I don't normally do these list videos of highly viral topics but I started
researching some things for my own bucket list and wanted to share some of
the things that I've came up with so in today's video I'm gonna be giving you
ten things that you can do and that you should do before you die you see most
people live life on autopilot and never really do what they want to do they live
the nine-to-five they do the four to six years of college blah blah blah most
days are exactly like the others but here are some things that will make your
days different and at the end I'll explain the psychological advantage of
having a bucket list number one volunteering your time volunteering your
time is a great way to make a big difference in other people's lives and
in your own community the reason is because it's so easy to live life only
thinking about what we can do for ourselves but when we shift our focus to
helping others incredible things start happening studies have shown the
volunteering helps counteract the effects of stress anger and anxiety this
is why it's so essential that volunteering your time is at least part
of your monthly schedule also it's really easy to find places as a
volunteer locally a few different places to volunteer are your local food bank
visiting a Senior Center coaching local youth teams or even offering a family to
help during the seasonal time and if you don't try any of the other nine things
on this list please please actually try volunteering number two is go skydiving
if you've ever had the opportunity of listening to one of Will Smith's
motivational speeches then you've probably heard of the story of his very
first skydiving trip he explains how he agreed to go skydiving with a few
friends when they were out drinking at first he thought it was just a joke but
once he got back to his hotel room the emotion of fear hit him knowing that
he's probably gonna be jumping out of an airplane the next day Ethan goes on to
explain how they're on the edge of an airplane 30,000 feet up they're scared
and terrified however something magical happens right after he jumps once they
jump out he says in one second you realize that it's the most blissful
experience of your life you're flying there's absolutely zero fear you realize
at the point of maximum danger is the point of minimum fear it's bliss why
were you scared in your bed last night what do you need that fear for you see
skydiving is a great way to push past fear and it's pretty accessible to
anyone I could go skydiving tomorrow for around two hundred dollars and I do plan
on going skydiving in 2019 in fact my younger sister who has a form of
epilepsy actually has already went and had a blast skydiving number three is to
hike to a Mount Everest base camp now I'm definitely not a hiker but being
able to hike to the base camp at Mount Everest is
my bucket list and it should be on yours too standing at around 16,000 feet Mount
Everest base camp is where hikers prepare to some at the 21 mile hike to
the top compared to some budding the entire mountain being able to reach just
the base camp will only take you around a week and the amazing thing about just
going to the base camp is that you have already made it farther than 99% of the
people who never try many people have said that just the view hiking towards
the top makes it worthwhile number four is to witness the Northern Lights the
next destination on your list or your bucket list should be the aurora
borealis also known as the Northern Lights
now these bright lights are caused by a series of solar explosions that interact
with the atmosphere around both the North and the South Pole basically it's
the sun's plasma that hits earth though it can be very hard to see them at
specific times of the year or at different places on earth there are
specific places in Greenland where they can show for up to 300 days of the year
one of the reasons that it's so important to go see them is because
scientists say that they're starting to fade they also state that Northern
Lights run in 11 years cycles and the last time they were at their peak was in
2013 also I recommend to bring your camera even though it won't capture the
full experience it'll be awesome to show your friends and family number 5 is just
a short little three day bicycle trip now I've actually done this one before
but I highly recommend you trying it too first off it takes training I actually
trained for 2 to 3 months just cycling around my in town for around an hour a
day until the week before and I actually spent a whole day
cycling a friend and I went on the Katy Trail in Missouri around two years ago
we hooked up tents sleeping bags and all the food we thought we needed and then
just took off the first day was awesome we saw all kinds of neat nature stuff
the second day was the longest we biked around 60 miles that day and if you've
never done it before oh man my legs were so sore at night I had to sleep on my
back which is a really weird sleeping position for me because laying on my
sides or my stomach would cause so much pain in my exhausted thigh muscles the
third day was all uphill and honestly it sucks pretty bad too however the whole
trip was a success and we bonded a lot it's amazing how far your body can go if
you push it in fact I thought I'd lose some weight during the trip because we
were burning so many calories but I actually gained a pound or two now I
believe this is because of the high carb diet and possibly even the increase in
muscle mass which is denser than fat mass but I'm no expert definitely one of
my most adventurous and fun to look back on experiences number six is really
simple just learn a new skill and try to become a master at it has there ever
been something in your life that you have been wanting
to learn if you have doubts on your abilities or you don't feel that you
have the time whatever your reason is you should take the time to learn a new
skill whether you're learning a new language or an instrument or online
marketing is a great way to experience new things in life usually flow is also
really easy to achieve when you're starting to learn something new if you
had the opportunity to visit a nursing home and ask the residents what they
