Kathrin’s Bucket List
I have put off creating and maintaining a bucket list for years now. Yeah, I said years! Writing down the things I want to see and experience is a bit scary, especially since I am publishing them for the world to see….that’s you! One of my goals (post coming) for 2011 is to hold myself accountable for what I achieve and for the ways I often stand in my own way of being successful.
The buck stops here, ladies and gents!
I am tired of standing in my own way of experiencing life and seeing the world. It’s exhausting! Life is short and I don’t want to waste another minute. There are so many people, placed and things I want to experience. So, here we go….
Professional Bucket
- Be a part of the solution.
- Build KI Consulting into a self-sustaining business.
- Have clients in Germany.
- Have clients in England.
- Have clients in Cuba.
- Have clients in Spain.
- Help end poverty and oppression.
- Pay off my student loans
- Pursue and Obtain my PhD
- Be invited to speak at national and international conferences on blogging, race, lgbt, mixed roots and nonprofit issues.
- Write and publish my memoir
- Get an article published in the New Yorker
- Get an article published in the Huffington Post
- Write and publish a novel
- Write an eBook
- Complete NaNoWriMo
- Write a Children’s book
- Write a cookbook
- Be recognized a an authority in my field
- Leave a valuable contribution in my field of expertise
- Start my own business (May 2010)
- Own a coffee bar
- Make a documentary film
- Become an attorney
- Become a freelance writer (August 2003)
- Design a website
- Create a YouTube video
Personal Bucket
- Find my soul mate.
- Get married.
- Have two children.
- Build a relationship with my sister.
- Have incredible make-up sex.
- Create a trust fund for my (yet to be conceived and born) child
- Receive a huge bouquet of roses from someone I love.
- Continuously grow and help others live their best lives.
- Raise a happy and healthy child (two ideally)
- Adopt a child.
- Create a home with an inviting, joyous, and loving atmosphere.
- Pass on a family heirloom to my child
- Design a home.
- Learn to forgive.
- Learn to meditate.
- Experience bliss.
- Learn Spanish.
- Record a song.
- Learn how to play the piano.
- Learn how to play the guitar.
- Learn Portuguese.
- Learn Arabic.
- Race a stock car.
- Meet my birthfather and his family.
- Meet and have conversations with people I admire and respect:
- Victoria Robinson
- Adele Sakler
- Christina Gilpin
- Queen Rania of Jordan
- Aime Cesaire
- Angela Davis
- Dr. Cornel West
- Dr. Melissa Harris Pierce (Princeton)
- Prerna Lal
- Learn to say “I Love you” in 50 languages.
- Learn sign language.
- Record a song.
- Allow myself to make mistakes.
- Become more of a morning person.
- Become a better public speaker.
- Learn to say “no” without feeling guilty.
- Make a difference in at least one person’s life.
- Build a Habitat for Humanity Home.
- Donate a million dollars to a charity of my choice.
- Found a Giving Circle.
- Found a MicroLoan Program
Health Bucket
- Achieve my ideal weight.
- Wear a bikini.
- Learn how to salsa (2008)
- Learn how to bachata (2008)
- Dance salsa and bachata in a showcase.
- Run a half marathon.
- Cut down on processed foods
- Learn to surf.
- Try fencing.
- Have a 6 pack
- Go canoeing and kayaking.
- Learn how to rhumba.
- Learn how to tango.
- Learn how to belly dance.
Travel Bucket
- Spend part of the year in the Caribbean and in Europe.
- Spend summer vacations in the Adirondacks.
- Take my parents on a vacation abroad.
- Visit the ancient ruins of Rome.
- Visit the pyramids at Egypt.
- Ride a camel.
- Go paragliding.
- Go skydiving.
- Swim with sharks.
- Visit all 50 states.
- See Mount Rushmore.
- Visit all 7 continents.
- Attend Marti Gras in New Orleans
- Attend the national Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC.
- Attend la Tomatina in Valencia, Spain.
