Rian J Stockbower

Back in January of 2007, I wrote a list of 52 things that I want to do before I die. To this day, it stands out as one of the most vividly-remembered things I've ever written. Turns out that writing a list of your life goals is actually pretty useful. It's sort of like writing a business plan for your life, and you might discover some things about yourself that you didn't know along the way.

[ All lists ]

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. Be out of debt by age 29
11. Have a net worth in excess of $1 million by age 30
12. Have a net worth in excess of $50 million by age 35
13. Have a net worth in excess of $1 billion by age 50
14. Be on the cover of a prominent business or news magazine
15. Write a book
16. Go to South Africa
17. Visit Egypt and the pyramids with Fabien
18. Own a collection of fine watches. (God I love watches!)
19. Go to a professional driving school
20. Drive an open-wheel (Indy) car
21. Design my own home and have it built for me.
22. Own a new Ferrari
23. Order and pick up a brand-new Porsche 911 Turbo in Europe
24. Participate in a Porsche event on two seperate continents
25. Buy a Dodge Viper for Rich. Just to say "Thank-you."
26. Visit Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand with my dad
27. Visit Antarctica
28. Visit Iceland
29. Visit Norway
30. Go on an African safari (non-hunting)
31. Get my SCUBA license in Guam and go diving with Nick there
32. Dive the Great Barrier Reef also with Nick
33. Go to China and see the Great Wall
34. Throw a huge birthday party for myself when I'm old since I've only had one in my life.
35. 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.
36. Own a beautiful home somewhere in New Hampshire
37. Contribute something meaningful to a great charity or organization
38. Take my grandmother to a Red Sox-Yankees game
39. Take my grandmother to a Red Sox World Series Game
40. Go to the summer Olympics in another country
41. Do something truly extravagant with my close friends, just for the hell of it.
42. Create a full college scholarship to a worthy institution based on need and merit that can only be won by a white male.*
43. See a Josh Groban-Charlotte Church duet. Live. Somewhere in the first five rows.
44. Start a news-media company
45. Start an angel/venture capital fund for startups
46. Retire and run my own (or someone else's) charity.
47. Have a library in my home.

* There are many scholarships for women and minorities. At this point in time, however, boys are the minority in college. Society may have forgotten about them, but I have not.