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