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I thought I'd write down a list of my heart's desires. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I've not done it for some reason, even though doing such things is motivating.

All of these desires are near and dear to me. Some of the items on this list I've wanted since I was a small boy (possessions, mostly), and some of them are newer desires (higher-level desires like love and fulfillment). Many of the list items appeal to my vanity, but they aren't the most important things on the list by far. The traveling is more important to me than owning a Ferrari and a helicopter, for instance. The people I travel with are just as important as the destination, because it wouldn't be the same without them. Things like that.

Some of them won't happen until I'm much older. Some of them are ongoing things and can never really be checked off.

Dreams are goals with time limits attached. I have time limits attached to many of these things, I simply didn't put them into the list. I've struck off the goals I've already accomplished.

1. Fall in love and get married
2. Stay married
3. Have a son
4. Have a daughter
5. See them both become self-actualized, successful people at whatever they choose to do
6. Meet my grandchildren
7. Never stop moving towards self-actualization and always make forward progress in self-improvement
8. Own my own business
9. Start my own financially-successful website
10. Open 12 VA offices in NY
11. Be out of debt by age 26
12. Have a net worth in excess of $1 million by age 30
13. Have a net worth in excess of $50 million by age 39
14. Have a net worth in excess of $1 billion by age 65
15. Be on the cover of a prominent business or news magazine
16. Write a fictional book
17. Go to South Africa with my dad
18. Visit Egypt and the pyramids with Fabien
19. Own a collection of fine watches. (God I love watches!)
20. Get my helicopter pilot's license
21. Own a Robinson R44 helicopter
22. Go to a professional driving school
23. Drive an open-wheel (Indy) car
24. Design my own home and have it built for me.
25. Own a new Ferrari
26. Order and pick up a brand-new Porsche 911 Turbo in Europe
27. Participate in a Porsche event on two seperate continents
28. Buy a Dodge Viper for Rich. Just to say "Thank-you."
29. Visit Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand with my dad
30. Visit Antarctica
31. Visit Iceland
32. Visit Norway
33. Go on an African safari (non-hunting)
34. Get my SCUBA license in Guam and go diving with Nick there
35. Dive the Great Barrier Reef also with Nick
36. Spend two months in Europe back-packing
37. Go to China and see the Great Wall
38. Throw a huge birthday party for myself when I'm old since I've only had one in my life.
39. Get rid of the bittersweet feeling that the holidays brings by having my own family where we stay home and celebrate and people come to us, rather than having to figure out where I'm going on what day. Be the center rather than participate in other people's centers.
40. Own a beautiful home somewhere in New Hampshire
41. Contribute something meaningful to a great charity or organization
42. Take my grandmother to a Red Sox-Yankees game
43. Take my grandmother to a Red Sox World Series Game
44. Go to the summer Olympics in another country
45. Go to MacWorld with David and/or Paul (Nerd alert!)
46. Do something truly extravagant with my close friends, just for the hell of it.
47. Create a full college scholarship to a worthy institution based on need and merit that can only be won by a white male.
48. See a Josh Groban-Charlotte Church duet. Live. In the front row.
49. Start a news-media company
50. Touch the lives of 5 children less fortunate than myself in a meaningful, personal way.
51. Start an angel/venture capital fund for startups
52. Retire and run my own (or someone else's) charity.

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