The Impossible List is a list of goals when people read would advise you to stop flying in the air and stay ground. It is not a bucket list but an evolving list of things you want to achieve as you strike off the old ones. The list gets bigger & bigger with time. It is focused on how I want to live my life & documents the journey as and when an action has been taken.
I discovered the concept from Thomas Frank’s video, which was inspired by Joel Runyon who is the author of it. You can read more about it here: The Impossible List is NOT a Bucket List.
🎯 Current Focus:
- Read 2 books in a month
- Write 1 blog post/article on this blog
- Start cycling
✅ Last 5 Completed Goals:
Read “Zero To One”(Jan 15, 2021)Walk 10k steps for 15 days straight(Jan 15, 2021)Read “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck”(Jan 8, 2021)Log food in Healthify for 7 days straight(Jan 7, 2020)Read 2 books in a month(Dec 2020)
🧬 Life Goals:
- Maintain a loving, inspiring, and happy relationship
- Gain Financial Independence and retire Mr. Money Mustache-style by 40 (save $1 million dollars and have the option to live off interest and investments)
- Support 100 children’s education in my lifetime
- Support 1 child’s education in 2022
- Meet and have Dinner with Ratan Tata
- Own a house with a backyard garden, swimming pool, & barbecue.
💪🏼 Habit Goals:
- Write affirmation
Drink 2 litres of water/day for 7 days straight(Jan 7, 2020)Log food in Healthify for 7 days straight(Jan 7, 2020)Do the bed immediately after waking up for 7 days straight(Jan 7, 2020)Log expenses in Spendee every day(Jan 7, 2020)No Screen for 30 mins after waking up for 7 days straight(Jan 7, 2020)
🧘🏻♂️ Health / Fitness / Sports Goals:
- Reduce 5 kilos in 3 months
Walk 10k steps for 7 days straight(Jan 7, 2020)Walk 10k steps for 15 days straight(Jan 15, 2020)- Walk 6kms in an hour
- Walk 1L steps in a week
- Learn to do 1 proper push-up
- Learn to do 1 classic pull-up
- Re-join Karate Dojo
- Participate in a 5k run
- Start Playing Golf
- Play Golf twice a month for 3 months
- Get a Golf Handicap at KGA
👨🏻💻 Professional Goals:
- Talk at a conference
- Mentor someone professionally
- Grow Twitter followers to 5,000
- Write 5 articles on this blog (any topic)
- Build something cool
- Live Streaming concept
- Home automation
- Alexa Skill
- AR Filter
- Read the Book/Papers/Articles
🎨 Creative Goals:
- Write a sci-fi/fantasy story (at least 10,000 words)
🤹🏻♂️ Skill Goals:
- Learn to make the perfect Anna Saaru (daal-rice)
- Pencil Sketching
- Learn to fly a kite
👻 Fun and/or Insane Goals:
- Jump off a Plane (skydive)
- Kiss my wife in Hot Air Balloon
- Go Scuba Diving
- Get a PADI Certification
- Bungee Jumping (at least once in a lifetime)
- Sing a solo Karaoke
- Harvest honey from the honeycomb
🎫 Events / Festivals Goals:
- Attend Formula-1 Race
- Attend a Trade Fair in China
- Attend Wimbledon Match (preferably of Roger Fedder)
- Attend SXSW
- Attend CES
- Attend Mobile World Congress
✈️ Travel Goals:
- Visit all states & union territories in India (19 states & 5 union territories done)
- Road Trip across India
- Go on a Solo Trip for min 2 days
- Attend Khub Mela
- Attend Tomorrowland Music Festival
- (…to be updated)
📚 Reading Goals:
- Reading 1000 books in a lifetime
Read 2 books in a month(Dec 2020)- Read 4 books in a month
- Check out my complete reading list here.
🫀 Relationships / Connection Goals:
- Plan 1 dressed up date-night/month
- Have at least 4 sit-down dinners at the table with family every month
- Reconnect with 1 old friend over call
- Make a list of people I want to meet in my life and why
- Meet the following Famous People:
- Ratan Tata
- Bill Gates
- Meet a Nobel Prize winner
- Michael Jordon
- Usain Bolt
- Christiano Ronaldo
- The Rock
- Eminem
- Leonardo Di Caprio
- Muhammed Ali
If you find this list inspiring, I would challenge you to create your own impossible list. I happen to choose to share it publicly & It does not need to be public.
If you have any suggestions/questions or just want to say hello please feel free to tweet @harshamv.
The page was last updated on Dec 30th, 2021.
