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Things To Do Before You Die From: Personal Excellence Here are some items to consider for your bucket list.  Look through the list — any item that resonates with you? Take the items that resonate and use them for your own list! For your convenience, I’ve included useful resources (hand-picked by yours truly) to aid you in your bucket-list quest. Note that the list below is a sample list of things you can put for your own list. If you are curious about *my* bucket list, you can find it here: My bucket list.1. Travel all around the world Traveling — it’s the single best activity that exposes you to new cultures, broaden your mind, move out of your comfort zone, allow you to meet new people, and experience the wonders of the world. I’m a strong advocate of traveling and have in fact traveled widely around the world in the past years. In 2011, I went on a 7-month non-stop trip around Europe and U.S. where I met PE readers from around the world and held PE readers meetup in London, London again, New York, and Los Angeles. I’ve subsequently been to Kuala Lumpur, India, South Africa, Hong Kong, Scotland, and Hong Kong where I held PE reader meetups in all of them (except India). All in all, I’ve spent about 50% of my time between 2011 to 2013 traveling! I look forward to visiting new places such as South America, Canada, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand moving forward. How about you? What new countries would you like to visit? 2. Learn a new language Foreign Language Learning a new language is never easy but it’s so satisfying when you are able to converse with someone in a foreign language! I admire people who are multi-lingual — I’m personally fluent in only English and Mandarin while having functional knowledge of Hokkien, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. I hope to learn a few foreign languages — Spanish being one of them — in the future. 3. Try a profession in a different field What profession are you in now and how long have you been doing this? Is it time for a change in profession? It’s nice to do something different from what you have been doing, and it doesn’t have to involve quitting your current job — you can always experiment with volunteer work in a field you enjoy or start up a part-time business on the side. It’s all about expanding your horizon and trying something new. 4. Achieve your ideal weight Yoga Exercise I used to be a severe binge eater (a story which I’ve shared in My Journey with Emotional Eating series) and making the commitment to overcome my emotional eating, live healthily, and lose my excess weight has been one of the single best decisions I’ve made in my life. Make the commitment to be healthy. What is your ideal weight? Are you at your ideal weight today? What can you do to start being healthy? Some weight loss resources: 5. Run a marathon Running a marathon A marathon is a long-distance race of 42.2 km (26.2 miles) long — definitely not an easy feat that requires training and hard work! Training and completing a marathon will not only develop you in your physical strength and endurance, but also your mental persistence, will, and attitude. These are just a few ideas to start you thinking about the most important years of your life...the time is now. Everyone dies...few really live. |
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An inspiring blog. It reminds me about someone whom I met in Luneburg, West Germany in the year 1976 while learning German language before undertaking an executive training program in one of the three the then largest German Commercial Banks. This gentleman advised me to buy a monthly railway ticket to travel the European Cities on weekly holidays at a cheaper rate. And I did it. What a great way to come across different people and cultures slowly by choosing a City as base to stay during workdays!! Since then , I have traveled a lot, have seen cities located in Far Eastern countries including Japan, Indian sub-continental cities ,many Middle Eastern and North African Countries including the United States. Unfortunately, my life long ambition to visit Peru is yet to be fulfilled. I can speak, read and write some different languages too. I am now trying to learn Creole language so that I could talk to my dear friend who hails from an island nation! My next destination will be Peru. Thanks again for this wonderful blog, Adolpho and live long and prosper!!
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3/29/2016 9:56 am |
If you think running a marathon is hard, look up the Barkley Marathon. 130 miles in under 60 hours, through forest, and part of it is at night. Elevation gain of 12,000 feet over the course. It was several years before anyone finished it.
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3/29/2016 9:58 am |
Learning another language can be relatively easy if it's related to one you already know. I speak French and Polish, so another romance or slavic tongue would not be that hard.
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