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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the places and moments that take our breath away. Anonymous
Two years ago I started writing my life list and I only got 25 out of 100 things on my list. I started thinking about things that I really want to do in this one life that I have and for starters sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day is not one of them.
1. See the Eiffel Tower
2. Live on a farm
3. Live in New York City
4. Learn how to ride a unicycle
5. Throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain, Italy Rome
6. Slow dance under the Northern Lights
7. See the Rolling Stones
8. Write a Novel
9. Eat blow fish
10. Ride my bike across Golden Gate Bridge
11. Visit India
12. Learn to start a fire without matches or a lighter
13. Learn to Yodel
14. Learn French
15. Read Gone with the Wind
16. Go surfing in Ireland
17. Build someone a house
18. Teach kids how to knit
19. Visit Panama
20. Learn archery
21. Take a road trip to anywhere (just get in the car and drive)
22. Fall in love
23. Open my own coffee shop
24. Set foot in all 50 states
25. Wear a large hat at the Kentucky Derby
26. Go to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park
27. Dye by hair hot pink
28. Make a living off photography
29. Run a half-Marathon
30. Bike through National Geographic's 10 Best Bike Trails in the World.
31. Ride a bicycle from Los Angeles to New York
32. Take up fishing.
33. Swim in all of the Great Lakes
34. Learn to play the drums
35. Jump from a cliff into deep water
36. Sleep in An Overnight Train
37. Walk Through a Corn Maze
38. Adopt a pet from the animal shelter
39. Go bird watching in Panama
40. Go to The Grand Canyon, Arizona
41. Got to Death Valley, California
42. Carnival in Venice
43. Learn to play chess
44. Do woodworking
45. Learn to brew beer
46. Solve the Rubik's Cube
47. Make a list of 100 books I want to read
48. Discover what makes me truly happy
49. Become an early riser
50. Learn to say "no" without feeling guilty
51. Develop greater self-esteem and self-confidence
52. Face my greatest fears
53. Open a Swiss bank account
54. Create a Family Tree
55. Find inner peace
56. Heal my past
57. Learn to live in the now
58. Make a difference in at least one person's life
59. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
60. Write a travel book
61. Go to The TED Talks
62.Throw out the first pitch at a major league baseball game
63. Cook an entire Thanksgiving meal, from scratch
64. Go to Times Square on New Year's Eve and count down as the ball drops.
65. Sleep in a haunted house
66. Jump into a pool fully clothed

67. Eat something I have grown: tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and so on
68. Travel solo
69. Say You can't fire me, I quit
70. Say to someone Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
71. Do some sort of exercise for 20 minutes, every day, for a year
72. Attend a Murder Mystery Dinner
73. Become a minimalist and whittle my possessions down to only 100 things
74. Be on the Ellen show
75. Form a band
78. Ride in a hot air balloon
79. Race a sports car
80. Spend a weekend with Michael Cera
81. Ride a dune buggy in the desert
82. Visit Museum Of Modern Art (MoMa), Manhattan, New York
83. Dance in the rain
84. Get one arm fully tattooed (Sleeved)
85. Learning how to use "too" right
86. Have dinner with Obama
87. Organize every digital photo in my photo library
88. Leave San Francisco (seems simple, but this is really hard for me)
89. Build a doll house
90. Go on a trip with my brother (just me and him)
91. Learn all the words to Walk This Way and sing a long without making a mistake
92. Make 101 playlists
93. Own a Canon 5D
94. Photograph a wedding
95. Live in an RV and travel for a year
96. Have a positive net worth
97. Own a Chanel suit
98. Stay in a tree house
99. Get kick out of somewhere and say "I've been kicked out of better places than this"
100. Do everything on this list