What’s a goalist without a goal list? From simple yet satisfying to the BHGs (Big Hairy Goals), see the list we’re working towards below. Feel free to draw some inspiration for your own goal list or view completed goal recaps here.
Ride a hot air balloon
Kite surf
Graduate college
Own a business
Sail a boat
Write a book
Create a new product
Learn to play an instrument
Get a (meaningful) tattoo
Let go of floating lanterns
Design a dream home
Be apart of building it
Technology fast
Go 1 week without using a phone
Go to a drive-in movie theater
Go backpacking
Go geocaching
Learn survival skills and train like a scout
Learn self-defense skills
Try kickboxing
Go dog sledding
See the Northern Lights
Get an internship
Help someone reach a goal
Paint & Sip
Start a garden
Learn to catch my own food
Give a present to a stranger
Make a large effort to improve someone’s quality of life
Feed a giraffe
Try snowboarding
Try surfing as a hobby
Move to the beach
Start dancing again
Go rope swinging
Swim with dolphins
Gain correct posture
Do the Warrior Dash
Do a Zombie Run
See Ellen live
Go to “Price is Right”
Go ziplining
Learn cinematography
Make a cinematography video of a trip
Learn archery
Try a triatholon
Take a karate class
Visit all 50 US states
Start a cause
Put a lock on a love lock bridge with someone I love
Take an acrobatics class
Go orienteering/learn to navigate
Backpack Europe
Study abroad
Make a time capsule to open later
Write a letter of appreciation to someone who inspires me
Learn to finance
Visit the Wonderful Wizarding World of Harry Potter
See a Broadway show in New York
Go zorbing
Play bubble soccer
Learn basic car maintenance
Audition for a dance job
Finish the Harry Potter series
Write an article for a major publication
Make objects from pallets
Upcycle
Earn a black Nationals dance jacket
Go on a safari
Visit Chernobyl
Build a soapbox and race it
Rent a tree-house
Make an important motivational speech
Ride a gondola
Learn a new language
Buy a meal for a stranger
See my favorite band (Two Door Cinema Club) live
Scuba dive
Go on a cruise
Fly a plane
Climb a mountain
See an event in New York City (i.e. tree lighting)
Try parkour
Adopt
Learn to do without modern technology
Try hot yoga
Move to a new state for awhile
Be part of a public dance
Beat a world record
Celebrate a holiday for its true meaning
Jet ski
Take a Zumba class
Cut a ribbon at a grand opening
Help solve a crime
Swim with sharks
Be prepared for disaster situations
Ride in a helicopter
Ride a tandem bicycle
Go to Voo Doo Doughnuts
Dance at Millenium
Visit the Golden Nugget slide
Go mountaineering
Kayak the San Juan Islands
Go spearfishing
Go on a great roadtrip
Win a contest/raffle
Make my own ice cream flavor
Do more horseback riding
Go logrolling
Make a foam pit
Go ballroom dancing
Ride a dune buggy
Learn to control anxiety/stress better
Go white water rafting
Run a blog
Try tap dancing and audition for the Rockettes
Be in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
Learn to sew
Design clothes/accessories and sell them
Go mudding
Go to a circus
Go to Cirque du Soleil
Go legit rock climbing
Make all handmade gifts for a holiday
Face fear and go to a real Haunted House
Go sky diving
Experience 0 gravity
Go hang-gliding/paragliding
Go paddleboarding
Find what makes me most happy and do more of it
See Burning Man
Go to a music festival
Go to a rave
Visit Santa Monica Pier
Be in two places at once
Go spelunking
Be “on top of the world” OR “hold up the world”… or both!
Take a picture of the same place each month and make a calendar
Visit Giraffe Manor in Narobi, Kenya
Go to more museums
Read more books
Try out for Sea Gals
Attend a Huskies game
See a Seahawks game
Do a rope challenge course
Visit Bora Bora, Maldives, Santorini, Geithoorn…. TRAVEL!
Find a hobby that makes me happy – not turned into a job
Give back to my family
Fall in love and start a family
Create a signature dish
Learn to make Chinese, Mexican, Southern food… a variety of dishes
Go to dinner with myself
Learn ancestral homeland recipes (Ireland)
Preserve fruits and vegetables
Meet relatives from Ireland/countries outside of the US
Make a sandwich and name it after myself
Learn to invest
Make gourmet cupcakes
Get a well stocked tool kit
Get paid to write
Recite 10 poems from memory
Host a “Favorite Things” party
Create a studio
Build an in-home theater
Train for and run a marathon
Parasail
Compete in a BBQ cookoff
Solo travel
Make a point of keeping in touch with people from travel
Reconnect/keep in touch with mentors
See the 7 Wonders
Dance en pointe
Learn to hula
Make a business plan
Publish a coffee table book of photography
Take a dive class
Learn basic tool skills
Put together a survival/emergency kit
Learn to build a shelter and a fire
Knit chemo caps for charity
Pay off student loans
Learn couponing
Take a class from Galen Hooks
Take a class from Kyle Hanagami
Train and become a personal trainer/nutritionist
Learn to better understand shame/insecurity/jealousy