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 here, not necessarily big challenges, but goals I want to complete nonetheless.

Last Updated: 26th January 2022

Health and Fitness Goals

  • Abstain from eating anything with added sugar for an entire month 

  • Abstain from eating bread for an entire month - 2021

  • Run in a ParkRun event

  • Run 3km - 2021

    • Run 10km - 2021

    • Run 20km

  • Complete a half marathon

    • Complete a full marathon

  • Complete 10 push-ups in a row

  • Complete an unassisted pull-up

  • Be flexible enough to do the splits

  • Attend a martial arts class - 2020

    • Gain my first belt - 2020

  • Attend a beginners dance class - 2019

Professional Goals

  • Complete my university degree - 2019

    • Complete my Juris Doctor

  • Create a public slide deck 

  • Get published in a major online publication

  • Get published in a major physical publication - 2020

  • Give a live talk/presentation - 2019 

  • Host a live event - 2020

    • Host a live Meet-Up

  • Start a business

  • Build my personal and business network 

  • Gain a solid understanding of basic financial principles - 2019

  • Work in the UK 

Online Goals

  • Get 1000 website visitors in a month - 2019

    • Get 10,000 website visitors in a month

  • Setup and distribute my monthly newsletter - 2019

  • Self-publish an eBook

  • Speak on a podcast episode as a guest - 2020

  • Create a video for my online portfolio

  • Create and publish an online course

  • Gain my first $1k of side income - 2019

    • $5k of side income - 2020

    • $10k of side income - 2021

  • Create an iPad/iPhone App

Creative Goals

  • Cook 10 different dishes - 2020

    • Cook 50 different dishes

  • Create a piece of artwork for my wall

  • Learn basic calligraphy skills

  • Learn basic conversational Spanish

  • Write a song

    • Get the song produced

  • Learn to play a full song on the ukulele - 2019

  • Write my Investing For Normal People framework

  • Write my Future of Payments Framework

  • Finish my Fiction WIP

  • Become a great question asker

    • Attend an improv workshop

    • Attend a stand up comedy workshop

    • Attend an acting workshop

    • Attend a NIDA course

Travel Goals

  • Go backpacking by myself (minimum of two weeks)

  • Visit Hobbiton in New Zealand - 2019

  • 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

  • Take a group tour - 2022

  • Visit NASA

  • Visit Lietchersen

Event Goals

  • Attend FINCON in the US

  • Attend a medieval festival

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 - 2019

  • Have a large reading library 

  • Buy a piece of land and grow a forest

  • Donate 1,000 personal finance books to Australians

My Life Guidelines Thus Far

  • If it’s meant to be, go out and make it happen 

  • Don’t play small

  • Take a step out of your comfort zone every day

  • 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