What's on your "To Do Before I Die" list?

In one of the very first LifeTwo posts we wrote about the importance and desirability of maintaining a "to do before I die" list:

Anyone starting a business knows that one of the first things you do is to create a business plan. This document covers where you are going to take the business and how you are going to get there. It is hard to imagine a founder of a serious business start-up that doesn't spend a great deal of time thinking about these questions. Yet it is rare to see that same level of effort going into one's own personal lives. Where is the personal business planning process?

Where is the list of things that we want to do so we can take the time to figure out how to do them? A great start is a "to do" list of all of the things that you want to do before it's too late. The list can be simple or it can be quite involved. Right now my "to do before I die" list is maintained on Excel. I started out to write down the top 100 things I wanted to do before I was simply too old to do them but I only got to about 50 before I ran out of things that seemed meaningful enough to go on such a list. (It turned out to be surprisingly hard to come up with 100.) My list ranges from finally learning to play golf to going to Angkor Wat. It also has a lot of more person and family related items that wouldn't mean anything to anyone other than me. I've already accomplished several since starting the list about 10 years ago.

To help you (and me) fill out your lists, LifeTwo is collecting "to do before I die" ideas here. Please feel free to leave yours via comments or emailing them to us at info [at] lifetwo [dot] com.

Greg (LifeTwo): Learn to surf
Wesley (LifeTwo): Learning to play golf
Bill O'Reilly (Fox News): to go scuba diving (source: Newsweek)
Dan Quayle (Former politician): to go on a horseback safari in Botswana (source: Newsweek)
Patti Smith (recording artist): Read the Bible, Torah and Qur'an (source: Newsweek)
Joan Jett (recording artist): to learn a language (source: Newsweek)
Rocky Petralia (Hello Rocky): to write a book
Rhea (Boomer Chronicles): Travel the U.S. continent in a small RV/van
John (life coach): Update my family tree on the computer and give it to my children
Ann (retirement coach): spend 3 months on Sanibel and Captiva Islands
Ron (the genius behind IRememberJFK): visit Australia
Wendy (GenPlus): traveling across the US/Canada in an RV w/my daughter
Lloyd (Your Drum): thinking....

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