2Do Before I Die The Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Rest of Your Life

by Day, Chris; Ogden, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780316109727
• ISBN10: 031610972X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-04
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

One part All About Me, one part What Should I Do with My Life?-a revolutionary interactive guide to jump starting life changes and experiencing this world to the fullest.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introducing the 2DO List	1	(6)
What's on YOUR List?	7	(5)
Roots	12	(18)
Look up an old friend
Own a boat
Meet my child-hood hero
Spend the day with another generation
Find my natural mother
Go skateboarding again
Dig out a childhood treasure
Return to my childhood home
Trace my family roots
Explore	30	(20)
See the sunrise at the South Pole
Backpack around India
Live in Italy for a year
Climb Mount Fuji
Write to a pen pal
Explore the neighborhood
Road-trip across the USA
See a rainbow at night
Meditate in a Himalayan cave
Go for a good, long walk
Kayak through the jungle
Experiment	50	(16)
Shave my head
Streak naked
Grow a beard
Try a new food
Have my own place
Be eccentric
Have a hobby
Build a stereo for my bike
Wear high heels
Do absolutely nothing
Challenge	66	(18)
Take up karate
Parachute from a plane
Free-dive to the bottom of the ocean
Get fit
Run with the bulls
Climb a tree
Break a habit
Travel at the speed of sound
Walk on fire
Give	84	(18)
Save a life
Repay my debt to society
Leave money for strangers
Help someone in need
Sponsor a town
Support the underdog
Help save an endangered animal
Work with the homeless
Join a protest march
Mentor a child
Learn	102	(18)
Perfect a magic trick
Sing opera
Learn to fly a plane
Learn to dance
Keep bees
Learn Italian
Graduate from college
Cook a meal you've never made before
Find a faith
Play the drums
Learn to swim
Pass on a skill
Express	120	(22)
Paint on a large canvas
Perform stand-up comedy
Get a tattoo
Draw a self-portrait
Stage a play
Sing in a band
Give a speech
Open an under-ground arts club
Make your own clothes
Get published
Record an album
Love	142	(14)
Propose
Ask out a total stranger
Fall in love
Share a fantasy
Honeymoon in the Galapagos Islands
Come out of the closet
Throw a surprise party for a friend
Start a family
Give birth
Get married
Work	156	(18)
Work from home
Change my career
Be a school-teacher
Take a new route to work
Run a bed and breakfast
Start a second career in my spare time
Open a restaurant
Quit my job
Legacy	174	(17)
Bury treasure
Continue a family tradition
Watch my son grow up
Pass on an heirloom
Plant a tree
Follow in my mom's footsteps
Make a family cook-book
Speak from the grave
Build something that lasts
Start all over again
Do or Die	191	(8)
The 2DO List	199	(8)
Our Thanks	207