About two years ago, having read Jack Canfield’s Success Principles, Walt and I sat in Ireland and composed our list of goals.  The assignment, as Jack put it, was to create a list of the 101 things you want to do, be, or have before you die.

I dug the list out the other day after one of my friends questioned the ability to come up with 101 items. Believe me, this task isn’t as easy as it sounds.

Now, looking at the thing, I’m astounded by what I read.  Like snooping through a medicine cabinet, or rifling through bookshelves, you can tell a lot about a person by looking at her goals.  Some of these items, particularly numbers 16 and 17, make me cringe to read out loud. I’m not sure I like what they say about my value system. But, here we go.

I’d like to note two things.  The first time I did this exercise, I only thought up 87.  The last few items I added during the past week. Which is cool, because the idea is to keep the list active.  To replace the goals you’ve accomplished with something fresh.  The second, those in bold I can check off as completed.

1. Run another marathon
2. Finish a sprint triathlon
3. Finish an olympic triathlon
4. A half ironman
5. A full ironman
6. Bike across Spain
7. Bike across Vietnam
8. Spend 3 months in Australia
9. Rent a house for 3 months in Bali
10. Own a house like Derrylea in Cork, Ireland
11. Finish my book and publish it
12. Start a blog
13. Get an essay published in the NY Times
14. Be reviewed in the NY Times
15. Speak at a commencement ceremony
16. Be on Oprah
17. Weigh 113 lbs.
18. Enter a Beauty Pageant
19. Have no debt
20. Be on the NY Times Best Seller List
21. Scuba dive in Bali
22. Learn to surf
23. Go to a publishing/writer party
24. Do a book tour
25. Become an argentine tango champion
26. Fly a helicopter
27. Take a houseboat tour of India
28. Do 10 days of Vipasana mediation at a retreat
29. Hike in Nepal
30. Teach a class at Bread Loaf
31. Study Tango for 3 months in Argentina
32. Visit New Zealand
33. Get paid to read my writing to an audience
34. Get an agent
35. Have a top tier publishing house court me
36. Kayak the islands of Maine
37. Visit Washington State and Oregon
38. Have an eternity pool
39. Bike the Great Wall of China
40. Motorcycle in Montana
41. Get accepted into an amazing writer’s conference
42. Be Oprah’s book of the month author
43. Have an article published in Oprah Magazine
44. Have two million dollars or better in our retirement account
45. Lean to speak as well as Jim Rohn
46. Create a book of photos and stories with Walt
47. Have three separate residences in different countries, spending time each year in them
48. Whiten my teeth
49. Have skin treatments that will make me look 10 years younger
50. Have the youthfulness and vitality of Suzanne Summers
51. Speak at a writer’s symposium
52. Publish a collection of essays
53. Have a movie adapted from one of my books
54. Have a top-end classic Mercedes
55. Visit Rome and Florence
56. Hike the interior of Iceland
57. Sell Cedar Glen
58. Do the Appalachian Trail from start to finish
59. Spend a week at a nudist colony
60. Have a spotless garage to park my car in
61. Explore Morocco
62. Become organized
63. Ski out West
64. Become well versed in Shakespeare
65. Read the one hundred  most influential books
66. Get to a point where I can have facials and massages once a week
67. Have a closet full of banging clothes
68. Hire a personal shopper/stylist
69. Have staff
70. Stop worrying
71. Show up on the back page of Runner’s World
72. Wear a size 2 (really a size 2)
73. Create an e-book for the best vegan dinners
74. Spend a weekend per year alone with each of my kids
75. Spend a week at The Red Rock Spa in Utah
76. Write an Adventure Travelogue and publish it
77. Develop a talk about finding our authentic voice for girls and women
78. Sail our boat without help to Block Island
79. Learn to swim the crawl for a mile without getting winded
80. Scuba off of Zanzibar
81. Win a Pushcart Prize for literature
82. Visit South Africa
83. Start my own writers’ workshop
84. Have an outstanding relationship with my kids and step-kids
85. Climb the tallest mountain in Greenland with the boys
86. Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
87. Fly fish
88. Study with Cormac McCarthy and Anne Lamott
89. Do the Pilgrim’s walk across Spain
90. Get  Fulbright scholarship
91. Get a writer’s grant
92. Sing in public to applause
93. Be totally centered
94. Sail the Greek islands
95. Visit the Dalmatian coast
96. Start an Adventure club/Mastermind group
97. Lead mountain climbing tour up Kilimanjaro
98. Embrace my juiciness
99. Summit Aconcagua
100. Paraglide
101. Climb all seven summits

What’s on your bucket list? Isn’t it time you started one of your own?