I’ve successfully completed hundreds of bucket list items from flying a jet pack to moving to a new country and I achieved them by creating a yearly list. The more unrealistic we are with our dreams and goals, the more we are able to achieve.
Here are 30 tested ideas for your 2014 list:
1. Pilot a Biplane
2. Skydive
3. SkyJump from Stratosphere Tower, Vegas
4. Fly a Jet Pack with JetLev
5. Whitewater Rafting in Class V Rapids
6. Caving or Spelunking
7. Night Snorkel with Manta Rays in Hawaii
8. Do an Off-Road ATV Adventure in Aruba
9. Ride a Camel through the Desert in Wadi Rum
10. Skeet Shoot in Dominican Republic
11. Windsurf in Aruba
12. Zipline in Costa Rica
13. Pilot a Helicopter
14. Dog-Sledding in Alaska
15. Swim with Whale Sharks
16. Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
17. Fly a Glider
18. Rappelling
19. Rock Climbing
20. Boogie Boarding
21. Trapeze Lessons (On your wedding day is optional)
22. Sailing Lessons
23. Heli-Skiing
24. Paragliding
25. Ride through Petra, Jordan on a Donkey
26. Sleep Under the Stars in Wadi Rum, Jordan
27. Rappel a Waterfall
28. Take Surf Lessons in Fiji
29. Walk on a Glacier in Alaska
30. Drive a Dune Buggie in Fiji
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I really need a trip to Fiju and a heliskiing trip too! What a phenomenal list you have provided…and more impressively already accomplished!!!! HNY!
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It seems rather than getting shorter my list keeps getting longer regardless of how many items I cross off. It’s not a complaint though; a bucket list life is awesome! 🙂
Are you an avid skier?
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Yes – despite living on the East Coast…
Actually planning Whistler trip for 2014 Christmas – perhaps heliskiing will be the perfect present!!
Your Caribbean trips sounds incredible! Have you been to St Vincent & the Grenadines? A boat trip around those islands is now on my list. I have been to two of the islands but want to explore more!
By the way – thanks to you (truly) I have changed my view on bucket lists to something positive and absolutely something I need to have and chase!
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I haven’t been to St Vincent & the Grenadines yet; so many locations and so little time 😉 It’s definitely on my list though.
I appreciate your constant support and I smile every time I see your profile photos because I know it’s going to be next to a positive, encouraging text. You’re a light!
Happy New Year.
May the world be at your doorstep,
Lesley
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Ding Dang Lesley Carter how good a comment is that to open up and read?! Thankyou!!!
Happy 2014 to you & your family too – looking forward to seeing what it brings!!
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That boogie boarding pic is fantastic!!! My only travel wish for 2014 is a white Christmas in Canada! Need to choose between Banff & Whistler. I vote Banff because I love the place and want my South Pacific family to experience it.
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I vote Banff too! You should check out some of Alberta posts under the Canada category. It will help with your decision 🙂
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Go Girl….
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You set the bar high. Which is great. 2014 is already off to an awesome start too! cheers…wendy
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Keep sharing those amazing recipes, Wendy, and I won’t be able to get off the couch 😉
Thanks for the support.
I hope your year is already filled with joy and laughter.
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What a wonderful life you live! Mahalo for sharing with everyone – fantastic inspiration!
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Too you as well. Even though we visited Hawaii a few months ago, we’d like to get back again this year. I love your photos 🙂
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You continue to inspire Lesley! Is that you in the heli skiing photo?! I like to think of myself as adventurous but that one makes my stomach do a churn.
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It’s not me in the photo but it was a Bucket List Publications press trip with Selkirk Tangiers to Revelstoke Mountain resort in B.C..
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Reblogged this on Life in Balance and commented:
Your Daily inspiration
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“The more unrealistic we are with our dreams and goals, the more we are able to achieve.” <– love that. also, jordan is an amazing country and to this day, i will never forget the time i spent in the wadi rum desert. i would add going for a jeep ride in the desert, along with floating on the dead sea to the list 🙂
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I realized when I had limited the list to 30, I’d have to leave out a few amazing adventures but they were definitely on my life list. The Dead Sea was such a unique experience, right? I’m not sure if I’d say it was as adventurous as the other though; that’s why I left it off. 🙂
What other countries top your list?
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canada (particularly british columbia – such an amazing province; if you’re looking for adventure, definitely hit up whistler, or go wakeboarding in the okanagan with spectacular views in the summer), and any beach in south east asia (boracay and palawan in the philippines, koh samui in thailand, and bali in indonesia). this christmas i tried an underwater scooter in bali – definitely not as cool as it sounds and i wouldn’t really recommend it to anyone, but it was a unique experience nonetheless
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Wow! Amazing! An inspirational start, indeed, to the New Year!
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Super! Many of them are vertigo-inducing but what the heck – they might just be the cure for me 🙂
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I love a good flight and I love a good fall even more 😉
What’s on the top of your list?
