I’ve had a plain old bucket list sitting in a google doc ever since I was in high school. However, I never got around to anything on the list – it was all events that I just assumed would eventually happen later in the future – some undefined time that kept me content with my belief that I did not have to take action NOW.
Luckily, I think I’ve found a solution: an Impossible List. I found the idea while scrolling through Thomas Frank’s blog, CollegeInfoGeek, but it looks like Joel Runyon had the original idea and created the world’s first impossible list and defined the difference between it and just a normal bucket list. Put simply, the impossible list is an ever-evolving list of experiences that define how you live, how you enrich other’s lives, and demands you to take action right now. It challenges you to question what’s impossible right now, and push you to bigger and better things rather than be comfortable with where you currently are. A bucket list expires when you die. The impossible list is about what you’re aspiring to do right now… because right now is the only time you really have.
Think about what your true life goals are? What’s your vision? Where do you want to be in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years? What kind of person do you want to become? What kinds of things would you like to have accomplished? Write these things down, and constantly evaluate your progress towards them.
Current Focuses:
I’m currently working on building up this blog and bringing more paleo, organic, non-gmo, grass-fed food to OSU’s campus.
Last 5 Completed Goals
- Do a handstand (no wall). Here’s your proof!
- Write an e-book.You can download it here!
- Write in my morning journal 100 days in a row. Completed March 3, 2019!
- Give a TEDx Talk. September 26th, 2019. Stay Tuned for the video!</em
- Walk 20 feet on a slackline
Fitness/Health Goals
- Run a mile in less than 7 minutes
- Run a mile in less than 6 minutes
- Learn standing backflips
- Learn wall flips
- Climb a 15 foot rope using hands only
- Walk 20 feet on a slackline
- Do 100 push-ups in a single set
- Do 15 pull-ups in a single set
- Do 15 chin-ups in a single set
- Do a muscle up
- Do a strict muscle-up (no kipping or swinging)
- Do a one-arm pull-up
- Do a front lever
- Do a full planche
- Do a full planche to L-sit
- Do a full planche to handstand
- Do a full planche push-up
- Do a fingertip plance push-up
- Reach 165 lbs in weight with less than 6% body fat (currently: 160 lbs)
- Do a full-body explosive pushup
- Do a superman pushup
Do a handstand (no wall)Check it out!- Do a handstand for 20 seconds (current: 10 seconds)
- Do a handstand push-up
- Do 5 handstand push-ups
- Do 100 squats in a single set
Professional Goals
- Get 100,000 blog visits, all time
- Get 1,000 blog visits in a day
- Get 5,000 blog visits in a day
- Get 75,000 blog visits in a month
- Get 150,000 blog visits in a month
- Get 500,000 blog visits in a month
- Start a newsletter
- Grow the newsletter to 100 subscribers
- Grow the newsletter to 1,000 subscribers
- Write 25,000 words in a month
- Start a podcast
- Get 1,000 listeners in a month
- Self publish a book (>10,000 words)
- Create print and audiobook editions of the book
- Write a traditionally published book
- Get on the New York Times Best Sellers List
- Launch a regular YouTube channel and release 10 videos
- Release 50 videos
- Gain 250 YouTube subscribers
- Gain 500 subscribers
- Gain 1,000 subscribers
- Gain 2,500 subscribers
- Gain 5,000 subscribers
- Gain 10,000 subscribers
- Gain 50,000 subscribers
- Gain 100,000 subscribers and earn the silver Play Button
- Do a collab video with another dedicated YouTuber
- Form an LLC and actually be a professional company that does business things
- Walk into a bookstore and take a selfie with a book I wrote that’s for sale there
- Create an online course
- Grow my Instagram account to 1,000 followers
- 5,000 followers
- 10,000 followers
- 50,000 followers
- 100,000 followers
- Launch a product that creates over $15,000 in revenue within one month
- Launch a product that creates over $100,000 in revenue within one month
- Speak at a university for more than 500 students
- Give a TEDx Talk
Write an e-bookYep, you can download it here!- Make $10,000 (gross) in a month
- Make $25,000 in a month
- Make $100,000 in a month
- Learn how to make facebook ads for a local business
- Get a contract for $2,000 a month
- Net $10,000 a month by making facebook ads
- Start my own social media marketing business
Habit Goals
Write in my morning journal 100 days in a row – Skill: Creativity/GratitudeCompleted March 3, 2019- Journal every day for a year
- Write in my evening journal 100 days in a row – Skill: Creativity/Gratitude
- Read 25 pages a day for three months in a row – Skill: Intelligence
- Write 500 words 100 days in a row – Skill: Writing/Body of Work
Creative Goals
- Record and release a full solo piano song
- Release an entire album of instrumental music
- Play a live show that includes singing
- Record a rap song
- Design a WordPress theme from scratch
- Learn how to make electronic music
- Learn how to play any song by ear on the piano
- Memorize all of the hand positions for guitar chords
- Play my favorite pop songs on guitar
- Learn how to play finger-style guitar
- Design an ad for a real company
- Run a successful ad campaign
Skill Goals
- Become fluent in mandarin
- Become fluent in Spanish
- Learn archery
- Learn knife throwing
- Learn ninja-star throwing
- Learn ballroom dance
- Become a competent skateboarder
- Tricks to learn: Ollie, Pop shuvit, Frontside pop shuvit, Kickflip, Rock-to-fakie, Rock-n-roll, Airing out, Switch ollie
- Learn to snowboard
- Learn to ski
- Learn to fly a plane
- Learn to Breakdance
- Learn to DJ
Fun and Insane Goals
- Skydive
- Bungee jump
- Wingsuit fly
- Zero-G flight
- Be on American Ninja Warrior
- Climb a mountain
- Go surfing
- Take a trapeze class
- Do the CN Tower Edge Walk
- Be on TV
- Break a world record
- Try out the backwards brain bike
- Fly a Flyboard Water Hoverboard
- Fly a Rocketman Water jet lev Fly Board
- Walk with wolves (and get kissed by one)
- Go indoor Skydiving
Go parasailingCompleted March 11, 2019- Go paragliding
- Be an Extra in a movie
- Get something named after me
Travel Goals
- Visit every continent
- Go swimming in every ocean
- Travel for 1 year straight
- Own property in 4 different countries
- Live on the beach in some tropical country for at-least 3 months
- Visit all 50 states
- Visit 20 countries
- Visit Rome
- Visit Ireland
- Visit England
- Visit China
- Visit Spain
- Visit Italy
- Visit Bali
- Make an intro video for YouTube in a different country
Minimalism
- Go without internet for a month
- Go without a car for a month
- Count and document all my crap
- Own less than 300 things
- Create a “Getaway” backpack
- Clean my dorm up to match my roommates’ minimalism
Life Goals
- Change 1 person’s Life for the better (always active)
- Reach 300,000,000 people through social media, YouTube, podcast
- Raise $100,000 for a charity of my choice
- Give $100,000 away
- Put $100,000 in the bank
- Create a 7-figure company
- Build a team of 5 people to make something extraordinary
- Create an apparel line
- Start a successful blog(50,000+ subscribers)
- Leave a $100 tip at a restaurant
- Be self sufficient and location independent
- Help other people expand their potential and realize their dreams (always in progress)
- Read 1,000 books (Starting August 2018; current: 48)
Tom Robbins
“To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.”
If you found this list inspiring, I challenge you to create your own!
If you’re interested in going paleo, I wrote a tutorial that will explain everything and help you get started right now. In college? I’ve got a super detailed guide on how to maintain your diet and find the resources you need to stay healthy ! Have any questions about anything? I’m happy to help!
