Classic:

• college
• marriage
• start mortgage
• children
• finish mortgage
• write my will

Physical:

• walk from DTLA to Venice Beach
• bike from LA to San Fransisco
• barcycle from LA to San Fransisco
• black belt
• get punched in the face
• bench-press my body-weight
• 30-day fast

Craftsmanship:

• create custom design of every basic home item
• invent a new instrument
• design a chair
• build an entire house from scratch

Career:

• teach a class
• financial independence
• $1M in the bank
• start a think-tank

Spiritual:

• sensory-deprivation tank
• 30-day silent retreat
• achieve ego-death

Random:

• learn APL
• drugs
• create a new sign for Nothing, AZ
• secretly landscape a stranger’s front-yard
• grow a garden
• magnet implants in fingers
• obtain a speedrun world-record
• go off-the-grid
• trick-or-treat as christmas carolers
• grow a handlebar mustache
• work as a night-shift janitor
• underground bunker
• live one month without a front-door
• ride a penny-farthing

Creative:

• play in a band
• publish a non-fiction book
• direct a full-length film
• perform a “variety show”
• publish an academic paper
• record a full-length album
• publish a fiction book
• perform with a live string accompaniment
• create a complete K-12 curriculum
• perform standup-comedy
• launch a video-game

Languages:

• learn Chinese
• learn Japanese
• learn Spanish

Places:

• Wudang, China
• Gunkajima, Japan

Tech:

• make a website
• prototype a hardware invention
• publish an app
• register a patent
• speak at Strange Loop
• create a programming language
• build an OS from scratch

Concerts:

• Joanna Newsom
• Björk

Moon-Shots:

• live in Switzerland
• buy my family’s old cabin
• perform at Coachella
• start a school
• cure sleep
• run for POTUS
• PhD

This list was inspired by Shane Snow’s To-Do List.