My Impossible List

My Impossible List is based on a movement started by Joel Runyon over at Impossible HQ. I first read about it over at College Info Geek and really connected with the concept of it. Joel describes the list as a challenge. It’s not about settling for what’s possible in your life, but instead striving towards goals that you didn’t think possible, and growing as you work towards and achieve them.

This will be a lifelong working document that I add to, change, tick off and elaborate on as I pursue my journey. Your Impossible List is meant to be a fluid document that changes as you do, and a record of what you’ve done and still wish to do. I’ve included a few of my fun/miscellaneous goals in here, not necessarily big challenges, but goals I want to complete nonetheless.

Last Updated: 25th November 2018

Health and Fitness Goals

• Abstain from eating anything with added sugar for an entire month
• Run in a ParkRun event
• Run 3km non-stop
• Complete 20 push-ups in a row
• Complete an unassisted pull up
• Be flexible enough to do the splits
• Attend a martial arts class
• Attend a beginners dance class

Professional Goals

• Complete my university degree
• Create a public slide deck
• Get published in a major online publication
• Give a live talk/presentation
• Start a business
• Build my personal and business network
• Gain a solid understanding of basic financial principles
• Work in the UK

Online Goals

• Get 1000 website visitors in a month
• Setup and distribute my monthly newsletter
• Self-publish an eBook
• Speak on a Podcast episode as a guest
• Create a video for my online portfolio
• Learn how to create and publish an online course
• Gain my first $1,000 of side income
• Create an iPad/iPhone App

Creative Goals

• Cook 50 different dishes
• Create a piece of artwork for my wall
• Learn basic calligraphy skills
• Bake and decorate a large themed cake
• Write a song
• Learn to play a full song on the ukulele

Travel Goals

• Go backpacking by myself (minimum of two weeks)
• Visit Hobbiton in New Zealand
• Visit Disneyland
• Visit Harry Potter World
• Travel to a country in South-East Asia
• Walk part of the Camino de Santiago
• Visit an Island country
• Road Trip around Australia
• See the Pyramids in Egypt
• Work on a cruise ship
• Take a group tour
• Visit NASA
• Visit Lietchersen (small European country)

Event Goals

• Attend FINCON in the US

Life Goals

• Find hobbies and work that fulfils me
• Fund 20 Kiva loans — Learn more about Kiva
• Have a healthy, happy and loving family
• Create a lifestyle that prioritises passive income, travel and freedom
• Pursue a path of lifelong self-directed learning
• Work towards a minimalist mindset when it comes to purchasing material objects
• Buy a property
• Live and work overseas
• Invest in a startup
• Have a large reading library

My Life Guidelines Thus Far

• Don’t play small
• Take a step out of your comfort zone everyday
• Age is never an excuse
• Always ask questions
• You need to be able to stand up for your beliefs
• Being honest is hard but necessary
• Don’t push the people you love away when life gets hard
• Sometimes you have to make the hard decision, and deal with the consequences

If you make an impossible list I’d love to read it!

Best Wishes,

Kate