Mighty Life List
- Read all the childhood classics I was supposed to have read as a kid
- Make my way through the “Great Books”
- Grow vegetables for the family one season
- Fresh herb garden (for one year)
- Write a book
- Spanish – fluently
- Teach a college course
- Take ballet lessons
- Attend TED
- Take a two-week vacation without computers
- Knit/crochet an heirloom blanket
- Wear a large hat at the Kentucky Derby
- Write a million dollar check to a charity
- Manage my investment portfolio like a rock star (or like a really awesome investment adviser and not so much like many rock stars)
- Arrive at my goal weight. (Consider hanging out there for awhile.)
- Get my Ph.D.
- Run a half marathon
- Consider whether I want to run a full marathon. Make a decision. Move forward.
- Learn CPR
- Master my Nikon D50
- Take piano lessons
- Ride an elephant
- Drive more than 100 miles per hour
- Make a quilt
- Learn to ski. Become a ski bunny. (Wear ears?)
- Do 100 sit ups
- Develop old skool film in a dark room
- Buy a plot of land so large I can’t see my neighbors. Build a two room “house” on site. Visit really often.
- Go on a hike with only a compass as a guide
- Be quoted in the New York Times
- Also, the Wall Street Journal (my in-laws will be thrilled)
- Piece of art of my creation hanging on the walls of my house
- Aerosmith concert (better hurry)
- Teach a kid to sew like my grandma taught me
- Make a piece of pottery
- Make a robot. (Turn him into our family mascot and place him in the entryway?)
- Throw a tarts and vicars party
- Learn to draw
- Knit a sweater (that I can wear in public)
- Go to race car driving school at Skip Barber with G
- Ride my bike 50 miles in one day
- Ride bitch seat with a motorcycle gang
Travel
- Safari in Africa
- Scuba dive
- Ride a camel in the desert
- Take a road trip across the U.S. (east/west)
- Open a Swiss bank account in Switzerland
- Set foot on six of the seven continents (no Antarctica)
- Set foot in all fifty states
- Walk along the Great Wall of China
- Go to China
- Live in the hutong for a month
- Stay at an ice hotel
- Ride through the Panama Canal
- Live in another country for a year
- Spend a summer living Alaska
- Fashion Week in Paris
- Eat pasta in Italy
- Drink champagne in France
- Eat sugar in Cuba
- Drink Malbec in Argentina
- Drink saki in Japan
- Visit National Parks & Monuments
- Grand Canyon (AZ)
- Arches National Park (UT)
- Yosemite (CA)
- Yellowstone
- White Sands National Monument (NM)
- Crater Lake National Park (OR)
- Bryce Canyon National Park (UT)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (TN/NC)
- Glacier National Park (MT)
- Mount Rainier National Park (WA)
- Rocky Mountain National Park (CO)
- Acadia National Park (ME)
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HA)
- Death Valley National Park
- Olympic National Park, WA
- Spend the night in Big Bend National Park (TX)
- Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
- Go spelunking
- Machu Picchu
Work
- Use my work to improve lives (pay it forward)
- Form a workplace with people I love
- HUGE sellout (of something – not the main gig)
- Speak at a conference
Socio-Political (Things I’d like to see happen in my lifetime)
- Meaningful peace between Israel & Palestine
- Equal rights for GLBT community in America
- Equality for women throughout the world
- Progress in Africa (end of corruption,
- Cure for AIDS
- Cure for thyroid disease
- Cure for cancer
- Cure for asthma
Life Goals Already Completed Before This List
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Master’s Degree
- Visit Birthplace in Germany by the age of 30
- Buy a house
- Learn how to compose good photos
- Choose a marriage partner wisely
- Work from home
- CEO of my own company
- Try acupuncture. See if it works.
Unexpected Joys (Already completed, but not on any list)
- Visit Alaska
- Luckenbach, Texas
- Sunrise at Yosemite (CA)
