My Life List
by Matthew - May 8th, 2009.Filed under: Examples, Personal, Planning. Tagged as: Example, Lifestyle Design, Simplify.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn’t do than by the things that you did do.
Wednesday we discussed the importance of making your life list and you made yours. (You did, didn’t you?) Here is my wife and I’s. We have already completed some of our goals, as evidenced by the mark-throughs. A couple of the lists are only for one of us, but the vast majority are combined goals. The items with a * beside them are continuous goals. Some of the items still need further definition, but at least we have something to begin working towards.
- Family
Get married to man/woman of my dreams- * Best husband/wife that I can be
- have children – 2-3 in 9 years
- - decide how want children to end up – this one still has to be defined further
visit host family (again/meet)
- Spiritual
- Read all of Bible
- * Best Christian that I can be
- Education
- * Never stop learning
- learn to sail
- learn to fly airplane
- learn to fly helicopter
- become fluent in language – able to have conversation w/ native speaker
- learn Finnish – able to have conversation w/ native speaker
start college- graduate college
- take an offensive driving course
study abroad
- Financial
- be debt free
- $10,000 emergency fund
- be financially self sufficient – not be dependent upon a specific company or two for our income
- Professional
- have own successful business – something we enjoy running that provides enough income to live comfortably off of
- sell my artwork
- Travel
- visit all 7 continents
- visit New Zealand
- stay in bungalo built over ocean on stilts
- motorcycle trip across the US
- see the Northern Lights
see MoonBow- Bike ride across US
- Visit all 50 states
Travel out of US
- Recreation
- Thru-hike AT
- Thru-hike Sheltowee Trail
- hot air balloon ride
- hang glide
- skydive
- bungee jump
- circumnavigate LBL
go rappelling
- Hobbies
- take photography class
own running/reliable motorcycle- knit sweater
- learn violin/piano
earn black belt
- Community
- live in RV
- Live in SailBoat
- design/build own house
- build log cabin
- Charity
- sponsor a child
- * be generous with time
- * be generous with money
- * be generous with emotions
- Other
- have a custom made suit
There is my life list. Monday I will show you how I made it actionable. If you haven’t created your list yet, go back to Wednesday’s post and do that! Monday we will start working on it.
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