Being inspired by Huyen Chip’s Bucket List 100, I decided to spend an entire morning to sit at my newfound favourite coffee shop nearby a river to refresh my mind and soul, reflecting on the past year and looking ahead to my short-term and long-term goals for personal & professional life.

Without further ado, the shamelessly long-awaited list of things I want to do before I die is as follows:
Never in my wildest dreams do I think that someday I will:
- Attend a Bastille’s concert (the band’s signatures are Dan Smith’s accent, his unique voice and vocal style shown in esoteric & arbitrary acoustic covers)
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Oooooooh, travel to New York!
- Attend an Alicia Key’s concert
- Write a song
- Buy a Nord Stage (latest model)
- Get married
- Have either a son (named Nguyễn Thiết Mộc Chân) or a daughter (named Nguyễn Vương Chiêu Quân) or both
- Buy an apartment
- Make an entertaining room in that apartment with brick walls furnished with a bookshelf, a Nord Stage piano & a Signature guitar
- Buy a Martin Ed Sheeran ÷ Signature Edition ✓
- Build an EdTech app that disrupts the way we teach and learn English
- Start my business at 35
- Attend my sister’s wedding
- Run a half marathon and then progress to a full marathon
- Overcome Imposter Syndrome and be an awesome Product Manager ✓
- Build a portfolio project to study, apply theory to practice and eventually devise my own Product Management framework and share with others
- Mentor other junior product managers, product owners ✓
- Teach an English pronunciation course for students in my hometown
- Another tattoo on my wrist designed and tattooed by dominik_thewho
- Meet my secondary school crush, her husband and children to reflect on the good old day when we were young dumb and free
- Conduct an IT Career Guidance and Counseling Program for students in my hometown
- Become a speaker at a Product & Tech conference
- Google my full name and find on the first result page an article that mentions me, my achievements and contributions to society (not scandal or criminal act related lol)
- Produce a video series to raise people’s awareness of Bullying and Corporate Psychopaths at Work and help victims to deal with it effectively
- Finish learning vocabulary in 22000 Academic Words by Harold Levine
- Write a book about English Vocabulary and get published on a publishing house
- Watch a Broadway show in New York
- TBD
I don’t intend to have a specific number of items in my Bucket List. Above are all items popped up in my wandering mind. Now it’s time to chill with Bastille music & get a few minutes of air, sun and mild wind before being trapped inside the rest of the day 😀