silence
Have sex on the airplane/ train/ car
Go to a silent meditation retreat
go to a silent meditation retreat
Start your own social media channel, share your knowledge with the world – Instagram, Youtube, Facebook group, etc
Write a song
Go to a naked beach
Celebrate something you don’t normally celebrate – the end of the workday, or the fact you said “no” when you did not want something, or the fact that you are alive
Bake a cake
bake a cake
Write a song/poem for someone you love
Swim across a river/ lake
Learn how to do a headstand/ handstand
learn how to do headstand
Perform in a play – it can be amateur theatre or even improvisation theatre
Laugh for 10 minutes right after waking up one day
Go to a city/village you don’t know and spend a day wandering around there
Go on as many dates in one day as you can arrange
Build something/ create something
Go trekking and sleep in a tent
go trekking and sleep in a tent
Climb a mountain
Organise your family reunion
Plant a tree/ flower/ garden
Dress up as a beggar, wander around town and see how people react
Learn how to give a massage
Go to a cave
go to a cave
Take part in a self-development course/ seminar
Study Non-violent communication
Write a letter to your future self (open it in 10-20-30 years)
Go to a tea ceremony
take part in a tea ceremony
Have a baby/ two babies/ five babies / adopt a child
Run in a marathon/ half-marathon/ Color run
take part in a Color run in your city
Go to a concert of your favourite band
Switch off your phone for a week and go offline – personal digital detox
Spend a sleepless night under the starts
Try psychedelics – magic mushrooms or sacred plants like ayahuasca, san pedro etc.
Get a tattoo
get a tattoo
Make your own piece of clothing
Learn to cook an exotic dish
Have a real conversation with your parents – admit how grateful you are, and how much you love them
Drive a taxi/ uber
Don’t buy anything except for groceries for a whole month
Go to a music festival
Practice lucid dreaming
Draw a mandala
draw a mandala
Give something you really love away – your favourite thing to a friend who needs it more, or a big amount of money to charity
Buy something expensive
Sell something expensive
Live alone for some time
Give a public speech in front of many people
Buy a coffee/dinner to a stranger
buy a coffee for a stranger
Study abroad
Make something handmade – jewellery, furniture, pottery, etc
Go on vacation to tropical islands
go on vacation to tropical islands
Move to a new country
Clean up trash in your neighbourhood
Go hunting
Get a colon cleansing/ panchakarma (Indian body and mind cleansing procedure)
Fast for a week or two
Play a team sport
Go on a reading retreat – one week on your own and all the books you wanna read
go on a reading retreat
Run naked in a crowded street
Go to a kinky BDSM sex party
Walk barefoot in a city for a day
Make your own chocolate/ cheese/ ice-cream
make your own chocolate
Eat only raw foods for a week/month/ year
Buy a bouquet of flowers/ bucket of ice-cream and give it to everyone in the street
Eat something strange – crickets/ scorpio/ starfish/ smelly fermented fish/ bird nest
Hug a panda
Take part in a ceremony/ make your own ceremony
organize a ceremony
Learn a lesson from history – go to a concentration camp/ Hiroshima and Nagasaki or Chernobyl
Live in a commune – there are many new age communes and some of them welcome visitors
Write a letter to someone you let go of burn it
Discover a new species/ land/ phenomenon
Buy something you really like, even if you don’t need it
Become a digital nomad – travel the world and work on your laptop
travel the world and work on your laptop
Collect herbs and make your own tea
Go on a blind date
Hang yourself on the hooks from your skin (Ihor can tell you more about this)
hang on the hooks attached to your skin
Go free diving/ scuba diving
Meet a famous person you admire