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Awesome! You make me want to be more adventurous.
I’m nominating you for the Sisterhood of the World blogger award. Thanks for all you do, and share!
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Thank you for the award. I’ve posted it on Facebook and Twitter as a way of sharing 🙂
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Your life is inspirational! I can’t wait to finish school so I can travel and have fun adventures!
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fantastic adventures! very inspiring! and I love the pictures too, wondering how in the world you got some of them.
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Your life is so exciting!!! I hope to check a few of these off my list this year living in Alaska 🙂
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You’re sure you’re not independently wealthy?
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Well I do stand on the corner every night and sell my goods; does that count? 😉
Not independently wealthy or even in the upper class, but I go after what I want and I won’t give up on anything.
I did a lot of these things while I was a university student with loans and bills. I took extra jobs, lived well below my means, and thought outside of the box to bring it all to reality.
Everything is possible.
🙂
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Selling goods? You mean girlscout cookies? I’ll take two boxes of chocolate mint, please! 😉
Yeah, I have to ask because I feel so poorly travelled, and conversely it was when I was poor, like you described, that all my adventures happened. Since going sedentary, the farthest I’ve been is the other side of the country. Makes me sad somedays 😦
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🙂
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May the Lord Richly bless you in all your news adventures in 2014!
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Love it!
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Wow, you are really living out your dreams. Very good for you. And in many years, you will have a lot to tell the younger family about. Specially about living out their dreams too.
I’m not for the dangerous experinces, as you are, but absolutely for living out your dreams.
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Irene
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Oh my gosh, you’re living my dream life!!! Teach me how to afford what you do! You are a huge inspiration to my Gypsy soul.
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I’ve done #12 (same place) and #16 (Albuquerque, NM). I need to get moving on my bucket list.
Here’s a question….were you leery or afraid of doing any of these, but pleasantly surprised that they weren’t as scarey as you thought? Just curious. 🙂
Great post!! Love the expressions on your face!!
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Brilliant reminder that no day is a bad day to make the most of! Cheers to 2014!
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Wow, impressive!
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This is brilliant, what amazing things to do! You have created some fantastic memories to treasure xx
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Your Mum is so glamourous! I think whitewater rafting i’s like to try and flying a helicopter. Both of them are cool… 🙂
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Wow!!
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Awesome! Solid list, lots of fun I’m sure!
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Driving a nascar/stock car must be a priority in 2014 – we discussed this last year and you wiggled free. Go for it in 2014. Waiting for the evidence. Cheers.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing !!
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You are too awesome. Definitely including some of those items on my bucket list! 😀 Great idea doing it every year, too!
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When you put these all together, your adventures take on a real dare-devil theme but we already know that about your. 😀 I also like the last picture last.
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Great pictures, and fabulous adventures. You go, girl!
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I respect you! It’s always been my dream doing all these things *-*
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Incredible list! I’ve sadly only knocked off one of these from your list, but hoping 2014 springs more adventures for me (and you as well)! 🙂
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LOVE THIS LIST AND LOVE YOUR ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT!!
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Thanks for the follow Leslie and the kind holiday wishes. I think I need to make a bucket list! Your yearly accomplishments are impressive to say the least! Have a blessed day! Much love and light to you. Queen Of Hearts
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My friend from Hawaii was over during the holidays and showed me his video of the Manta Rays! It looked so incredible that if I get up enough nerve, I’ll add it to my bucket list! You’ve done so many amazing things! Keep it up girl!
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You’re unbelievable! What an amazing and wonderful way to live your life!
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Wow, that’s an amazing list! This may be the year I go sky-diving. I want to experience that soon. Any of those would be spectacular though. All the best for the New Year! 🙂
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Yours was the first blog I read when I started blogging in 2012 – and I’m still taking inspiration in 2014. Thank you and happy new year :).
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As I was scrolling through your list I noticed that it was your smile that got me most! Somehow I stopped dropping by your blog – forgot how happy it alwas makes me feel 🙂 And how much it makes me think of what it is I want to do (or not do ;-> ) Best wishes for a fabulous New Year!
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I to have a yearly list
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Curious if marriage or getting older has slowed down your adventures? I turn 67 this month and have been married for 40 years…but we are still going strong, because we made travel a priority for us and our kids. My wife is a pilot and we are both scuba divers, skiers, and equestrians…so not just drinking, eating, and museums in 48 states and more than 45 countries. We have a bucket list of visiting all the US national parks & monuments (there are a lot!)…just added three more in 2013 (Death Valley, Organ Pipe, and Saguaro). Happy New Year (and adventure).
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Damn, you’re inspiring!
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What a great list! I can’t wait to check off zip-lining in Costa Rica this summer!
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What a great list and it must have been amazing to fill your 2013 bucket. May God bless you and protect you during 2014. Happy New Year.
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