Everyone needs a list

The Buried Life, making your dreams real and writing down your list
Mar 29, 2025
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Everyone needs a list:

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Everyone needs a list.

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A life list.

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A list of the things you want to accomplish in your life.

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What did you want to do as a kid?

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What dreams did you have?

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What dreams do you have now?

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Ask yourself these questions and more.

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Then write it down.

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Write down what you want.

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For me, it started with the Buried Life.

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A show on MTV in the late 2000s about 4 guys from Canada who wrote a list and asked a question.

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Check out the trailer here

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The central question they asked was ‘What do you wanna do before you die?’

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Then they went out and did all of those things on the list.

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Every time they did one of their bucket list items, they helped someone else accomplish theirs.

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Those guys inspired my next inspirations.

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Yes Theory.

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4 guys who met at McGill University and said ‘What if we do something different with our lives?’

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Challenge ourselves?

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Go down a completely unstructured path.

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Then they did it.

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Started following them when they were at 10k subscribers.

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Now they’re almost at 10M.

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It’s evolved over many years but they did it.

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They’ve inspired so many along the way.

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By asking themselves the same question.

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What do you wanna do before you die?

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Write it down.

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Write down your dreams.

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Make them real.

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Put them out there.

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Why not?

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What’s your downside?

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Nothing.

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Upside?

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Infinite.

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This is what so many people have figured out.

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Started with Think and Grow Rich.


Then Cybercybernetics.

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Then As a Man Thinketh.

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Then the Strangest Secret.

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Faith.

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Belief.

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Writing down your dreams.

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Telling yourself them.

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Convincing your subconscious they’re real.

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Repeating it again and again.

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Doing that for years.

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Then watching your mind see it happen.

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Watching your dreams slowly come true.

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It’s so rewarding.

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It gives you purpose.

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Something to strive for.

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Something to get yourself out of your normal rut.

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Make them weird.

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Make them wild.

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Make them yours.

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Write down your list.

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We all need one.

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'Keep Going You're Doing Great'

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