Classic

• college
• marriage
• start mortgage
• children
• write my will
• finish mortgage

Physical

• walk from DTLA to Venice Beach
• bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles
• barcycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles
• bike the US coast-to-coast
• black belt
• get punched in the face
• bench-press my body-weight
• 1-week fast

Spiritual

• sensory-deprivation tank
• 30-day silent retreat
• achieve ego-death

Concerts

• Joanna Newsom
• Björk

Random

• learn APL
• drugs
• create a new sign for Nothing, AZ
• secretly landscape a stranger’s front-yard
• grow a garden
• magnets in fingers
• obtain a speedrun world-record
• go off-the-grid
• trick-or-treat as christmas carolers
• grow a handlebar mustache
• work as a night-shift janitor
• own an original Alex Garant painting
• live one month without a front-door
• ride a penny-farthing
• teach a class
• live primitively in nature for a few months
• organize a conference/festival
• eames chair

Creative

• start a band
• produce a podcast
• publish a non-fiction book
• direct a full-length film
• perform a “variety show”
• publish an academic paper
• record a full-length album
• publish a fiction book
• perform with a live string accompaniment
• create a complete K-12 curriculum
• perform standup-comedy
• launch a video-game

Tech

• make a website
• prototype a hardware invention
• publish an app
• file a patent
• speak at Strange Loop
• create a programming language
• build an OS from scratch

Craftsmanship

• create custom design of every basic home item
• invent a new musical instrument
• design a chair
• build an entire house from scratch

Places

• visit Wudang, China
• live in Switzerland
• visit Gunkajima, Japan
• live in Japan

Career

• financial independence
• $1M in the bank
• start a think-tank

Languages

• learn Chinese
• learn Japanese
• learn Spanish

Moon-Shots

• purchase my family’s old cabin
• perform at Coachella
• start a school
• revive Souplantation
• underground lair
• cure sleep
• found a city
• run for POTUS
• PhD

This list was inspired by Shane Snow’s To-Do List.