I found a brief essay in the NY Times: "The Moral Bucket List."

It is something to really strive for.

excerpt:

"I came to the conclusion that wonderful people are made, not born — that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

If we wanted to be gimmicky, we could say these accomplishments amounted to a moral bucket list, the experiences one should have on the way toward the richest possible inner life."

It lists many inner values to strive for (link below)

The Moral Bucket List