Financial Milestones:

1. Clear all credit card debt
2. Become 100% debt-free
3. Help the less fortunate
4. Build my dream home
5. Own a home in Boston
6. Decide that I have enough money to be satisfied
7. Own a home in Colorado
8. Invest in real estate
9. Own my own business
10. Leave some sort of legacy behind in the form of a foundation
11. Own a home internationally
12. Own an island
13. Have a positive Net Worth
14. Own a small bar/restaurant that features live music
15. Purchase jewelry from Tiffany’s
16. Leave any wealth or assets I have when I go out to people who really deserve and need them

 

Lifestyle:

1. Have a choice to walk on the beach anytime I want
2. Obtain a Master’s degree
3. Find the love of my life
4. Get married
5. Discover what makes me truly happy
6. Have children
7. Witness, and be present at, significant moments/milestones in my children’s lives
8. Create a home with an inviting, joyous, comfortable, loving atmosphere
9. Have a pet
10. Pass on a family heirloom to my child
11. Become a motivational speaker
12. Help orphaned children
13. Release negative emotions and limiting beliefs
14. Release any feelings of inadequacy
15. Allow myself to make mistakes
16. Discover my life’s purpose
17. Learn not to take what others do or say personally
18. Figure out my priorities
19. Learn to act within my sphere of influence and stop worrying about things which are not within my control
20. Become an early riser
21. Kick negative habits 
22. Learn to belly dance
23. Learn to say “no” without feeling guilty
24. Drink a glass of local wine in each of the top 10 winemaking countries of the world.  The countries are (a strikeout indicates that I’ve already had the glass!): Italy, France (was too young to drink when I visited; must go back!), Spain, Australia, Chile, United States, Germany, Argentina, Portugal and South Africa
25. Learn time management
26. Learn more about my grandmother’s life before she’s gone
27. Maintain a positive attitude
28. Stomp on grapes to make wine
29. Acquire persuasion skills
30. Develop greater self-esteem and self-confidence
31. Learn how to take criticism
32. Ride on a parade float
33. Experience bliss
34. Find inner peace
35. Learn how to accept compliments
36. Practice forgiveness
37. Heal my past
38. Have family rituals and traditions to celebrate holidays and important life events
39. Create my Family Tree
40. Become a youth mentor
41. Celebrate my 50th Wedding Anniversary
42. Achieve enlightenment
43. Learn how to establish rapport with others
44. Meditate regularly
45. Meet my grandchildren
46. Create a tradition of getting together with extended family once a year
47. Write a letter to each of my children telling them what I want them to know about my life and the lessons I’ve learned

 

Activities:

1. Create, and maintain, a garden
2. Go skydiving
3. Drive a race car on the track
4. Take a bartending course
5. Drink a pint at the Guinness Factory in Dublin
6. Write a book and publish it
7. Learn to shoot a handgun professionally
8. Take flying lessons
9. Complete the Disney World Goofy’s Challenge
10. Learn how to play the guitar
11. Produce a documentary
12. Take singing lessons
13. Complete the Leadville 100 in enough time to earn a belt buckle
14. Read the Koran
15. Take dance lessons
16. Build a Habitat for Humanity home
17. Volunteer in a soup kitchen
18. Make the front page of the newspaper
19. Volunteer in a homeless shelter
20. Plant a community garden
21. Sell my original artwork
22. Invent something
23. Start, and maintain, a blog
24. Write a children’s book
25. Become a travel writer
26. Attend a Broadway show
27. Attend a symphony
28. Attend Sundance Film Festival
29. Go to the Kentucky Derby
30. Go to a rodeo
31. Attend the Olympics
32. Institute an annual “Mimosas & Baking” party
33. Attend the Super Bowl
34. Attend a party at the Playboy Mansion
35. Cook an entire Thanksgiving meal from scratch
36. Ice skate in Rockefeller Center
37. Get a Tarot Card reading
38. Throw a block party
39. Jump into a pool/the ocean fully clothed
40. Write “Thank You” notes to my teachers
41. Mud wrestle
42. Roll my own sushi
43. Do a Polar Bear Swim/Plunge
44. Play Rugby
45. Hike the Appalachian Trail
46. Run a marathon
47. Learn to snowboard
48. Write a screenplay
49. Camp under the stars on a beach and watch the sunrise
50. Learn how to sail
51. Build a tree house
52. Learn to surf
53. Surf & snowboard in the same day
54. Learn how to play Chess
55. Build a village around a model train layout
56. Attend the Oscars
57. Attend a Cirque du Soleil show 
58. Go horseback riding on the beach
59. Construct/refinish furniture
60. Make stained glass windows
61. Learn glass blowing
62. Run an ultra marathon (50+ miles)
63. Brew my own beer
64. Start a fire without matches or a lighter
65. Learn to hand-glide
66. Break a Guinness World Record
67. Learn how to play Poker
68. Restore a classic car
69. Throw a surprise party
70. Go cliff diving
71. Learn how to box
72. Ride a camel and/or elephant
73. Bike, hike, run, and snowboard in the same day
74. Learn how to decorate cakes
75. Have a professional make-up makeover
76. Learn Spanish
77. Send a message in a bottle into the sea
78. Do a stand-up comedy routine on amateur night
79. Go parasailing
80. Ride in a hot-air balloon
81. Learn sign language
82. Go water skiing
83. Sleep in a castle

