The 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 (4/7 completed – S. America, N. America, Asia & Europe)

Cook from scratch on all the continents (4/7 completed – S. America, N. America, Asia & Europe)

Learn new languages (5/many – English, Marathi, Hindi, Sanskrit, Deutsch and Spanish (Chile))

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 (2/7 – S. America, 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

Watch Chelsea play and win a final match. Buy season tickets.

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

Learn to whistle with my fingers

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!)

 

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