I just read The Greatness Guide by Robin Sharma and I loved the idea of the 101 bucket list, I loved the idea since the film but it wasn’t until I read it on the book that I felt the need to make my own list…and make my students do theirs.
- Say I love you more than Turk.
- Get rip.
- Vilain’s arms.
- Be more flexible.
- Buy a handmade suit.
- Do a snow angel
- Go to an Adele’s concert
- Be on a bar fight!
- Drink again with Juan Carlos
- Night out/ movie night with Maria, Patrizia, Johanna, Miguelys y Cristina.
- Make my house eco friendly
- Solar panels
- Induction kitchen
Solar water heating- Energy LED saving lamp
- Garbage recyling
- Plastic
- Organic
- Glass
- Tetrapak
- Paper
- Go to a horse race and place a bet.
- Visit Vegas with my Dad.
- Visit Harvard
- Visit MIT
- Visit Hawai.
- Eat real Taro
- Visit NY
- Ground Zero
- Statue of Liberty
- Central Park
- Visit the Great Canyon.
- Visit Washington DC as the Lost Symbol
- Visit Niagara’s fall.
- Visit Sao Paulo’s carnival
- Mexico
- Huasteca potosina
- Cañon del sumidero.
- Oaxaca para el Guelaguetza
- Los Cabos
- Tijuana
- Monterrey
- Yahualica with Emmanuel Oropeza
- CDMX
2022, CU UNAM
- Cervantino
- Venezuela:
- Medanos de Coro.
- Fly over the Auyan-tepui.
- UCV
- USB
- Visit Harry Potter places:
- Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Florida
- King’s Cross, London
- Visit Netherlands
- Brownie
- Tulips field
- Cruise to the Greek’s islands
- Go to Oktoberfest
- Visit Rusia:
- Kremlin.
- Siberia.
- Visit Istanbul like Inferno
- Visit Geneva
- UN
- Visit Dubai
- Visit Japan
- Cherry blossom.
- Visit the 5 continents, missing:
- Asia
- Oceania
- Africa
- Casablanca
- Real Madrid match at the Bernabeu.
- Zidane’s match at the Bernabeu.
- Live somewhere besides MX/VEN
- Write
- Write a book
- Write a comic.
- Write a new DC multiverse
- Write a successful blog about comics and computer science.
- Learn
- Learn how to hold my breath.
- Learn how to swim
- Learn how to dance
- Learn a martial art
- Learn how to swallow pills
- Learn/Understand music.
- Learn to cook like my mom
- 3 leches
- Pasta de crema de elote
- Home made rice
- Pizza
- Heat leftovers
- Learn to let go.
- Read
- Read the Foundation.
- Read Hitchhikers guide.
- Paperback
- Read Rayuela both ways.
- Not available on kindle, have to find one again
- Read 1984.
- Kindle edition
- Read 100 años de soledad
- Kindle edition
- Read to kill a mockingbird.
- Kindle edition
- Read Dune.
- Read The stranger, Camus.
- Kindle edition
- Read for whom the bell tolls.
- Kindle edition
- Read my CS complete library
- Permanent goals:
- Be Happy
- Read at least 20 books a year
- Live up to my potential
- Make a difference
- Make more mistakes…take more chances
- Be as funny and easy going as my dad
- Be as good in my job as my mom is at hers.
- Be a person that my family can be proud of.
- Be a good loser.
- Spring 17 was a good test!
- Be a good winner.
- Be a good big brother
- Help whoever I can with their list.
- To all my students: No, I won’t simply just pass you .
- Have a relationship with my dad as good as Marshall had with his dad or as good as Rober has with his(Best relationship I have sen in person).
- Have a relationship with my brother as good as Scofield and Burrows
- Be a good citizen
- Overcome the huge disgust to puke.
- Be ready…
- Don’t be afraid to die
- Accomplished
- Drink a whiskey older than me
- March 17, 05.
For my 17th b’day I had a Buchanan’s 18 bottle. - July 31, 05.
For my high school prom a friend and I bought a Blue label bottle that was kind of tampered. - Before I turn 30 yo I will buy Ballantine’s 30
- Not performed, will buy one eventually
- Before I turn 38 yo I will buy a Royal Salute 38
- Before I turn 40 yo I will buy a Ballantine’s 40
- March 17, 05.
- October 05
Cancun - 10/05/05 Wilma
Be on a cat 5 Hurricane.- It wasn’t something to actually put on the list but it was something too big to not put it here.
- March-April 07
Ruinas Mayas - 20/03/08
Be at Chichen-itza at Spring’s equinox. - Late August, 07
Find my Claire Underwood/Tracy M/Lillypad. - 05/05/12
Hear an ex-Beatle sing “Yesterday” - 09/15/13
Have a dinner date that ends after breakfast - 09/15/13
Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world- What would this list be without one from the movie?
- Late 13-Early 14
Date a former teacher - 02/15
Live again with my Mom - 03/15
Live again with my big Brother - 08/15
Live in the same city as my little Sister - 04/24/16
Watch pride and predujice - 05/29/16
Tepa - 10/16
Teach officially at graduate school ( not as a TA) - Movember 16
Grow a lumberjack beard. - Late 16
Read Animal farm. - Late 16
Read How to win friends and influence people. - 4th Q 17
Finish my MBA’s thesis. - Spring break 17
Drink like in the good old days. - 04/13/17
Learn to ride a bike - 05/25/17
Read The Godfather - 04/7/18
Go to a The Killers’ Concert - 07/30/18
Learn snowboarding - 08/06/18
Visit The end of the world-La Patagonia. - July/August, 18
Travel with Abdon - Sep, 2018 Get married
- 2019
Learn to cook my grandma’s meat loaf - July 01,2020
Become a software architect - Jul 20, 2020
Be a Class sponsor/Padrino de generacion.- Words for the Master in Marketing direction, closest I’ve bee
- 2020-2023
Do a PhD. - 2020 Dropped
Have children. - 2020,
Learn to cook/bake chocolate soufflé - 2021, Watched New who
Watch Dr Who. - 2021,
Organize a get together with my granma’s friends and my dad.- …I think I did
- May 2023,
Visit Italy with my Mom - May 2023, Visit the Vatican
- Automate my house.
- 2022, started
- 2023, limited by the poor modem I got, smart plugs and smart cameras on hold
- Retire at 35….or at least young
- Could do, but I want more; new ETA 40
- Dropped
- Teach at another university.
- 2017, started teaching in business school along with engineering school
- 2019, rejected an offer to teach as they wanted me to be a T.A.
- 2021 Drink again with my grandpa on his library.
- Not feasible
- 2017 Date somebody famous
- U know who.
- 2023, Learn French.
- 2023, Learn German
- Teach at another university.
I couldn’t make the cut at 101 so I will keep adding items…maybe I will even add the ones that I already did and didnt put cuz of that.
P.S. If you saw my list, you have to post yours =)