THE Life List

I am a strong believer in writing down life goals and wishes. This probably stems from my love of the written word. However there is something to be said for the power of positive thinking, and I truly believe that putting thoughts on paper gives them a tangible aspect that produces more power than they would have had just swimming around in our brains all day.

I am also a strong believer in putting what you want out there for the universe/God/etc. to hear, and I have been impressed many times in my life by circumstances that have come about simply by wishing them into reality, i.e. winning a major sweepstakes to being my world travels. 

I started this to do list of life wishes, goals and dreams about a year ago, and whenever I need to feel inspired I read it to remind myself what I want to be doing with my life. I am a list maker as it is, with random bits of paper throughout my room of budgets, grocery lists, to do lists, lists of people I want to write or visit, etc. This, however, is by far my most treasured of them all. Why? Because my #1 worst fear (yes, even more than death or heights) is mediocrity. 

“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid” – Basil King

“Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Goethe 

So here it is, Sarah Hahn’s Bucket List (in no particular order):
Italics = DONE!

• See the Aurora Borealis
• Ride on a dog sled
• Learn to drive a manual 
• Save a life 
• Hike the John Muir Trail in Yosemite
• Win money at a horse race
• Win a major sweepstakes
• Sea kayak
• Be someone’s maid of honor and do an amazing job
• Be someone’s God Mother
• Act in a play, television show or movie
• Attend the Olympics
• Run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain
• Stand under the Eiffel Tower
• Speak Italian in Italy
• Join the Peace Corps
• Shower in a waterfall
• Learn to play a musical instrument
• Walk the Great Wall in China
• Sit with a stranger in a restaurant and have a meal with them
• Buy a homeless person a meal
• Dance with a stranger in a foreign country
• Fill an entire passport within 10 years before it expires
• Party hard with a celebrity
• Be in Times Square for New Years
• Catch a fish, prepare it and cook it
• Dance on stage at a major concert
• Donate a significant amount of money to a charity I believe in
• Go on a big travel/adventure completely solo for at least 3 months
• Get a job in another country
• Create a famous family recipe that my family can’t get enough of
• Safari in Africa
• See the salmon swim upstream in Alaska
• Eat a croissant in a French café
• See the Pyramids
• Have a rooftop garden
• Participate in a political protest or peace rally
• Make a quilt 
• Start a business
• See the Seven Wonders of the World
• Crew on a large sail boat
• Hang glide
• Base jump
• Tight rope walk
• Fly a small plane all by myself
• Sail a small boat by myself
• Scuba dive
• Skydive
• Bungee jump
• Marry the love of my life
• Meet the president or prime minister of a country
• Be a food critic
• Read The Bible
• Ride in a helicopter
• Send a message in a bottle
• Whale watch
• Throw a dart on a world map and go there!!
• Teach a class
• Write a novel… and get it published!!
• Play with a gorilla or chimpanzee
• Swim with dolphins
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• See a meteor shower
• Get better at sailing
• Get better at windsurfing
• Find my soul mate
• Have a family, teach my children good things
• Have a well-trained (big) dog
• Be a good friend, sister, daughter
• Climb the Sydney Bridge
• Climb a very tall mountain
• Backpack through Europe
• Beat someone up who really deserves it 
• Kiss someone in the pouring rain (Good idea, Jenna’s life list)
• Zip line through a rain forest canopy
• White water raft
• Surf in Hawaii
• See the Grand Canyon
• Tour the best food cities in US and try all the local favorites : )
• Visit each continent before the age of 30
• Set foot on Antarctica
• Write a (published) freelance travel article
• Get a press release published
• Move something with telepathy haha… no but seriously
• Learn to cook WELL
• Be on a TV show (including hosting or journalism)
• Invent something
• Dance with someone I love under the stars
• Go on some sort of spiritual retreat
• Be a leader of some sort of outdoor adventure
• Try the trapeze
• Have an adventure in NYC

Most people I know have a life list or something similar. Do you? If not, why the Hell not??! Get on itz! Life is farrrrr to short to simply exist, people- you have to actually LIVE!

What's at the top of your life list? What did I leave out??