Living Life by Ticks

When you are in a city with minimal people you know and that too not interested in the activities that you might be interested in, you tend to kill a majority of time in senseless quality thinking. You start thinking about your philosophy of life, and suddenly you realize that there is no such philosophy. You try to fix your behavioral patterns of the past on a big drawing board and try to relate it to any of the banal philosophies of life, which you have heard of (living life each day, planning for everything etc etc used frequently in movies). Once such day passes, you also become inquisitive about other's philosophies of life. The objective of search is three fold, first to confirm whether it was only you who had lived so long without any philosophy , second, is their any other philosophy which could actually be your philosophy (remember you figured out "your" philosophy by best fit method recently) as well it is just that I didn't knew it and the third objective could be more of a testing of your so called philosophy with the others and judge whose was better and in case other's was better, can it be adopted?
I was recently in a similar phase and hence was actively looking out for the "philosophies of life". Of all the philosophies which were quoted, most were highly subjective and you could hardly relate to any of those, particularly when you hardly understand what the catch phrase actually means or what will it mean in your life's setting. However the philosopny which appeared most interesting and I found it to be most easily adoptable and was in some loose sense lifted from one of the Hindi flicks, was "living life by tick". Concept is simple, make a list consisting of all the things that could be done (or Should be done, your choice) and start completing them (and ticking your virtual list) . With every tick you would know what type of tasks do you enjoy doing or hate doing and hence could elaborate your list within a category or eliminate some sections from your list accordingly. For example if "learning musical instrument" is something that would be on your list, once u learn one instrument, then probably your list will expand with listing of all the instruments within in, in case you liked the first instrument. In this way one would be able to explore a wide variety of things that are on offering and maybe could lead you to the task where your interests lies. Another good aspect of this philosophy is that it enriches your experiences in life and hence you could reach the famed position of "been there done all". However it is not advisable to count ticks on others' lists when you are adopting this philosophy as many would have ticked so much within a subsection, which appears very alluring to you, that you would either give up or would fully focus on that section, without realising how much hard work was required in each tick. Both of which are the stances that you don't want to start with in your philosophy of life. Another aspect of it is, in case you do not encounter your "natural interest" area early in the list, you might end up doing a lot of things without actually completing subsections within a section, something which would prevent you from becoming "specialised" in one area, something which might forced achievable if you are not living by this philosophy.
"Living life by tick" an operational form of philosophy which has a catch phrase of "one can't afford to miss anything". Although this philosophy would appear to be least philosophical but still is most straightforward and easily followable. So in case you do not have any philosophy of your own and want to adopt some philosophy to govern your life then it could be the one. If you are not adopting it then at least you have one extra option to choose while answering "what is your philosophy of life", and awkward question which if not someone else then your conscience would surely ask some day sooner or late.

P.S. This question regarding philosophy of life raises only when certain neurons of brain cross-connect, an event which has very high probability if you have had high intake of certain processed chemicals like alcohol or certain natural products like marijuana