Updated 14-Sep-2023
This checklist is inspired by Ted Leonsis' List of 101 things to accomplish. His list is thought-provoking, and I share many of the goals. Here is my list (incomplete). - I will backfill in items that I have already completed, and of course add more.
Family Matters (6)
- Fall in love and get married (done)
- Build a happy and contented marriage
- Successfully raise happy, healthy children
- Take care of extended family
- Have grandchildren
- Leave all financial matters in great shape for family
Financial Matters (9)
- Pay off college debts
- Net worth of $1 million
- Net worth of $10 million
- Net worth of $100 million
- Net worth of $1 billion
- Zero personal debt for family
- Create company that creates living wage surplus (done)
- Start a company and sell it
- Conduct an IPO on a company I founded
Creative Matters (19)
- Build a home
- Learn to fly an airplane
- Build an airplane
- Build a car
- Produce a film
- Stage a theater production
- Stage a dance production
- Produce an album
- Paint and have a show in an art gallery
- Photography and have a show in an art gallery
- Create a game
- Write a book of poetry
- Write a book of fiction
- Write nonfiction books
- File a patent (non-trivial)
- Distill whisky
- Brew beer
- Grow and make chocolate
- Grow and make coffee
- Milk cow and make dairy products
- Create a successful open source project
Learning
- Speak English
- Speak German
- Speak Thai
- Speak Vietnamese
- Develop a single keyboard system to interoperate with these languages
Travel (26)
- Skydive
- Hot Air Balloon
- Visit Cambodia
- Visit England
- Visit Scotland
- Visit Ireland
- Visit Iceland
- Visit France
- Visit Italy
- Visit Greece
- Visit Spain, run with the bulls
- Visit Portugal
- Visit Japan
- Visit Nepal, including Mustang
- Visit Myanmar
- Visit Laos (done)
- Visit Cuba
- Visit Bali (done)
- Visit Vietnam (done)
- Visit Hong Kong
- Visit Singapore
- Visit Indonesia, several places including Prambanan, Borobudur, Sewu
- Visit Russia, trans-siberian express
- Visit the Caucuses: Gagra, Abkhazia, and Crimea
- Visit the Balkans: Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia
- Visit Moldova and Romania - Carpathians
- See the summer Olympics (Tokyo, 2020)
- Go on an extended sailing cruise
- Visit outer space (minimum low earth orbit)
Physical Health (7)
- Run a marathon every year (starting 2018)
- Run an olympic distance triathlon
- Work out 1 hour per day every day, 2 hours better
- Create a new yoga form
- Run an ultra-marathon (60km or further)
- Sharpshooter qualification
- Maintain excellent health and fitness until final days
Impact on the World (2)
- Provide tangible benefit to fellow humans
- Provide tangible benefit to biosphere