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I’m going to die. There. I said it. But guess what, so are you. And as morbid as that realization is, it can also be quite a powerful one as well. As such, here’s an excerpt of a quote by Steve Jobs:

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life…There is no reason not to follow your heart…”

Now tragically, Steve did not do everything in his power to extend his own life as he battled cancer, which he later regretted. However, he said this quote quite early on his career, which seemed to really emulate how he lived his life. He’s arguably one of the greatest men to have ever lived (regardless of where you stand on his verbally abusive character). And he accomplished a great deal after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. No doubt this is something that further motivated Steve and his day-to-day actions with Apple and other ventures. Now, where am I going with this you might ask? With everything going on during quarantine, I’ve never had so much time for self-reflection. But that only gets you so far. Why not project towards the future instead?

So I did. And in doing so, I stumbled across a video on Matt D’Avella’s titled “Watch This Video Before You Die”. This video features the guest, Ben Nemtin, part of The Buried Life Crew. The Buried Life Crew is known for curating their own bucket list and traveling around the country in a bus in order to complete as many as possible while helping others reach their bucket list items along the way. So after pausing the video at 5:48 out of 9:57, I decided to try and curate my very own list. It’d only take about fifteen-minutes, right? Maybe a half hour at the most. If you think this, then you’re just as ignorant as I was.

The first 25 came super quick and easy to me. The next ten still easy, but not quite so free-flowing. Once I hit 50, it was like “Damn, I’ve still got 50 more to go! And I’ve been at it for forty-five-minutes already!” The next 50 took me another hour and fifteen or so to complete. It’s now two hours later and I’ve just wrapping up my list. The point is that we often hear about having a bucket list, but who really has 100 items at the ready? If you do, you’re one of the few that I’ve encountered. I honestly didn’t have any written down prior to this. Shame on me, and probably rightfully so. You might have really basic things down which are more on a micro level such as trying new foods. But why not in a new country or place?

I challenged myself to complete this list, and I challenge you to do the same. And please, share it with others. You surely discovered something about yourself, and others surely will as well. Besides, you’re really not going to accomplish at least some of your bucket list items without outside help. I’m sure as hell not going to walk on the moon without a team of people. Not unless of course that involves me blowing myself up during my initial rocket testing, and hoping some of my matter reaches the ether. But I digress. Without further ado, I present my personal bucket list.

100 Bucket List Items

1. Travel to every designated country
2. Perform at Madison Square Garden
3. Perform at Wembley Stadium
4. Perform at Reading Festival
5. Perform at Lolapalooza
6. Perform at Bonaroo
7. Create my own festival
8. Host my own TV show
9. Teach a regular lecture
10. Appear on Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
11. Own my own “Estate”
12. Win a spot in the PGA US Open
13. Compete in college football as a starting QB
14. Go skydiving
15. Go bunjee jumping
16. Walk on the moon
17. Ride the entire Baja 1000
18. Complete the Grand Slam of Endurance Running Events
19. Host my own comedy special
20. Invent something life-changing
21. Open for System of a Down
22. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
23. Go glacier climbing
24. Give back in large ways to local communities
25. Top 35 Under 35 List
26. Top 50 over 50
27. Learn sign language
28. Travel the original Silk Road
29. Learn Spanish and German 
30. Complete the Appalachian Trail
31. Complete the PNW Trail
32. Visit every National Park in an RV
33. Perform a concert with my son
34. Become a properly published author
35. Volunteer as a firefighter for a day
36. Start a successful media & entertainment empire
37. Go to a nude beach
38. Ride the Alaskan Railroad
39. Marry the girl I’ve seen in my dreams
40. Live in my ancestral hometown of Weiden, Germany
41. Go to the red light district in Berlin and Amsterdam
42. Ride a motorbike along the Greece coastline
43. Surf in Australia
44. Pet a baby koala and kangaroo
45. Compete in the celebrity NBA All-Star Game
46. Go on an exploration safari in Africa
47. Star in a AAA video game
48. Become TIME person of the year
49. Form my own town (Town of Wagon Wheel, Pennsylvania)
50. Write a screenplay for a major Hollywood picture
51. Help to cure cancer
52. Help to cure Alzheimer’s
53. Help to spread Science over Religion
54. Coach one of my son’s sports teams
55. Work with the Broken Lizard crew
56. Work with the Seth Rogen crew
57. Make a painting Jim Carrey
58. Star in an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
59. Co-write a South Park episode
60. Co-write a IASIP episode
61. Co-write an SNL sketch
62. Become an action hero
63. Become a comedy star
64. Maintain a flat stomach til #99
65. Open a school for underprivileged kids
66. Open a creative school in every country
67. Receive a YouTube play button
68. Create a children’s TV show
69. Become a sex icon
70. Run for political office
71. Start a minimalist tech company
72. Start a video game company
73. Upload my life’s work into a video game
74. Be awarded the Presidential Honor of Freedom
75. Win a Nobel Prize
76. Swim with dolphins in the ocean
77. Help to eliminate homelessness
78. Help to eliminate racisim
79. Help to truly end world hunger
80. Help to save someone’s life
81. Adopt as many underprivileged kids as I can
82. Build an X-men-like school for them
83. Help the blind to see
84. Become a fun-loving Grandfather
85. Give back all of my wealth before I die
86. Help to create a heaven on earth
87. Found a mental health institute
88. Help to truly make America Great again
89. Found a global internship through my empire
90. Help to find a missing person
91. Help to save the planet before fucking up another
92. Learn to master sleep
93. Found a non-corrupt charity organization
94. Help to better understand the universe
95. Give back to my family
96. Communicate with aliens
97. Help my son and other’s achieve their bucket list items as well
98. Give everything away during my last chapter in life 72-94 years
99. Have a 1st grade version of me be proud of what I’ve accomplished
100. Start over