- Be a better neighbor
- Learn how to use our gas grill
- Prove I can have success growing wild rice, taro, cassava, or some other exotic food crop in Louisiana’s unique environment
- Lose 52 pounds in the next 52 weeks (fat chance)
- Retire in four years at age 65
- Avoid having to be a Walmart greeter for the rest of my life
- Live in an interdependent self-sustainable community after I retire
- Live close to hiking trails, caves, streams & lakes that I can enjoy after I retire
- Become fluent in Spanish
- Visit a liberated Cuba
- Ride an elephant in the Royal Chitwan National Park in Nepal
- Visit Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal and see Mt. Everest with my own eyes
- Run in a 10-K
- Raft the Colorado River
- Tell you where I was when the first human stepped foot on Mars
- Be the first human to step foot on Mars…just kidding
- Patent a turfgrass variety
- Write a fiction novel
- Learn SAS inside and out and become as good at statistics as I was when I completed graduate school at the Univ. of Minnesota
- Financially assist an underprivileged youth in reaching his/her full potential
- Join a regionally competitive barbershop choir
- Sing in a popular barbershop quartet
- Read more and watch TV less
- Learn how to meditate
- Climb to the top of King’s Peak (the highest point in Utah)…finally
- Visit the Holy Land and climb Mt. Sinai
- Receive a vision
- Serve on an LDS mission with Judy for 18 months
- Live close enough to our grandchildren that we could visit them much more frequently than is presently possible
- Take up golfing again after I retire
- Take up cross-country skiing as an excuse to visit family in the winter
- Become a skilled amateur woodworker
- Become a skilled archer
- Complete a fully updated William Thomas Tew Heritage Book by 2010 for the benefit of his posterity
- Own a home outright before I die
- Score 178 or better in bowling
- Go to Disney World at least once in my life
- Visit every state in the nation that I haven’t already been in (NH, VT, and SC)
- Keep in contact with old friends
- Be a more loving and giving companion to Judy
- Learn how to give more and expect less
- Be more optimistic about the future
- Have my portrait painted
- Determine with certainty the ancestry of Louis Roy (my great-great grandfather on my mother’s (LeRoy) side) all the way back to France
- Become a better blogger
- Learn to take quality pictures and videos to enhance my blog site
- Write the story of my life in a way that it actually benefits posterity
- Leave a respectable inheritance for my family when I leave this life
- Become more assertive and stand up for myself when wronged
- Find my “voice” (Covey’s 8th Habit) and inspire others to find theirs
Monday, January 5, 2009
50 things I would like to do
Here's the "other" list, even if only half as big as I promised.
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5 comments:
What a great list! It's cool to learn about your aspirations. It's also inspiring to create some goals of my own...
I share some of your goals and if you like I can help you out with meditation.
Oh and I might do one of these lists too. I already copied your "100 things I've done list." Hope you don't mind...
Thanks for the support guys!
that is a great list. Thank you for sharing, it's very inspiring to me. I think you can cross off #20, you and mOm helped me so much those first few years when I came here and have continued to help me.. Lessons I learned from you continue to help me. I can never thank you enough.
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