MotivATE Me

My name is Kevin. I am a student, wanderer, and working towards becoming a scuba diving instructor. I wish to travel and experience life to its fullest, being able to see and do things that most people only day dream about.

My Impossible List

Life Goals

 

• Change one person’s life for the better.

 

• Find something I am truly passionate about.

 

• Surround myself with people I love, who also do what they truly love.

 

Fitness Goals

 

• Run a 5K Marathon

 

• Run a 10k Marathon

 

• Compete in a Triathlon

 

• Get a six pack (Not a starving person one, I mean 300 type six pack.)

 

• Bench twice my weight

 

Travel Goals 

 

• Visit Every Continent

North America 

South America

Europe 

Asia

Australia

Antarctica

Africa

 

• Visit Every State in the U.S.

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona 

Arkansas

California 

Colorado 

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida 

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa 

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota 

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada 

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico 

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon 

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas 

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

 

• Go Swimming in Every Ocean

Pacific 

Atlantic

Indian

Arctic

Southern/Antarctic

 

• Travel for a year straight living out of an Airstream Trailer

 

• Visit the four corners region, USA

 

• See The Sedlec Ossuary - Church of Bones

 

• Hike the Grand Canyon

 

• Visit the Amazon Rainforest

 

• Become Fluent in four languages

1)      English

2)      Spanish (Not completely fluent yet.)

3)      German (Just started)

 

• Live in a high rise condo with an amazing view

 

• Own a small flat in two different countries

 

• Work on a self-sufficient farm/ranch for a month

 

• Play beach soccer in Brazil

 

• Live in the heart of New York City, Boston, San Francisco, or another major city for at least a year

 

Minimalism Goals

 

• Go without the internet for a month 

 

• Own less than 200 things 

 

• Go without a car for a month 

 

• Produce my own fruit, vegetables, and herbs. 

 

• Go without television for a month 

 

• Create a “Getaway” Backpack 

 

Adrenaline Goals

 

• Go skydiving

 

• Scuba dive a large ship wreck

 

• Make love in three places I am not supposed to 

 

• Swim with sharks

 

• Learn to surf

 

• Go rowing

 

• Learn to fly a plane

 

• Cliff jump in Waimea

 

• Hike The Stairway to Heaven in Kaneohe, Hawaii

 

• Go deep sea fishing and learn to fillet and cook my own fish

 

• Go rock climbing 

 

• Spend a night pub-hopping in London

 

• Party on 6th Street in Austin, Texas

 

• Do a cross country road trip

 

• Climb a volcano

 

• Drink warm beer out of a barrel in a REAL Irish Pub

 

• Enter an eating contest

 

• Visit a high-end Las Vegas strip club

 

• Ride a camel across a sandy desert.

 

• Go white water rafting

 

• Go snowboarding at five different locations

Ruidoso, New Mexico

Breckenridge, Colorado

 

• Learn to Tango and Salsa dance

 

• Take a shower under a waterfall

 

• Go skinny dipping in a large body of water

 

• Sleep on a beach under the stars

 

• Catch a ride in a hot air balloon

 

• Stand up in front of a large audience and tell a joke

 

• Shoot a gun

 

• Ride a bicycle down a mountain road

 

• Bare all on a nude beach

 

Random

 

• Master one really cool magic trick

 

• Read at least twenty Books

1) Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs* - Chuck Klosterman

2) I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max

3) Metamorphosis - Ovid

4) The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran

5) The Divine Comedy - Dante

6) Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler (need to finish!)

7) The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins (just started)

8) The Devil in The Kitchen - Marco Pierre White

9) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

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• Attain a solid understanding of how the government works in my country

 

• Master a few fancy dinner recipes 

 

• Gain an understanding about wine

 

 

Events to Attend

 

• Burning Man

 

• Coachella

 

• Warp Tour 

 

• Oktoberfest in Munich

 

• Mardi Gras in New Orleans

 

• Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

 

• Red Sox vs. Yankees game in Fenway Park

 

• A Dallas Cowboys game in their new stadium

 

• An AC Milan, FC Barcelona, or Real Madrid game.

 

• Spring Break in all its glory in Cancun, Mexico or Panama City Beach, Florida

 

• Electric Daisy Carnival

 

• Holi - Colour Festival in India

 

• New Years Eve in Times Square

 

• A World Cup soccer game

 

• Running of the Bulls

 

• See a Lucha Libre match in Mexico

 

Professional Goals

 

• Finish college

 

• Start a nonprofit organization

 

• Find a job I truly love

 

• Create a scholarship or other way to help give the youth from my hometown the opportunity to gain a higher education

 

• Write a book