 

Travel/Adventure:

1. Spend an entire year traveling
2. Travel solo
3. Take a trip around the world
4. Spontaneously walk into the airport and randomly buy a same-day ticket to wherever looks appealing
5. Explore the Amalfi Coast
6. Hike the Cliffs of Moher
7. Orbit the Earth
8. The ancient temples at Angkor Wat, Cambodia
9. Stay in a 5-star hotel
10. Spend a week or more in Thailand
11. Hike Mount Kilimanjaro
12. Hike/camp in Yosemite National Park, California
13. Participate in La Tomatina
14. See the Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens, Greece
15. Spend time in Fiji and Bali; ideally in an over-water hut on stilts
16. The Sistine Chapel and Vatican City in Rome, Italy
17. See the pyramids at Giza, Egypt
18. Fly first-class without being auto-bumped
19. Take an African safari
20. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
21. Hike the Seven Summits
22. Walk the Inca trail to see Machu Picchu in Peru
23. Visit the Taj Mahal
24. Watch the Northern Lights (the Aurora Borealis), polar regions
25. Walk through the tiny villages of Switzerland
26. Hike through the Amazon Rainforest, South America
27. Attend Mardi Gras
28. Island hop through the Greek Isles:  Santorini & Mykonos
29. Hike through Transylvania
30. Visit (not kiss…eew!) the Blarney Stone
31. Run through Death Valley, California
32. Hike Mount Fuji, Japan
33. Take a boat ride through the Everglades, Florida
34. Camp in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California
35. Take a helicopter tour
36. Explore the ancient city of Petra, carved into canyon walls in southern Jordan
37. Ski in the Alps
38. Participate in the Rickshaw Ride
39. Attend Loy Kathrong in Thailand
40. Visit the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
41. See the Karnak temple and the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt
42. Stay in the Ice Hotel
43. Snowboard through Chile
44. Explore the Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico
45. Walk through Iguazu Falls on the Argentina/Brazil border
46. Spend a week at Burning Man
47. Visit Uluru (also referred to as Ayers Rock), Australia
48. Spend a night in Bora Bora
49. Visit Okinawa & Osaka, Japan
50. Hike through/camp in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
51. Hike the Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina
52. Witness a meteor shower
53. Ride a camel in the Sahara Desert
54. Have three separate meals in three separate countries; all in one day
55. Visit the Patagonia grasslands, Argentina
56. Take a gondola ride along the Venice canals
57. Trek through the jungle on the back of an elephant
58. View Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower
59. Explore the harbor of Rio de Janeiro
60. Walk down the Champs Elysees
61. Retire a pair of running shoes in the Roman Coliseum
62. Ride a tuk tuk through Thailand and Cambodia
63. Travel through Tuscany
64. Visit Havasu Falls in Arizona
65. Explore Spain’s wine country
66. Swim in the Mediterranean Sea
67. Run The Great Wall
68. Travel to all 7 continents before 35
69. Go island hopping in the Caribbean
70. Buy a BMW and do the European Delivery Program
71. Stand on the Four Corners
72. Attend Oktoberfest
73. Visit all 50 states
74. Attend the Songkran Festival
75. Scuba dive in The Great Barrier Reef
76. Visit Moscow
77. Go on a Nappa Valley wine tour
78. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy
79. Ride on the Orient Express
80. Visit the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
81. Swim in Victoria Falls
82. See the Banaue Rice Terraces in the Philippines
83. Hike volcanoes in Hawaii
84. Visit the Borobudur stuppa in Java, Indonesia
85. Camp in Zion National Park, Utah
86. Hike through the Grand Canyon
87. See Niagara Falls lit up at night
88. See the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet
89. Walk through Jerusalem’s Old City
90. Backpack through Sydney & Cairns, Australia
91. Visit he Hagia Sofia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
92. See the abbey of Mont-St-Michel in France

 

Above all Else:

1. Create a self-study program for life-long learning
2. Face my greatest fears
3. Die of old age