I love inspiring people and one of the reasons I love inspiring people is that it forces me (in a good way) to be living what I’m speaking. To follow my dreams too so it is never a case of ‘do as I say / write and not as I do’. To date I feel so grateful that I can say I really have followed my dreams and I don’t sit here with any regrets. I wish there were 36 hours in every day or that I could have my twenties again because I would happily have pursued some other paths I know I would have also enjoyed. But honestly – it has been a great, rewarding and satisfying journey TO DATE. I want to die in a huff. To be ashes rather than dust. To live an incredible life without regret, to make a difference and to live a life that inspires others.
So with that in mind, here’s an ever evolving list of things to do before I die … my bucket list …
- visit every continent
- write a book
- become a lifeguard
- speak in front of more than 10,000 people
- become an Olympian and compete at the Olympics
- learn to play guitar
- go sea-kayaking through some of the south pacific islands
- learn to fly a helicopter
- drive and navigate around non-english speaking countries. Arrive in a country without knowing where to stay and figure it out.
- own my own horse and totally bond with it in natural horsemanship ways
- get a tube whilst surfing
- put my feet in every ocean
- Meet the woman of my dreams. Exceedingly, abundantly, more than I can ever ask or imagine. My soul mate. My best friend.
- feel half confident in the kitchen and even enjoy cooking
- be as fit as someone ten years my junior. Continue to do so.
- live in another country where English isn’t the first language
- Speak another language fluently
- Travel to a 3rd world country and visit projects that I know I have instigated in my philanthropic/charity based executive role. Know that I am making a massive difference in their lives. Stop, enjoy and be satisfied and content.
- Do an annual holiday with friends
- spent more time with grandma
- host a dinner party with some amazing people invited eg the likes of Nelson Mandella, Anthony Robbins, people that absolutely inspire me.
- Live in a ski resort and do a ski-season
- Feel like I’m one of those few that is actually living my dream. Not conformed by what society tells you you should do. Construct my own life.
- be a professional sportsman
- say grace at the table with my own family
- take more photos
- institute the jeremy rolleston cocktail half hour / jeremy rolleston date night
- live such an amazing, inspiring and influential life that they make a ‘This is Your Life’ about me.
- See someone get a cataract operation that I have paid for and go in blind and come out seeing !
- Run a 1 day seminar that is packed out and people get a lot out of and is successful (as measured by their response)
- Do something that people thought was absolutely left field and impossible for me to do and do it successfully – The Propeller Fashion Show
- Do a dirtbike trip with mates.
- So a surfing trip with mates.
- Get an incredible mentor in my life
- Get a massage every week
- Have a very random conversation to an old person in a pub, hear their story and realise they are amazing and that it was my privilege to have that conversation
Stay tuned !
Rollo, you continue to inspire and I love your passion in ‘constructing your own happiness and life’ not just being a bystander or passive participant.
Your bucket list echoes a few of my own – especially the excitement of landing in a new country with the unknown of where you’ll be placing your head at night. Being a confident cook (I’m not sure that will ever come for me).
Rollo, you encourage me and many others to dream again in colour! To wake up out of the hum drum of life, and to truly see life and all it’s glory, through new eyes. Thank you my friend.
Ness
Hi Rollo,
With many thanks to you and Ness for inspiration, I have finally written and posted my bucket list. I posted it here:
http://aliciamloveless.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/bucket-list/
It’s a bit of a short list, a work in progress I guess, but you’re so right, it was fun to do and I have already started some things without consciously thinking of the B-list.
See you! Alicia
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