My Bucket List

This is my bucket list where I list all the things I want to do, feel, experience, see and achieve before I die.

My bucket list currently has 116 items. I will continuously update this as I complete current items and come across new ones. Don’t just read my bucket list though – Create your own too: 101 Things To Do Before You Die.

[First written: 2009; Last Update: Apr 2013]

[Green = My upcoming goals]

1. Pursue my passion and turn it into a career (2009)
2. Live my life with true meaning (2009; ongoing)
3. Win awards for Personal Excellence
4. Be internationally recognized in my personal development work (2011 – PE has an international reader base from over 200 countries now and is recognized as a #1 trusted, go-to source for all things on personal excellence)
5. Be invited to speak overseas (2010 – Started being invited to speak overseas; Nov ’11: Spoke at annual Wharton Marketing Conference in Philadelphia, PA, US)
6. Continue to be invited to speak overseas – be it conferences or institutions (Ongoing)
7. Start my talk show on living your best life (Mar ’13 — Kicked off my brand new video channel, Celes.TV, with this interview. Will be creating more interviews on an ongoing basis!)
8. Develop my talk show to be one of the best and most popular talkshows, benchmarking The Oprah Show, Tyra Show and Ellen Show
9. Be a vegan (Dec ’12: Currently a vegetarian / semi-vegan)
10. See fireflies
11. Achieve my ideal weight
12. Travel to Europe (Jun ’11)
13. Live overseas for an extended period of time (Jun-Aug ’11: Traveled around Europe; Aug – Nov ’11: Stayed in London; Nov ’11: In Manhattan, New York)
14. Travel around Europe (Jun-Sep ’11 – Holland, Germany, Paris)
15. Visit the Eiffel Tower at night (Aug 1, ’11; Visited it on my second night in Paris – Was soaking in its magnificence for a good few seconds there.)
16. Visit London/UK (Aug ’11 – Went to London and stayed there for nearly 3 months. Loved it! London is a huge metropolitan – nice tall buildings, busy streets, multitude of cultures/races/nationality, never ending flow of people. Very much like cities like Singapore/New York, but with an English twist.)
17. Visit New York (Nov ’11 – Arrived at Manhattan)
18. Visit the famous Wall Street (Nov ’11)
19. See the State of Liberty (Nov ’11)
20. Check out the Empire State Building (Nov ’11)
21. Jog in the serenity and quiet shroud of the night (2008)
22. Achieve 10,000 subscribers at Personal Excellence (2010)
23. Achieve 20,000 subscribers at PE (Dec ’10)
24. Achieve 1 million page views / month at PE (Oct ’11: Celebrating… One Million Pageviews / Month)
25. Achieve 2 million page views / month at PE
26. Achieve 5 million page views / month at PE
27. Achieve 10 million page views / month at PE
28. Have a meet-up session with Personal Excellence readers (2011, ongoing: Check out past PE reader meetups)
29. Communicate freely with my brother
30. Astral project (2001)
31. Read other people’s minds
32. Achieve the highest level of consciousness (Enlightenment?)
33. See snow (Oct 2008)
34. Stay awake for 48 hours straight (Mar ’10 — stayed awake for almost 90 hours straight)
35. Visit South America
36. Visit India (Done! Feb ’13 — visited Chennai, India. See pictures here.)
37. Visit South Africa (Mar 27–Apr 22 ’13 — Went to Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa)
38. See the savannah and wild life in South Africa (Done! Apr 4, ’13 — was at Lion Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. Was up close and personal with the lions and lion cubs!! I’m stroking a cub in this picture!!)
39. Create a room I love (2008)
    
