Challenge List
"Life is a marathon, not a sprint".
This list is a combination of short term & long term challenges that will push us to redefine ourselves. We want to keep learning, to never get complacent and to achieve whatever we set our minds to by taking on these challenges.
Together:
Travel
Music
Running
Just Because...
Blog
Forrest:
Skills
-Free dive to 100 feet
-Be able to hold breath for 5 minutes
Personal
Alissa:
Personal
Skills
This list is a combination of short term & long term challenges that will push us to redefine ourselves. We want to keep learning, to never get complacent and to achieve whatever we set our minds to by taking on these challenges.
Together:
Travel
- Visit every continent together
- Play "Travel Roulette" by mixing a list of places/cities together and drawing at random
- Visit every U.S. state
- Swim/dive in every ocean
- Work abroad for over one year
- Inspire someone through this blog to redefine their own real world
- Create a start up business
- Create a self-sustaining non profit organization
- Attend and speak at a Ted Talk
- Leave a $100 tip
Music
- Ultra Music Festival [05/2012]
- Bonnaroo
- SXSW
- Lollapalooza
- Coachella
- Warped Tour [7/2013]
- TomorrowWorld
Running
- Tough Mudder
- Spartan Race
- Zombie Race
- Color Run
- Bay to Breakers
Just Because...
- Oktoberfest (Munich, Germany)
- Be in Ireland for St. Patrick's Day
- Paper Lantern Festival (Pingxi, Taiwan)
- Macy's Day Parade (New York City, NY) [2012,2013]
- Running of the Bulls (Pamplona, Spain)
- Mardi Gras (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- La Tomatina (Valencia, Spain)
- Holi Festival
- Carnival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Snow & Ice Festival- Harbin, China
- Albuquerque International Balloon Festival (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Blog
- Hit 10,000 views
- Hit 25,000 views
- Hit 75,000 views
- Hit 100,000 views
- Make enough money from our blog to continue our travels
- Be featured in a magazine/newspaper/journal
Forrest:
Skills
- Become a certified dive master
- Learn how to free dive properly
-Free dive to 100 feet
-Be able to hold breath for 5 minutes
- Learn to fly a plane
- Become a certified sky diver
- Learn how to bartend
- Learn how to meditate
- Learn how to do advanced photography with a DSLR [05/2014]
- Be fluent in three languages
Personal
- Read 15 books (coming from a guy who hasn't read for pleasure since the 5th grade, this would be remarkable)
- Meet a new person every day for one month (Europe Trip) [05-06/2014]
- Focus 30 days straight to pick up new/break bad habit
Alissa:
Personal
- Become a professional singer
- Make money off of the music I create
- Face and overcome my fears of the ocean (for the record, Forrest wrote this one. Also for the record, not gonna' happen.)
- Sign to a music label [08/2014] (New Vintage Artists)
- Make my first album
- Write a song with Lindsey Sterling (if you don't know her she is really worth looking up)
Skills
- Learn to play the guitar
- Become fluent in three languages
- Master Logic Pro X (recording software)