But Kendra, you already have a 100 Life Goals list! What do you need another one for?!
I came upon the idea for an "Impossible" List on YouTube from a video done by Unjaded Jade. She defined an Impossible List as an ever evolving bucket list that you refer back to when making plans for your life. An actionable bucket list. On it, you put anything and everything you would like to achieve before you die in whichever categories you choose, be they (in your mind) achievable or be they your wildest dreams that would take a miracle to happen. She encouraged you to think big! And whenever you do complete an item on this list, you can make a note underneath to take it to the next level, take it in a new direction, or simply leave it as it is. But the point is to keep moving forward and to evolve the list as you grow--adding and deleting items as you want.
I loved this idea because it has no timeline other than your life. These are the dreams to guide your path in life, not really the SMART goals and daily habits you want to adopt as life systems. They're big ticket items you maybe can't achieve yet or don't yet know how to achieve in a specific timeline but that make you crazy excited to think about achieving!
Many of mine were brought over from my 100 Goals list, but I was kind of unknowingly using that as an "Impossible" List at the time. I knew I wouldn't visit all 7 continents by 2026, but I wanted to get closer to that goal. And I have, but I feel anxious when I see the deadline on that list because I know most are longer-term goals that I won't be able to check off. I'll probably make shorter, SMARTer, and more realistic ten year life goals lists again (I do like my lists!), but I love having this list of things that will take more time, work, luck, and dreaming to achieve. I can then choose things from here to break down into smaller stepping stones on my 10-year lists and so guide my life in an awesome (in my opinion anyway) direction!
It's funny where life takes you, so if you want it, even if it seems too silly or outlandish to admit, write it down, share it, and you can make it happen! Why not?!
Enjoy my "Impossible" List and if you make one of your own, please share with me!
CAREER/FINANCE
Work on a farm
Be a tour guide
Earn money online
Work or volunteer at a National Park
Sell something I make
Work in Antarctica
Work or volunteer for local government
No personal debt
Save $15,000
Learn to haggle and bargain (started May 2018 in Thailand, perfected in 2019-20 in Zambia)
-Bargain in a local language outside the U.S.
Make money in the stock market
Get paid to travel somewhere
Write curriculum for public schools
SOCIAL & FAMILY
Be in a long-term relationship
Take a trip with my sister (Pismo Beach, May 2020)
-Take an out-of-state trip with my sister
Go backpacking with friends
Take a trip with my best friend
Establish a regular Game Night
CREATIVE
Write one blog post every month for a year
Take a ceramics class
Learn to play an instrument
Take a cooking class
Get 500 followers on Instagram
Get 500 subscribers on blog
Adjust or make website with HTML and CSS
Finish knitting something
Design a home garden
Build something from scratch
TRAVEL & ADVENTURE
Great American Road Trip
Visit all 50 states
Visit all 7 continents (✔: North America-home; Asia-2014; Africa-2019)
Drive from Alaska to the tip of Argentina
Visit every Disney Park (✔: California, Tokyo)
See a floating lantern festival
See the Northern Lights
Jump from a waterfall
Hike the Great Wall of China (Jinshanling section, Aug. 2015)
-Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Horseback trip
Kayaking/rafting trip
Go to an elephant sanctuary in SE Asia (Phuket, Thailand in May 2018)
-Go on an ethical/responsible safari in Africa
Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
Complete the SoCal Six Pack of Peaks (✔: Mt. Wilson, Jan. 2019; Mt. Baldy, Jul. 2019)
Hike to Everest Base Camp
Go sailing (San Diego, Jul. 2019)
-Learn how to sail
Go scuba diving (Koh Tao, Thailand, May 2018)
-Get SCUBA certification
Swim in every ocean in the world (✔: Pacific, my whole life)
Do a thru-hike
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Get a Multiple and Single Subject Teaching Credential
Get a Master's Degree
Read Harry Potter in Japanese
Pass the N2 in Japanese
Hold a conversation in Spanish
Know how to maintain my car (oil/tire/etc)
Learn to ID the big constellations
Wilderness First Aid class
Learn to ID edible and medicinal local plants in the wild
Become a beekeeper
Learn how to go off grid and become self-sufficient
Learn how to drive a manual car
Learn how to weave on a loom
HEALTH & FITNESS
Join an adult soccer team
Complete a Tough Mudder
Complete a Spartan race
Run a 10k (Disney run, Nov. 2016)
-Participate in an aquathon
Be able to do a cartwheel
Be able to do a handstand
Get the splits
Go on a yoga and meditation retreat
Take horseback riding lessons
Start kickboxing
Go plant-based for a month
Give blood
MISC.
Be an extra in a movie
Read the whole Bible
Complete a 5-Year Journal
Volunteer consecutively for 3 months (Peace Corps Zambia, Aug 2019-Mar 2020 evacuation)
-Volunteer consecutively for one year
Be a speaker at a school
Build a school
Raise $10,000 for charity
Improve my speaking/debating skills
Learn to ballroom dance
Live on a homestead
Create my own tea blends
Go as zero-waste as possible/Be able to offset my carbon footprint
Plant 100 trees
Meet Oprah
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