The Impossible List
Inspired by Joel Runyon’s Impossible List, I decided to create my own. This is not my bucket list. This is an Impossible List. In Joel’s words, “This list of impossible things contains all the things I ever thought I couldn’t do because it was “impossible.” The sort of things that I assumed the cool guys on TV only ever got to do.”
I will have a tab of this list on the top, which I will update as a complete the impossible tasks. I hope this inspires you to make you own list. Besides Joel, the other thing that inspired me to do this is the movie The Art of Flight. In Travis Rice’s words,
“We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It’s this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.”
Check out this cool trailer and then proceed to the list below:
The Impossible List
Life
Teach one person to slow down and enjoy life
Raise $100,000 for a cause
Change one person’s life for the better – physically, emotionally, financially or philosophically
Become friends with a personal hero
Travel
Live at least one month in every continent (3/7 completed – N. America, Asia & Europe)
Cook from scratch on all the continents (3/7 completed – N. America, Asia & Europe)
Learn new languages (3.5/many – English, Marathi, Hindi and some Deutsch)
Travel – preferably sail – for one year straight
Be a permanent resident of more than 3 countries / obtain a dual-citizenship
Own an apartment in – Chile, Japan, Norway, India, Croatia, New Zealand, Kenya, Montreal, and Indonesia.
Learn a folk-art from each continent – musical instrument, dance, etc
Bike across a country – motorcycle and bicycle
Do a cross-country road-trip
Fly the entire length and width of a country in 24 hrs (Nov. 2011: MCO-JFK-SFO; Dec. 2011: LAX-JFK-MCO)
Eat at all three Serendipity restaurants (2/3 – NYC & DC)
Writing/ Reading
Write one blog post every week (so far so good)
Publish an ebook on Kindle by the end of 2012
Publish a book
Read books in more than 5 languages (3/5 – English, Marathi, Hindi)
Read 100 books in a year (19 in 2011, 1 in 2012 so far – long way to go)
Help one person cultivate the habit of reading and writing regularly
Write a blog post from every continent (1/7 – N. America)
Write a blog post from beachside of all the major oceans (2/5 – Atlantic & Pacific)
Fitness
Run a 5K (done Nov. 2010)
Run a 10K (done Jan. 2011)
Run Tough Mudder – 12 miles + obstacles (Tampa – Dec. 3rd, 2011)
Run a half-marathon
Run a marathon
100 consecutive pull-ups (15 and struggling)
100 consecutive push-ups (55 and struggling)
Get a 6-pack (there’s light and the end of this tunnel)
Swim 10 laps of an Olympic size pool
Rock-climb more often
Climb in following places: Patagonia, Rinjani, Kilimanjaro, Utah, Yellowstone, Himalayas
Trek the entire length on Appalachian Trail – North bound from Georgia to Maine.
Fishing Buddha aka minimalism
Go without a cell phone for 2 months
Go without a computer at home for 6 months (computer-less since April, 2011)
Own less than 100 things
Go without internet for a month
Write hand-written letters to at least 5 people in 2012
Outdoors/Adrenalin
Skydive
Bungee jump
Snow board The Art of Flight style
Learn to surf
Learn to free-climb
Base jump preferably in a wing-suit
Learn to free-dive
Professional
Retire by 35
Start my own company by 28
Start my own company in another country besides UK, USA and india
Having a saving balance of $100,000
Donate that $100,000
Wake up every day and look forward to work
Miscellaneous
Be on TV – movie, TV show, sporting event
Attend a TED conference
Take pictures at the Kumbh Mela
Buy a Canon 5D Mark II
Attend Oktoberfest
Attend Running of the Bulls
Be part of a flashmob (October, 2011)
Rent a plane and fly along the NYC skyline at sunset (July, 2011)
Kiss a girl in NYC at midnight on new year’s eve
Kiss two girls in NYC at midnight on NYE (JUST KIDDING!)
