A “life resume” is a personal document that captures the significant experiences, achievements, and key moments of a person’s entire life.
Professional accomplishments, personal growth, relationships, hobbies, and other impactful life events. A life resume essentially provides a holistic view of one’s life story.
A life resume is a way to think about and document the full journey of a person’s life. Not just their career trajectory.
Key points about a life resume:
- Focus on personal impact. Unlike a traditional resume, a life resume emphasizes the personal meaning and significance of experiences. Not just professional titles and responsibilities.
- Beyond work. It includes detail about family, community involvement, hobbies, travel, personal projects, and significant life events that shaped the individual.
- Self-reflection tool. Creating a life resume can be a powerful exercise for self-reflection. It helps people assess their life journey, find areas of growth, and set future goals.
- Not for job applications. This document is not typically used for job applications but is a personal tool for self-understanding. It also shares a more complete picture of a person to inspire others.
Below is my Life Resume organized by Life Categories:
Last 5 Completed Goals
Yearly Misogi
Health
Physical Fitness
Mental Fitness
Personal Finance
Real Estate
Professional
Personal
Creative
Adventure & Travel
Last 5 Completed Goals
✓ Kevin’s Rule (on-going)
✓ Finish water color painting (May 2026)
✓ Duplex Househack (May 2026)
✓ 48 hour fast (herb broth, water, electrolytes only) (March 2026)
✓ Open HSA account (January 2026)
Yearly Misogi
“A Misogi (mis·ō·gē) is one year-defining event that will be the pinnacle of your year. When you look back, you’ll remember 2025 as the year you made it happen. It could be a physical challenge, a trip, a business goal, or a life bucket item. Make sure it’s within the realm of possibility, but go BIG.” – Jesse Itzler
✓ 2021: Bike outdoors 100 days in a row
✓ 2022: Run 13.1 miles
✓ 2023: Run 26.2 miles + 50 miles 12 hours
✓ 2024: Build 6 calisthenics basic skills (6/6):
- 5 chin-ups (October 2024)
- 10 push-ups (June 2024)
- 10 pistol squats (June 2024)
- 10 straight bar dips (October 2024)
- 10 hanging leg raises (July 2024)
- 15 second handstand (August 2024)
✓ 2025: Invest 20k into Vanguard
2026: Max out Roth & HSA
Health
Diet
✓ Cut out meat and dairy from diet (Summer 2017)
✓ Learn how to cook plant-based meals (September 2017)
✓ Create an original recipe (September 2017)
✓ Eat only fruit for a week (February 2019)
✓ 48 hour fast (herb broth, water, electrolytes only) (March 2026)
Retreats
✓ 3 Day Silent Retreat (May 2020)
Skills (7/10)
✓ Accessing Information (2018)
✓ Practicing Healthful Behaviors (2019)
✓ Decision Making (2020)
✓ Goal Setting (2021)
✓ Stress Management (2022)
✓ Analyzing Influences (2023)
✓ Refusal Skills (2024)
✓ Communication Skills (2025)
Conflict Resolution
Advocacy
Physical Fitness
Pull-ups
✓ 5 strict pull-ups in a row (July 2018)
Comeback from tendinitis:
✓ 5 chin-ups (October 2024)
10 chin-ups
5 strict pull-ups
10 strict pull-ups in a row
1 strict muscle up
Push-ups
✓ 20 push-ups (May 2018)
Comeback from tendinitis:
✓ 10 push-ups (June 2024)
30 clean push-ups
Do 10 push-ups everyday for a year
Squats
✓ 10 pistol squats (June 2024)
✓ Squat my body weight: 130 lbs (December 2024)
Dips
✓ 10 strict dips on dip-bars (June 2018)
Comeback from tendinitis:
✓ 10 straight bar dips (October 2024)
20 strict dips on dip-bars / straight bar
Core
✓ 5 hanging leg raises (May 2024)
✓ 10 hanging leg raises (July 2024)
✓ 15 hanging leg raises + 5 knee tucks (November 2024)
20 hanging leg raises
Headstands / Handstands
✓ Headstand press (April 2020)
Handstand press
✓ 10 second handstand (February 2019)
✓ 15 second handstand (August 2024)
30 second handstand
1 minute handstand
Biking
✓ Bike outside 7 days in a row (April 2021)
✓ Learn how to ride a bike without using handlebars (May 2021)
✓ Bike outside 100 days in a row (July 2021)
Flexibility / Mobility
Split (both sides)
Straddle
Pancake
Mental Fitness
Distance Running
✓ 13.1 miles (March 2022)
✓ 26.2 miles (September 2023)
✓ 50 miles (October 2023)
Run / Walk
✓ 5K (June 2019)
✓ 5k Friday for 6 month (September 2023)
✓ 5K 31 days in a row (May 2023)
✓ 5k a day for 100 days (August 2023)
✓ 5k a day for 150 days (September 2023)
5k a week for 52 weeks (in-progress)
✓ 1 mile a day for 7 days (November 2021)
✓ 1 mile a day for 365 days (February 2023)
✓ 1 mile a day for 500 days (June 2023)
✓ 1 mile a day for 1,000 days (November 2024)
✓ Run 500 miles in 1 year (2022)
