The Bucket List Version 2.0

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Crossed off #25 and Visited Iguassu Falls in Feb. 2009

Wow, this has been a long week.  It is quarterly report time at my job, and as usually happens every three months, I am swamped.  With that being said, it is amazing this post made it out on time (this is an assumption, it is 5:30 on Wednesday and I am still not sure if I will be able to finish it tonight).  So, if you are reading this on Thursday morning, feel free to congratulate me, as I wasn’t sure if this one was going to meet the deadline!

UPDATE: It is now Sunday afternoon, and I am still putting the final touches on The Bucket List 2.0 and this post. So much for Thursday morning, congratulations are definitely not in order.

Now that the complaints are out of the way, I am very excited to share with you something that has been in the works since Location180 began: The Bucket List Version 2.0.  When I first started the site, the list was not much more than an after thought.  It was something I thought would be fun to do for myself, but didn’t expect anyone else to actually care.  Fast forward a few months and The List is the single most viewed page (aside from my home page) on the site.  Who would have thought?  Well, now that it has become so popular, I am slightly embarrassed at the current state of affairs as it is concerned.  It was put together and posted in very much a rough format, with little thought to organization or completeness.  Ever since, I have been writing down things I would like to do as they pop into my head, and I just haven’t made the effort to get them on the site.  So today marks the second iteration (Version 2.0 as I like to call it) of my bucket list.

Click to See The Bucket List 2.0

Not only will you find more items added from the simple to the damn near impossible, but they are better organized for clarity’s sake.  Now sub goals are more clearly identified, other like goals are near each other, and status reports have been added where applicable.  While this is an upgrade, it still, and probably always will be a work in progress.  I had a difficult time figuring out how to organize the list, how to integrate the new items, and how I will be able to add new items into the future.  What you see is what I have come up with. I would LOVE some suggestions on ways that I can improve it even more.  I am still not entirely sure that I am satisfied, but we’ll take it one step at a time.

There are a few things on here I am really excited about, so I thought I would spot light them for you.

#79 Create a list of my top 100 albums of all time.  I listen to a lot of music.  I also like lists, top ten, best of, whatever.  Due to this, for years I have had an interest in creating my top 100 albums of all time.  This seems to be a natural addition to the list, as I could use something that is very attainable for those times when I don’t feel like I am making any progress.  This could occur immediately after attempting the following goal:

#71 Go into space on Virgin Galactic.  I recently was having coffee with Chris Guillebeau and we started talking about my list.  He thought it would be interesting if there were some truly awesome, hard to obtain goals that people would love to read about.  Well, here is one for you.  Sir Richard Branson is the billionaire mastermind behind the first commercial space shuttle.  How hard is it to get on there? Very.  How expensive is it for the average ticket? VERY.  How am I going to get on it? No clue.  But as this site gains more recognition, there is no telling what could happen.  Disclaimer: Please allow a few years for this one to come to fruition…

#75 Attend a Vipassana Retreat. This one scares me a little bit, but I would love to see what would happen if I couldn’t talk for 10 days.  For those that don’t know Vipassana is a ten day meditation retreat.  I have heard it can be life changing, or the longest ten days ever, depending on who you ask. Tynan seemed to find it the latter, but the story about his time there is very much worth reading.

Now for version 2.0 I thought I would mix it up a little bit.  I have a list that is currently 96 items long.  I have decided to make the last 4 wildcard goals.  Here is how this will work.  The first person to leave a comment suggesting a goal automatically gets it.  That is #97.  Be creative, be nice,  and PLEASE don’t do what they did to Heath over at Project183.

The next two goals will also be suggested by you, but this time I get to be a little more selective.  Leave a comment, send me an email, a Tweet, whatever, about what you would like to see me do and write (or make a video) about.  This is your chance to be a part of the future of Location180.  I will then choose the three that I am most interested in doing, and do my absolute best to accomplish them within the next 12 months.

As for the final goal, I am not sure what that is going to be yet.  I want it to be something really special, and something that can make a difference.  So sometime in the future you will see an update on this.

So while it may not be the biggest update in the world, I am excited to finally start giving the list the attention it deserves.

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