40. Have my own apartment
41. Have my dream home
42. Have my own car (maybe?)
43. Get a convertible
44. Have an open connection with my spirit guides (Aug ’11)
45. Reach out to millions around the world and help them to grow and achieve their highest potential (Ongoing)
46. Speak to over 1,000 people (2009)
47. Speak to over 3,000 people
48. Speak to over 5,000 people
49. Speak to over 10,000 people
50. Create my passive income business (Apr ’12 — Check out The Passive Income System to learn how you can create yours too)
51. Achieve six-figure annual revenue for my business
52. Speak to an international audience of thousands of people
53. Be featured in media for my work (2009, ongoing - To date, have been featured in CNN, Cosmopolitan (UK), Business Insider, Channel News Asia, and more. Read: Media section)
54. Appear on TV (Dec ’10, Channel News Asia; I’ve subsequently appeared on other TV programs, usually to share my opinions on personal development topics)
55. Write a book (While I have written and launched 3 books: Personal Excellence Book, 30DLBL and 30BBM, the former was a compilation while the letter 2 are programs. I’m looking to write a book that reads from cover to cover.)
56. Publish a physical book
57. Hit best sellers list
58. Hit New York best sellers list
59. Earn one million dollars
60. Earn one billion dollars
61. Telekinetically move a large object (2008: Moved a Psiwheel)
62. Go horseback riding again (Done! Feb 8, ’13 at Edward Elliot’s Beach in Chennai, India)
63. Fly first class
64. Go sky diving
65. Visit the ancient ruins of Rome
66. Travel around San Francisco on the cable car (Jan 24, ’12 – Visited San Francisco and traveled through the streets on the cable car. Check! )
67. Visit the pyramids at Egypt
68. Ride a camel
69. Walk across a desert
70. Fly in a hot air balloon (Jan 15, ’12 – Went on a hot air balloon in Orange County, California)
71. Explore Antarctica
72. Walk on water
73. Visit Disneyland in America (Jan 16, ’12 – Visited the first ever Disneyland in California!)
74. Go stargazing (Jan 21, ’12 – Unwittingly got this item checked while watching a film in Griffith Observatory, which had a awe-inspiring segment where there was a a mesmerizing, starlit sky)
75. Stay up the whole the night till sunrise conversing and relishing in the company of a good friend (2002)
76. Witness a meteor shower
77. See the Northern Lights
78. Dress up in a costume party (Jul ’08 – Had fun at a costume party in my ex-company)
79. Attend a cosplay event
80. Fly a kite
81. Help out someone in need
82. Soak in the beauty of a sunset (Jun 21, ’11 – At Holland, Noordwijk)
83. Experience a sunrise in its true glory
84. Go trekking in a rainforest
85. Give someone a surprise
86. Lucid dream
87. Swim with dolphins
88. Go whale watching
89. Throw a big party inviting everyone I know and everyone they know
90. Experience cherry blossoms in Japan
91. Explore Louvre in Paris (Aug 4, ’11 – Magnificent. Saw the Mona Lisa. Was awestruck by the richness of historical art pieces and European culture. Napoleon’s Apartments really took my breath away, while the Greek sculptures were hauntingly beautiful.)
92. Explore a castle (Aug 15, ’11 – Visited Windsor Castle in UK, a medieval castle and royal residence.)
93. Dress up as a Santarina
94. Hug a mascot
95. Sleep in a hammock
96. Go camping in the woods
97. Sail out in the sea for a week
98. Have dinner in a location that overlooks the entire city
99. Fly around a city in a helicopter
100. Swim in an ocean
101. Bury a time capsule with key memoirs in a secret location
102. Open the time capsule after 5 years
103. Understand the truth behind the time-space continuum
104. Go on a road trip (Jul ’11 — Went on a road trip while I was in Germany)
105. Learn to cycle (I don’t know how to cycle! Yet. Read #2 in 25 Random Things About Me.)
106. Learn ice skating (Apr 17, ’13 — Learned ice skating in Cape Town, South Africa. Going to take up lessons to become better when I return to Singapore!)
107. Become an expert in ice skating, to the point where I can fast skating, skate backwards, and spin
108. Visit the leaning tower of pisa
109. Thank my parents for everything they have done for me (2009)
110. Learn to drive a car
111. Go snorkeling and experience marine life up close and personal
112. Get a pebble to bounce off the surface of the water 4 times
113. Fly (Apr 18, ’13 — Went paragliding off Lion’s Head in Cape Town, South Africa. Hovered 500 meters off the air for a good ten minutes or so. My mind was COMPLETELY blown away!!! Life shall never be the same again!!)
114. Continuously grow and help others live their best lives (Ongoing)
115. See penguins (Apr, ’13 — Saw the cutest wee lil’ African penguins while I was in Cape Town, South Africa. )
116. Go canoeing (Apr 19, ’13 — Went canoeing at Cape Town, off the Boulders area. Made me fall in love with water and am planning to take up a water sport at the moment. )