The other day, one of my best friends Brendon Mahoney of CrossFit San Mateo sent me an article posted by a favorite author of mine, Tim Ferriss. Check out the article HERE, but the gist of it was getting one of the founders of a show on MTV of all places called The Buried Life. The idea was that three friends would take some time off and travel around crossing as many things off their 100-things Bucket List (things they hopped to do before they die) as they could. And to add to it, every time they crossed one off their list, they would help someone they did not know achieve something off their list. Awesome! The article itself is about how these guys figured out how easy it actually was to get things done f you really want to. Highly motivating for sure, and it left me inspired to make a list of my own, along with apparently thousands of others who found these guys to be great muses. Mahoney had sent out this article to a few people, and asked us all to post up a few things we wanted, but I wanted to take it one step further, so, that’s what I’m doing here!
I am creating a 50-article Bucket List for myself that I will share with all of you at the end of this post. My goal will be to complete at least half of them in the next three years, and the ultimate goal would be to complete at least 100 of these wonderful, mostly lofty goals by the end of my life. I have no intention of challenging all of you to anything super grandiose, but I would like to get you all involved in some way. So, I ask all my readers to post 10 items you have always wanted to do at some point in your life. I don’t care if you think it’ll never happen, if you’re too busy or you can’t wrap your head around actually achieving it. Just write it down and post it up. You’ll see that on my list, there are a few things that seem pretty easy for me to achieve at some point, while others would either be extremely complicated, or extremely time consuming. But that’s the goal of these things. It is a list of all the things I’ve really wanted to do, no matter how big or small.
So, how do you write a Bucket List? It’s actually pretty easy if you are good at being honest with yourself, and have a decent sense of what you like and don’t like. Also, a key aspect to writing one of these lists is knowing that there are no real limits. If you’ve never hiked a trail before but want to climb Everest, put it on the list! If you really want to do something before you die, it does not matter if it seems impossible! This is the whole point of these things. What are you going to do with your life? Will you just succumb to whatever rules you have learned; settle with a life that is just “ok”? Or, will you step up and pursue the things you’ve always wanted? I know these questions can lead to tons of debate, and I would love to have that debate with all of you at any time. But right here, all I want is for all of you to take a few minutes, a few hours, a few days, whatever, to create a 10-item list!
Here’s mine:
· Compete in the CrossFit Games
· Finish an Ironman Triathlon
· Finish a 100-mile ultra-marathon
· Act in a decent-budget movie
· Host/star in my on TV show
· Spend 2+ weeks backpacking in Alaska and/or New Zealand
· Live at least 1 month with only nature as support
· Lift weights with Louie Simmons
· Climb Kilimanjaro
· Learn Spanish
· Build a house (cabin, legit tree house, etc.)
· Write a “best selling” book
· Get at least one gig as a fitness model
· Finish riding my bike across America
· Ride a motorcycle to the Southern tip of South America
· Base jump off one of the highest cliffs in the world
· Base jump/repel off one of the tallest building in the world
· Go skydiving
· Start a non-profit helping kids and their families get fit
· Get through Navy SEAL BUDS training
· Go 1+ week in complete silence, meditating with monks out in Tibet
· Run with the bulls in Spain
· Hang at a café in Cain, Spain
· Pilot a plane
· Ski and surf in the same day
· Hunt, catch, kill, prepare and eat a large animal
· Cook and prepare a meal for 100+ people
· Stop a major criminal from committing a major crime
· Squat 500, deadlift 600, snatch 275, clean and jerk 315
· Hold a legit 5-second Iron Cross
· Play drums on stage with a major band
· Have a drink with Johnny Depp
· Create a protein bar that sells over 1,000,000 in a year
· Get married to the girl of my dreams
· Hit a home run in a major league baseball stadium
· Swim the English Channel
· Roll with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, in Brazil
· Get my ass kicked
· Spend the night sleeping on the streets of NYC
· Wrestle an alligator
· Sing the National Anthem at a Major League game
· Learn how to break dance
· Shoot a bull’s-eye with a bow and arrow from100 meters
· Tour the country visiting gyms, promoting fitness and inspiring people
· Brand the name COURAGE
· Make my own baseball bat
· Drive a car over 150 MPH
· Raise $1,000,000 for charity
· Hang out with Seth Macfarlane
· Re-build and drive a 1967 Mustang
So, there are mine. What are yours?
