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WelshBloke

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Stretch bucket list would be going to Mars. If they need a human canary volunteer for a one-way trip I'm in.
Not wanting to shit on another man's dreams (but I'm going to because this is the internet) but why?
You'd have to sit in a metal tin can for a year breathing your own farts then when you got there you'd be locked in a basement for ages with the odd trip out into a lifeless desert in a restrictive suit breathing your own farts and shitting in a nappy. And all the while you'd be waiting to die because something trivial but vital went wrong.
 

Red Squirrel

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Yeah the thought of going to Mars sounds cool including the journey, but in reality I think it would be super depressing once the novelty wore off. It's not like there's any kind of nature there, and your every move would probably be tracked and monitored for scientific purposes (much like astronauts on ISS) so it's not like you just have the whole planet to yourself to do what you want and your own private land to have fun on, it's basically all unusable land that you can't do anything on and you more or less report back to mission control at all time. Even if you get paid a lot for it, what good is having money if you can't really enjoy it?
 

Exterous

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You'd have to sit in a metal tin can for a year breathing your own farts then when you got there you'd be locked in a basement for ages with the odd trip out into a lifeless desert in a restrictive suit breathing your own farts and shitting in a nappy. And all the while you'd be waiting to die because something trivial but vital went wrong.

I mean about the only difference for most people on ATOT is that they currently sit in a wood\plaster\drywall can. Everything else is basically the same
 

Azraele

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See, and maybe live in Montana. I saw some pics of it online years ago and fell in love, felt drawn there. As it, my life is stagnant, and I've no idea how to jump start it. I hate this house, etc etc.
 

Scarpozzi

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My bucket list is really a list of goals I'm working daily to achieve....

1. Pay off mortgage
2. Save up for a sailboat
3. Retire early enough to enjoy not working on anything but projects I choose
4. Travel more
 
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Kaido

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Feb 14, 2004
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You'd have to sit in a metal tin can for a year breathing your own farts then when you got there you'd be locked in a basement for ages with the odd trip out into a lifeless desert in a restrictive suit breathing your own farts and shitting in a nappy. And all the while you'd be waiting to die because something trivial but vital went wrong.

Kind of sounds like my old job at the server farm tbh
 

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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- Visit Maldives, Tahiti, and Bora Bora
- Stay in an overwater bungaloe at one of those places
- Do a liveaboard dive trip
- Move to the Caribbean
 
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TXHokie

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Not wanting to shit on another man's dreams (but I'm going to because this is the internet) but why?
You'd have to sit in a metal tin can for a year breathing your own farts then when you got there you'd be locked in a basement for ages with the odd trip out into a lifeless desert in a restrictive suit breathing your own farts and shitting in a nappy. And all the while you'd be waiting to die because something trivial but vital went wrong.
Everything you described sounds exciting to me. The ultimate camping/survival trip into the unknown.
 

nisryus

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Completed my study and training in the next two years and move from Sysadmin/DevOps to SecOps.
Visit more national forests
Visit most, if not all, historical sites in the East Coasts.

Lastly, visit France, Germany, Norway, Eastern Bloc, Japan, Egypt... Wait, i need to make tons of money first. Not to mention helping the kid to med school... ouch, that will cost a lot.
 

Scarpozzi

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- Visit Maldives, Tahiti, and Bora Bora
- Stay in an overwater bungaloe at one of those places
- Do a liveaboard dive trip
- Move to the Caribbean
You should add Fiji to that list. While you're there, try their tap water. They bottle that stuff, ya know.
 

WelshBloke

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Everything you described sounds exciting to me. The ultimate camping/survival trip into the unknown.
To me camping involves being outdoors, exploring nature, being free of technology and being able to roam. None of which is happening on Mars.
 

Red Squirrel

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Oh man, imagine the cell phone roaming fees once you get to lower earth orbit, let alone Mars. That would cripple NASA's entire budget if an astronaut on a rocket forgot to turn off their work cell.
 

Exterous

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Anyone cross anything off that was much better or worse than you were expecting?

Flying in a B-17 was on mine for a long time and that was much better than I was expecting
 

Dr. Detroit

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I feel I cant accomplish much while being locked into a 40+hr work week while running a dept so the big bucket list item right now is to retire. Goal was to retire at 45 but I cant walk away from the equity so I'll be out by 47 - less than 2yrs from now.

Every year I get a few trips in - lots of National park visits to see new things but never enough to fully explore the intricacies of the parks - especially the back country areas.