- Explore the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Explore the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Itlany
- Explore El Prado in Madrid, Spain
- Explore Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France (1994…and a few times thereafter)
- Explore the Parthenon in Greece
- Attend an opera at the Sydney Opera House (Australia)
- Explore the Kremlin
- Visit the wreckage of the Titanic aboard a submarine.
- Visit Bora Bora
- Visit Mecca
- Go on a cruise.
- Go on a cross-country motorcycle trip.
- Jump from a cliff into deep water.
- Fly in a hot-air balloon across a country.
- Walk across a desert.
- Visit Egypt and tour the Paramids.
- Witness a meteor shower.
- See the Northern Lights.
- Swim with dolphins.
- Camp in the Adirondacks.
- Stand on a glacier.
- Swim the Coral Reefs.
- SCUBA dive in the Caribbean.
- Learn how to sail.
- Go on a road trip across the United States.
- ‘Do as the Romans’ do at Copacabana Beach (Brazil)
- Attend Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Bike across the Egyptian Desert
- Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
- Chichen Itza (Mexico)
- Christ the Redeemer (Brazil)
- Climb Machu Picchu (Peru)
- Colosseum (Italy)
- Colossus of Rhodes
- Dance in Old Havana (Cuba)
- Dance Tango in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Delta Works (Netherlands)
- Drive up the Pacific Coast of Central America
- Empire State Building (New York, NY) (Summer 2003)
- Experience the Day of the Dead festival in Todos Santos (Guatemala)
- Explore Harrison’s Cave (Barbados)
- Explore Hatra (Iraq)
- Explore Manuel Antonio National Park (Costa Rica)
- Explore Mayan Ruines at Chichen Itza and Tulum
- Explore Parque Nacionales Canaima (Venzuela)
- Explore Petra and the Dead Sea
- Explore Sinai (Egypt)
- Explore Sugar Loaf Mountain Brazil)
- Explore the Ancient city of Alepp (Syria)
- Explore the Aquila Game Reserve (South Africa)
- Explore the Coptic Museum
- Explore the Gold Museum (Colombia)
- Explore the Larco Museum (Peru)
- Explore the Moreno Glaciers (Argentina and Chile)
- Explore the National Museum of Beirut (Lebanon)
- Explore the National Museum of Damascus (Syria)
- Explore the Old City of Acre
- Explore the Old City of Jerusalem
- Explore the Valley of the Kings
- Explore Tortunguero National Park (Costa Rica)
- Explore Um er-Rasas (Jordan)
- Galápagos Islands
- Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, CA)
- Great Barrier Reef
- Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt)
- Great Wall of China
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- Iguazu Falls (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay)
- Itaipu Dam (Barana River bw Brazil and Paraguay)
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Lighthouse of Alexandria
- Machu Picchu (Peru)
- Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
- Northern Red Sea
- Explore the Louvre (1995…and several times thereafter)
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Petra (Jordan)
- Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
- Pray at Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Turkey
- Pray at the Al-Omari Mosque (Lebanon)
- Pray at the Blue Mosque (Turkey)
- Pray at the Chora Church (Turkey)
- Pray at the church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Pray at the Dome of the Rock
- Pray at the Western Wall
- Pray in every church in Vatican City (Italy)
- Pray in the Alabaster Mosque (Egypt)
- Pray in the Basilica at Higuey (Dominical Republic)
- See the Nazca Lines (Peru)
- See the Statue of Saladin (Syria)
- Spend a Pascha in Palestine following Yeshua’s footsteps
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- Stonehenge (England)
- Taj Mahal (India)
- Take a hot air balloon ride in Dubai
- Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- Travel through the Panama Canal (Panama)
- Visit Cyprus (both sides)
- Visit Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Visit the Baths (Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands)
- Whitewater Rafting on the Pacuare River (Costa Rica)
- Wine Tasting in Santiago (Chile)
- Zip Line through the Amazon Rain Forest (Thanks, Hanne Blank!)
