Personal 28 Jul 2008 05:33 am
The refined list of lifetime goals: 2008
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.
- Fall in love and get married
- Stay married
- Have a son
- Have a daughter
- See them both become self-actualized, successful people at whatever they choose to do
- Meet my grandchildren
- Never stop moving towards self-actualization and always make forward progress in self-improvement
- Own my own business
Start my own financially-successful website- Be out of debt by age 29
- Have a net worth in excess of $1 million by age 30
- Have a net worth in excess of $50 million by age 35
- Have a net worth in excess of $1 billion by age 50
- Be on the cover of a prominent business or news magazine
- Write a book
- Go to South Africa
- Visit Egypt and the pyramids with Fabien
- Own a collection of fine watches. (God I love watches!)
- Go to a professional driving school
- Drive an open-wheel (Indy) car
- Design my own home and have it built for me.
- Own a new Ferrari
- Order and pick up a brand-new Porsche 911 Turbo in Europe
- Participate in a Porsche event on two seperate continents
- Buy a Dodge Viper for Rich. Just to say "Thank-you."
- Visit Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand with my dad
- Visit Antarctica
- Visit Iceland
- Visit Norway
- Go on an African safari (non-hunting)
- Get my SCUBA license in Guam and go diving with Nick there
- Dive the Great Barrier Reef also with Nick
- Go to China and see the Great Wall
- Throw a huge birthday party for myself when I'm old since I've only had one in my life.
- 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.
- Own a beautiful home somewhere in New Hampshire
- Contribute something meaningful to a great charity or organization
- Take my grandmother to a Red Sox-Yankees game
- Take my grandmother to a Red Sox World Series Game
- Go to the summer Olympics in another country
- Do something truly extravagant with my close friends, just for the hell of it.
- Create a full college scholarship to a worthy institution based on need and merit that can only be won by a white male.*
- See a Josh Groban-Charlotte Church duet. Live. Somewhere in the first five rows.
- Start a news-media company
- Start an angel/venture capital fund for startups
- Retire and run my own (or someone else's) charity.
- 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.
