Life List – Live a Life of Your Design!

This is much like a bucket list but I prefer the term “life list” because I’m focused on living a fulfilled life. A life of my dreams and of my design. This is my current list of one-day/some-day items I really want to do. This is a living document that will change over time. I’ll cross items off as I accomplish them. Some things will drop off and others will be added as I change as a person.

The point is to find inspiration in Big!  Hairy!  Audacious!  Goals!

I encourage you to start one of your own. If you do start a life list, tell me about it and I’ll link to it. Have fun with it and don’t take it too seriously. This isn’t a strict to-do list. A life list is about discovering your passion and your purpose.

Pick 1 to 3 things each year and make your intention to complete each of them. Never Quit Your Dreams!

1. Quit my day job – CHECK (it technically quit me, but I was happy about it)
2. Travel to Costa Rica for 2 weeks with family – Check, Spectacular experience during Spring Break 2018.
3. Become a black belt in Brazilian jujitsu
4. Take flying lessons – get a pilot license
5. Live in a Scandinavian country for a month
6. Never, ever have a traditional 9-5 job again – Take that corporate America 😉
7. Be involved in an investment deal in all 50 states
8. Launch a podcast – CHECK, launched in January 2018
9. Start a coaching company and empower others to create their freedom – Launched Summer 2018
10. Inspire 10 people to create and publish their life list (several submissions… a few more to go)
11. Start a title company
12. rent/lease an RV and drive across the US during the summer when my kids are on summer vacation
13. Learn to speak Spanish (at least basic conversational level)
14. Own 40 residential rentals free and clear
15. Host classes on personal development – Underway with local meetup group Self Directed Investors
16. Become an accomplished public speaker – Underway… much work to do here…
17. Be on a podcast every month and talk Real estate investment and personal development – Underway … Podcast Appearances
18. Visit 80 countries before I die – 5 down, 75 to go (US, Mexico, France, UK, Costa Rica and way more to go)
19. Learn to become a strong swimmer where I’m comfortable and confident in the water (doggie paddle doesn’t count)
20. Learn to scuba dive
21. Help fund a charity
22. Host events to educate, empower and enrich other investors to realize their dreams (serious thoughts happening for 2019)
23. Have a vacation rental in 10 of my favorite cities – Madison, WI has been added as a potential after visiting July 2018
24. Snowbird and rent an Airbnb in Madison, WI during the summer – in consideration for Summer 2019
25. Be able to pay all cash for college for both of my children
26. Have a lake house as a secondary residence (Greers Ferry or Lake Ouachita)
27. Have a Christmas house on a lake in the Ozarks to ponder the next year between Christmas and new year
28. Own an airplane
29. Make a documentary about how to think differently, challenge conventions, inspire people to think for themselves
30. Get rid of 90% or more of my personal possessions (i.e. live a minimalist life)
31. Visit the great wall of China
32. Have good friends on 6 continents and visit each of them (sorry Antartica, penguins aren’t worth it)
33. Start a local microbrewery
34. Start a winery
35. Learn chi-gong
36. Become a yogi
37. Meditate daily for 1 year
38. Develop the habit to exercise 6 days a week for the rest of my life
39. Learn German (at least conversationally)
40. Attend personal development classes every other month (6 a year) – Ongoing since 2015
41. Attend a Tony Robbins Event – Done, did the firewalk, got the t-shirt 😉 UPW Chicago in July 2018.
42. Have my kids achieve financial freedom on their own before 25
43. Meet great thinkers of our time
44. Attain and maintain fitness level of a 20-year-old
45. Sustain a healthy whole food plant-based diet
46. Have a learning institute to develop entrepreneurs and investors
47. Create an institute for young children to grow and contribute to the community
48. Play chess or game of skill every day
49. Hire a professional nutrition coach
50. Hire a professional chef to prepare delicious and  nutritious plant-based meals
51. Host parties to develop community and nourish their bodies with whole food plant-based cuisine
52. Have a personal trainer to push my physical development
53. Go to space and see Earth from space
54. Speak at a TEDx talk
55. Become an accomplished juggler
56. Go on an African safari
57. Fund an orphanage and school for children who would otherwise never get an education
58. Start a reading institute in the US that focuses on developing a love of reading to underserved communities
59. Create a start-up business school for minorities, ex-convicts, and new entrepreneurs
60. Become a beacon of business development in Little Rock
61. Create a publishing company for artists and authors to share their work
62. Start a custodian company in Little Rock for self-directed investing
63. Visit all of the islands in the Caribbean
64. Grow my net worth 10x in 5 years
65. Develop enough passive income that I focus my energy on my passions regardless of compensation (100% true financial independence)
66. Establish a true, meaningful set of financial friends in a mastermind format
67. Start my own paid mastermind for help Real Estate investors take their lives and their investments to the next level – Launched July 2018
68. Find an ultimate Real Estate Investor mastermind and be worthy of joining it
69. Create a hedge fund for real estate investing
70. Remove all debt from my life by 50 and never borrow money again
71. Start a scholarship program at UofA and UALR for students who fit the criteria I was in (good grades, average SAT/ACTS, and good students)
72. Take voice lessons to be able to sing even one little bit
73. Finish a 5k
74. Compete in a sprint triathlon
75. Go fly fishing in Patagonia
76. Take a 1-month vacation completely unplugged from the working world
77. Create a YouTube channel and post consistently for 1 year
78. Visit New Zealand
79. Raise $100,000 for an amazing charity
80. Become a master at raising money for business, charity, etc
81. Study photography
82. Become an accomplished video/audio technophile
83. Write and publish a book that inspires me (in the works, will be published in 2019)
84. Help a friend tick off an epic item on their bucket list
85. Empower 25 people/couples to quit their day jobs and live a life of their design
86. Visit the Pacific Northwest
87. Visit the New England states
88. Create a “how many states have I visited tracker” with my kids
89. Go to Hawaii
90. Go to Alaska
91. Wake up before 5 am 6 months in a row
92. Go to bed by 10 pm 6 months in a row
93. Take surfing lessons
94. Go skiing and don’t hurt myself
95. Celebrate 50th wedding anniversary with Lucy
96. Live to 90 while being vibrant and control of my own faculties
97. Inspire an audience so profoundly they demand a standing applause
98. Read and document every book I read ( >25 a year)
99. Become a speed reader to the point where I can read a book a day
100. Start a project with each of my children that inspires them and lasts their lifetime
101. Be able to do 100 pushups without stopping
102. Be able to do 15 legitimate pull-ups without stopping
103. Have healthy, happy grandchild(ren) that I’m a major part of their life
104. Live in another country for 6 months
105. Allow Lucy to live without any worry for money so she can enjoy her books, cozy fires, and donate to charities of her choosing
106. Host block party in our neighborhood
107. Host parties without concern for money, great food, activities for children, and enable people to connect and engage with each other
108. Build community in my circles of influence