✓ Run 1,000 miles in 1 year (September 2023)
✓ Complete 75 Hard (December 2019)
Alcohol Detox
✓ Go 75 days without alcohol (December 2019)
✓ Go 100 days without alcohol (April 2021)
✓ Go 365 days without alcohol (January 1 2021-January 1, 2022)
Go 2 years without alcohol (in-progress)
Weed Detox
✓ Go 80 days without smoking weed (July-September 2020)
Personal Finance
Active Income
✓ Generate $80,000 combined (2023)
Generate $100,000 combined
Credit Cards / Credit Score
✓ Pay off all credit card debt (August 2019)
✓ 800 credit score (January 2020)
✓ Maintain 800+ credit score (on-going)
Cash Reserve
✓ Save up $20k cash reserve, add to premium yield account (January 2024)
$40,000 cash reserve
Roth IRA
Max out Roth IRA every year for the next 10 years (6/10) (2020-2030)
✓ 2020 $6,000
✓ 2021 $6,000
✓ 2022 $6,500
✓ 2023 $6,500
✓ 2024 $7,000
✓ 2025 $7,000
Brokerage Accounts
✓ Open joint brokerage account (2024)
✓ Invest $3,000 in 2024
✓ Invest $6,000 in 2025
✓ Save $10,000 for rental down payment (December 2025)
✓ Open HSA account (January 2026)
Travel Fund
✓ $10k travel fund (May 2024)
Real Estate
✓ Purchase, fix, and resell single family property (February 2019)
✓ Become an Airbnb Superhost (January 2022)
✓ Purchase, fix, and rent single family property (July 2022)
✓ Duplex Househack (May 2026)
Professional
Real Estate
✓ Complete Fortune Builders curriculum (December 2016)
✓ PA Real Estate License (June 2017)
Hospitality
✓ 10 years experience as a Server (2024)
✓ 4 years experience as a fine-dining Sever (October 2021-Present)
Management
✓ Essential Management Skills for the Workplace *Certification* (2024)
✓ Build marketing skills using personal website (on-going)
Personal
Romance
✓ Maintain a loving, passionate, and happy relationship (10 years and counting!)
Blog
✓ Create personal website (you’re looking at it!) (July 2020)
✓ Post 1 blog / week for one year (52) on personal website (July 2021)
✓ Post 100 blogs (September 2022)
Post 365 blogs – currently at 321 as of 5/3/26! not rushing this, only quality blogs
Books
Read 1,000 self-improvement books (45/1,000) doesn’t include rereads
Creative
✓ Sew something I can wear (April 2014)
✓ Take a painting class (January 2015)
✓ Start a blog (August 2020) – you’re looking at it!
✓ Design a website (October 2020)
✓ Make a homemade gift (December 2020)
✓ 100 Designs on Canva (2022)
✓ 200 Designs on Canva (2024)
✓ Learn guitar (2024)
✓ Create online Healthy Handbook (2025)
✓ Finish water color painting (May 2026)
Build wildflower garden
Author a plant-based cookbook
Finish demo
Write a song
Blow glass
Work on a pottery wheel
Create a piece of art and sell it
Create my own personal stationary
Knit a scarf
Create a calendar with my own photos
Make a candle
Make a font out of my handwriting
Make a tie dye shirt
Make an origami animal
Refinish a piece of furniture
Adventure & Travel
✓ Ride a zip line (April 2016)
✓ Wrap a snake around my neck (July 2016)
✓ Feed a giraffe (September 2016)
✓ Swim with stingrays (September 2019)
✓ Road trip across America (April-September 2020)
✓ Hug a redwood (July 2020)
✓ Catch a wave surfing (September 2020)
✓ Swim with a wild school of fish (September 2020)
✓ Learn how to snowboard (January 2021)
Ultra Crewing (8/8 completes)
✓ 100 mile race: Hainesport 100 (January 2022)
✓ 200 mile race: Buckeye 200 (October 2022)
✓ 100k race: Ironstone 100k (July 2023)
✓ 76 mile fat ass run: Philly Four Corners (May 2023)
✓ 100 mile trail race: Eastern States 100 (August 2023)
✓ 100 mile fat ass road race: Wildwood 100 (November 2023)
✓ 200 mile race: Swammie Shuffle (February 2024)
✓ 100 mile race: C&O Canal (May 2024)
Mini Retirement
✓ 6 month Cross Country road trip (Philly to Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Cali) (2020)
✓ 2 month Southeast road trip (2024)
✓ Take a rain bath (September 2024)
Visit all 50 states ( /50)
Visit all National Forests in the USA ( /154)
Visit all National Parks in the USA ( /63)
Camp in 25 states (in-progress) ( /25)
Watch the sunrise and sunset in one day (November 2023)
Visit Puerto Rico, experience culture, explore family history
Trip to Hawaii
Thailand retreat
Live island life 1 year
Swim with dolphins
Backpack through Europe, experience culture, explore family history
Live on a boat for 3 months
Live with monks for 30 days
Explore a cave
Snorkel in the ocean
Relax in a natural spring
See a coral reef
Sleep in a yurt
Swim with wild sea turtles
Swim with manatees
Walk on a black sand beach
Go whale watching
If this inspires you, I encourage you to make your own! You can start by making an Impossible List. Get started here!