Impossible List

The impossible list was invented by Joel Runyon. He wanted not a bucket list of individually easy things to do, but a list of things that felt impossible. My list is probably a little long, but I had Fun with it. I have described my quarterly focus here.

Health & Fitness

• Try 25 new recipes in one year
• Go without junk food for a year
• Switch to “mostly” mediterranean diet
• Lose 100lbs
• Maintain weight at 140lbs for 5 years
• Run a 5k
• Walk a marathon
• Run a mud race
• Do a century ride
• Think about posture every day for a year
• Complete Zombies, Run!
• Virtual Walk Appalachian Trail
• Walk take 10k steps a day 260 times in a year
• Switch from soda to tea
• Go uncaffeinated for one year
• Drink 1 gallon of water a day 260 times in one year

Travel / Adventure

• Visit every National Park in the US
• Go to all these parks in one summer
• Camp in every State Park in Minnesota

Environment

• Unpack house
• Paint the inside of the house
• Paint the outside of house
• Remove rocks and make beds beautiful
• Create a pollinator garden
• Keep up cleaning (car and home) maintenance on a monthly basis for 12 months

Education and Reading

• Complete Well Educated Mind reading list
• Complete NPR 100 Best Fantasy and Science Fiction list
• Read a book that takes place in every country
• Read the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Read the Mahabharata
• Read 50 consecutive editions of The Economist
• Learn to speak Spanish fluently
• Watch all Doctor Who seasons
• Watch all Star Trek in order of release
• Listen to all of my owned books
• 75 books in a year for 5 years

Hobbies

• Cross-stitch Groot
• Cross-stitch Loki
• Cross-stitch Creeper
• Cross-stitch unicorn
• Cross-stitch Cthulu
• Cross-stitch Starry Night With Tardis
• Cross-stitch The Scream
• Have a pen pal on all 6 continents
• Make it through this set of D&D Campaigns
• Have a lifetime of scrapbooks

For my Soul

• Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk
• Study a Sacred Text from all major world religions
• Attend service religiously for 1 year

Financial Health

• Pay off Home Equity Loan
• 6-month “emergency fund”
• Debt-free for 1 year