  • Thru hike - PCT, JMT, AZT, CDT
  • Backpack through Oaxaca (Mazunte, Puerto Escondido, Huatulco)
  • Learn to kite board (San Diego, Mission/Sail Bay)
  • Tour Florida from the Keys to the Swamps up North
  • So much hiking to do in Utah - I could spend a month in Escalante alone
  • Portugal coast for 3-6 months
  • Patagonia South America
  • 4-corners in the Southwest and get to know the Navajo & Hopi Nation
  • Kentucky Derby and the Bourbon trail of KY & TN
  • New Zealand - Te Araroa
  • TJ to Cabos overland
 

MtnMan

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Short term, see Trump removed from office by whatever means necessary.
 

MtnMan

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Anyone cross anything off that was much better or worse than you were expecting?

Flying in a B-17 was on mine for a long time and that was much better than I was expecting
I got to do that about 10 years ago. Won the ride on a raffle ticket my grandson's scout troop used as a fund raiser. Best $5 plane ride I ever had. The B17 was Aluminum Overcast. And a I got a whole new appreciation for what those air crews went through. I actually met Col. Robert Morgan, Memphis Belle pilot, as I went to school with one of his sons.
 
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Captante

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On that tangent:

1. Having a bucket list increases the odds of checking things off on your bucket list because you have clear targets to shoot at. No targets = no direction = no progress = hard to hit a target you can't see.

2. Some of the most effective people I know always keep a detailed 5-year plan & almost always accomplish it in half the time. This is because (1) it's fairly short-term, which forces you to move ideas into the goals column, which means you take a grand, fuzzy idea & make it concrete and doable, and (2) because life seems to drastically change every few years. Most people have told me that where they are today was not where they thought they would be 5 years ago. So simply making a detailed 5-year plan & then committing to working on it means you're integrating some bucket-list items & converting them into actionable projects, and then actually making progress on them.

3. "Believe you can, believe you can't, either way, you're right!". One quote I heard regarding this was "the thing you really believe always happens". Not in a phony kind of way, but in a foregone-conclusion type of way: if you want to do something but deep down think you can't, you'll never take the first step, which means you'll never take the second step, and so one. As Waynze Gretzsky said, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take". If you have a wish but don't really believe you can achieve it, or never bother clarifying it to the point where it's something you can really do, then it's kind of hard to get into motion on & get that motor turning because you're already defeated before you've even started. We tend to box ourselves in with our personal beliefs & worldviews, not realizing that we are, in fact, our own biggest barrier: not our situation, not our limitations, not our current financial story, but rather just being willing to clearly defining what we want & then not allowing ourselves to take no as an answer from ourselves. If you can't get over the mountain, go around the mountain! There's always a way to do something you want to do if you're willing to explore more than just one path forward!

The problem is that most people are content with what I call the BrainSnap, which is where you look at something & think "seems hard, I quit", whether it's making a bucket list or a 5-year plan or deciding that you're going to do something & decide you're not willing to give up until you achieve it. Everyone does this in at least some situations; the key is recognizing that we have control over our reactions to things & that just because the BrainSnap happens doesn't mean we have to believe it or let it define our behavior or our thinking. This was a huge step forward in maturity for me when I figured it out a few years ago...there were a lot of things I wanted to do, but would basically rage-quit before I even got started. This meme illustrates it perfectly:

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Once I let go of my ego & accepted the fact that I was the one intentionally putting the stick in the bike wheel of my life & stopping all forward progress on an idea (whether I was aware of it or not), I gained the courage to get back up & gave myself permission to find another way to attack it, rather than just quitting. From personal experience, this level of responsibility is something that most people immediately reject & refuse to even consider (because we all want to play the victim), but the bottom line is that the only person you're short-changing is yourself. Giving yourself the permission to achieve great results, maintain great states of living, and obtain great assets is simply a person choice that requires grit, aka not giving up until you've found a way to get what you want, which is more or less the key to success:


We can blame everyone else, we can blame our situation, we can quit, we can give up, but none of those things will give you the results you want; as soon as you realize you have the power to keep chipping away at things & to look at things from a new perspective & try new things, then suddenly you have the power to do things like make a bucket list & check items off your bucket list. I wasted a lot of time (still do!) on nonsense growing up & it took me a really long time to get my act together & realize that no one was going to spoon-feed me what I wanted other than me. It's incredibly easy to sit around & do nothing all the time, but it's waaaaay more fulfilling to work on great things that you really want to do!



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Tony Robbins? That you??? ;)
 
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