would say if they could change their lives it would be to go out and do more
things that they felt was out of their comfort zone
life is too short to stay in our comfort zone and not reach our full potential
and you don't actually have to become a master at a new skill you're trying to
learn for example my dad who is almost 60 years old recently bought a bagpipe
kit to try to learn how to learn the bagpipes he played it for about two or
three weeks and decided bagpiping wasn't for him but he tried even if you only
have a limited amount of time each day it's been proposed in many books that if
you practiced just one hour a day for five years your skill level will be the
golden one percent in fact if you become good enough at it your new skill could
even unlock a new income number seven is to start your business now I'm pretty
passionate about this one there's a quote that says the graveyard is a
richest place on the earth this is because there are millions of ideas
buried that could have changed the world but were never created whether it was
because those people were scared or they just didn't want to take the time to
start something we will never know but what we do know is is that little idea
that's sitting in the back of your brain it needs to be created so for me I
started practical psychology with animated book summaries and now my
vision is a whole university of psychology courses I've actually already
created the psychology of Attraction the psychology of selling and the psychology
of productivity my goal is to change the world by helping people understand how
their own brain works and to improve themselves you can contribute to this
goal by checking out my courses in the description link but it's going to
happen whether you check it out or not there will be a practical university one
day I've already helped hundreds of students
and now have tons of happy reviews and testimonies from now it's just growing
my simple business idea is now my entire vision and purpose and because of this
starting your own business is something I encourage you to do even if you fail
you'll learn a lot number eight is to publish a book what a lot of people
think is that they can't write a book because they don't have a story to tell
that's not true at all everyone has a story to tell and yours is just as great
as any others one of my students actually wrote a great book and I
related to it a lot you can check it out in the description below also if you're
interested it doesn't have to be a hundred thousand words and it doesn't
need to even sell five hundred copies just the act of you committing to share
your own story or stories that you've heard will be beneficial in many ways in
fact next year I plan on writing my own book I want to give a huge thank you to
Skillshare for sponsoring this video and having a ton of courses on how to write
your own book I've actually been researching book
writing tips and tricks for a little while now and the courses on skill sure
are very helpful on this topic skills share is one of the most affordable and
in my opinion best learning platforms out there they have all kinds of
professional courses on topics like body language DSLR camera setups intro to
psychology memorization techniques and little things like copywriting whatever
you want to learn Skillshare probably has a class taught by a decent expert on
the topic including writing your own book now ideas skills here for a while
now and I'm honored to be sponsored by them and you guys know I'm super picky
with my sponsorships so today they've given me a deal to offer you
if you want to support Skillshare and help me with my vision of the practical
university one day an annual membership to all of the courses is less than $10 a
month which is actually a ridiculous bargain because some of these courses
should sell alone for more than three hundred dollars each so let's get on the
number nine the next bucket item on our list is literally out of this world I'm
talking about visiting another planet while it might not be possible at the
exact moment companies are making tremendous strides and habit ating other
planets this is happening so quickly that a lot of people are saying we will
most likely see commercial spaceflight available in the next 10 to 15 years
though we might not know the atotal expenses right now I can see becoming
pretty affordable once the market of spaceflight starts to increase
who knows what might be possible in the next 20 years besides just visiting
another planet things are changing really fast guys and
the last thing on the list of things I'm giving you is to visit an active volcano
well we usually only see the volcanoes that are on TV causing havoc whenever
they erupt there are actually 51 currently active volcanoes around the
world though two-thirds of them are technically underwater in the ocean
there are still a few that are active above land
there's something about volcanoes that sparks the imagination of humans I
definitely want to see one one day and I think you'd enjoy it too you should
leave a comment below if you've experienced a volcano before creating a
bucket list is essential to being able to get all the experiences of your
limited lifetime you don't need to create hundreds of items at the moment
but you can add more as time goes on and your curiosities change the way humans
brains work if there isn't a goal the event is much less likely to happen so
start creating your own bucket list to give your brain some simple lifelong
goals I've been doing a ton of research on productivity and goals
lately and having something like a bucket list or a list of things someone
wants to do but hasn't done yet makes them much more likely to happen because
it's something called the Zeigarnik effect something I've explained in other
videos anyways thank you guys so much for watching and check out skill share
with the link in the description because I scored a deal that you guys could get
two months for free to try out skill share if you want to check out the
course that I recommend about writing your own book my favorite is titled self
publish a best-selling book where Peggy teaches you how to outline write publish
and even price your book I highly recommend it again thank you guys so
much for watching