Personal Development
- learn to dance (shag, swing, ballroom, salsa, etc)
- learn how to fix things around the house
- run a 5K in less than 30 minutes
- run a 5K in less than 29 minutes
- run a 5K in less than 28 minutes
- run a half-marathon in less than 2 hours
- feel comfortable in a two-piece
- self-defense course
- learn CPR
- find something to believe in that i would fight & possibly die for
- learn to ski moguls well
- learn to give massages
- take a photography class, get better
- read ‘the’ classic books
- study economics and understand what is wrong with our economy
- learn more about and understand the Israel conflict
- take a vow of silence for some period of time
- LASIK
- stop biting my nails
Experiences
- skydiving
- be buried in the sand
- fly first class
- take the H&R Block tax course
- walk the Appalachian Trail
- shave my head
- build a bonfire and burn something outrageous
- find a view beautiful enough to make me cry
- sleep under the stars
- try snowboarding
- see the aurora borealis
- make my own beer
- make my own laundry detergent
- make my own candles
- make my own soap
try a juice feast- take flying lessons
- go caroling
- tend bar
- cut open a fresh pineapple
- go scuba diving
- ride in a hot air balloon
- experience weightlessness
- ride a camel
- ride an elephant
- experience a mud bath
- swing on a flying trapeze (with the greatest of ease)
- own a yellow jeep (any color, really) and drive around with no doors or windows
- kiss someone underneath mistletoe
- stuff a turkey
- go skinny dipping
- go to a strip club
- learn to hang glide (for real, not just on the sand dunes)
General
- retire by 50
- own a rental property
- write a book
- spend at least one vacation per year with family
- have solar panels in my house
- have a vegetable garden and eat my own veggies
- find a kindred spirit kind of friend
- have a room in my house called “the library”
- have a star named after me, or name one after my kids
- be able to find said star in the night sky
- play an instrument while family sings christmas carols
- witness the legalization of gay marriage
- be featured on the SWW for some reason
- pick wildflowers
- switch to cable
- landscape my backyard
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Regarding Other Beings
- rescue one or more doggies
- train a dog to do cool things
- offer a series of bridge lessons
- bake cookies for a new neighbor
- adopt a family every year at xmas
- pick up a hitchhiker
- help a dog give birth to a litter of puppies
Bridge/Games
- grand life master in bridge
- get paid to play bridge
- spend one year traveling the country playing in bridge tournaments
- attain a decent chess rank
- contribute to a bridge magazine
- be able to attend all three NABC tournaments each year
- win theL fantasy baseball league
- become competitive at something other than bridge
- compete in the Women’s Team Trials
- represent the US in some kind of bridge competition
Professional Development
manage people at work- become a proficient speaker – finish the Toastmasters programs, DTM
- compete in a public speaking competition
- win a public speaking competition
- get an official SAS certification
- earn the respect of my colleagues
- take a trip on the corporate jet
- get paid to speak to people about something i know about
- own my own business (even if just a side business)
- learn JSL
- learn R
Travel
- spend at least a week in a tropical location in a hammock having fruity drinks
- go to a nude beach
- snow skiing in the Alps
- spend several months in a foreign country
- visit Ireland
- see the seven natural wonders of the world
- stay at a five star hotel
- cross country trip by car taking only back roads
- visit the Galapagos Islands
Ongoing
- run 5ks (or longer) my whole life
- stay connected with my brothers and their families
- always have things to be passionate about
- get up the first time the alarm goes off, as a habit
- donate blood
- volunteer
- be loved passionately
- enjoy life now while also saving for the future
- try to make the people around me happy
- balance my own happiness with others’
- evolve my relationship with my parents
- keep appropriate focus on family and self, rather than work and hobbies
If i Have Kids
- natural childbirth
- have a treehouse
- build treehouse myself (or at least help)
- read to my children
- keep the santa myth alive as long as possible
Things To Do Again
- play french horn
- play piano
- play the recorder
- ride a horse (as an adult) the way grandma taught me (as a child)
- visit sliding rock again
- whitewater rafting again – preferably with my whole family
- rock climbing
- ropes course
- get back in touch with a particular college friend
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