Never Stop, GET FIT.
Josh Courage
I am creating a 50-article Bucket List for myself that I will share with all of you at the end of this post. My goal will be to complete at least half of them in the next three years, and the ultimate goal would be to complete at least 100 of these wonderful, mostly lofty goals by the end of my life. I have no intention of challenging all of you to anything super grandiose, but I would like to get you all involved in some way. So, I ask all my readers to post 10 items you have always wanted to do at some point in your life. I don’t care if you think it’ll never happen, if you’re too busy or you can’t wrap your head around actually achieving it. Just write it down and post it up. You’ll see that on my list, there are a few things that seem pretty easy for me to achieve at some point, while others would either be extremely complicated, or extremely time consuming. But that’s the goal of these things. It is a list of all the things I’ve really wanted to do, no matter how big or small.
So, how do you write a Bucket List? It’s actually pretty easy if you are good at being honest with yourself, and have a decent sense of what you like and don’t like. Also, a key aspect to writing one of these lists is knowing that there are no real limits. If you’ve never hiked a trail before but want to climb Everest, put it on the list! If you really want to do something before you die, it does not matter if it seems impossible! This is the whole point of these things. What are you going to do with your life? Will you just succumb to whatever rules you have learned; settle with a life that is just “ok”? Or, will you step up and pursue the things you’ve always wanted? I know these questions can lead to tons of debate, and I would love to have that debate with all of you at any time. But right here, all I want is for all of you to take a few minutes, a few hours, a few days, whatever, to create a 10-item list!
Here’s mine:
· Compete in the CrossFit Games
· Finish an Ironman Triathlon
· Finish a 100-mile ultra-marathon
· Act in a decent-budget movie
· Host/star in my on TV show
· Spend 2+ weeks backpacking in Alaska and/or New Zealand
· Live at least 1 month with only nature as support
· Lift weights with Louie Simmons
· Climb Kilimanjaro
· Learn Spanish
· Build a house (cabin, legit tree house, etc.)
· Write a “best selling” book
· Get at least one gig as a fitness model
· Finish riding my bike across America
· Ride a motorcycle to the Southern tip of South America
· Base jump off one of the highest cliffs in the world
· Base jump/repel off one of the tallest building in the world
· Go skydiving
· Start a non-profit helping kids and their families get fit
· Get through Navy SEAL BUDS training
· Go 1+ week in complete silence, meditating with monks out in Tibet
· Run with the bulls in Spain
· Hang at a café in Cain, Spain
· Pilot a plane
· Ski and surf in the same day
· Hunt, catch, kill, prepare and eat a large animal
· Cook and prepare a meal for 100+ people
· Stop a major criminal from committing a major crime
· Squat 500, deadlift 600, snatch 275, clean and jerk 315
· Hold a legit 5-second Iron Cross
· Play drums on stage with a major band
· Have a drink with Johnny Depp
· Create a protein bar that sells over 1,000,000 in a year
· Get married to the girl of my dreams
· Hit a home run in a major league baseball stadium
· Swim the English Channel
· Roll with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, in Brazil
· Get my ass kicked
· Spend the night sleeping on the streets of NYC
· Wrestle an alligator
· Sing the National Anthem at a Major League game
· Learn how to break dance
· Shoot a bull’s-eye with a bow and arrow from100 meters
· Tour the country visiting gyms, promoting fitness and inspiring people
· Brand the name COURAGE
· Make my own baseball bat
· Drive a car over 150 MPH
· Raise $1,000,000 for charity
· Hang out with Seth Macfarlane
· Re-build and drive a 1967 Mustang
So, there are mine. What are yours?
Never Stop, GET FIT.
Josh Courage
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