My Bucket List
Creating and setting out to achieve goals is one of the surest ways to ensure a lifestyle of success. Often times, opportunities and dreams you never expected present themselves because you were prepared. Many of the blessings that have occurred in my life were not planned or even a thought in my mind. Instead, while remaining focused on my ultimate destination, small adventures and challenges presented themselves that I had to accept and conquer.
What will define your life? Once you establish and create the list of things you want to accomplish in this lifetime, you can begin with the small steps that will get you there. Let go of fear, embrace love, and take that necessary step into the unknown. Don’t worry, it always works itself out in the end.
The underlying lesson here is to stop thinking and start doing. The universe takes care of the rest. You only live once and quality matters. What you do with that limited time is your choices.
Here’s my gameplan:
- Positively impact the life of 1 million people
Play college football : 2002 – 2005Play professional football : 2008Graduate college (with highest GPA in major) : Dec 2006- Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Earn a Master’s Degree
Get CPA License : Feb 2008Start my own company : 2007“Experiment” : Ongoing… Til the day I die.Grow my own vegetables, fruits, and herbs (2013….. Microgreens!!!!!)- Live on a Farm
- Open a Farm-to-Plate Restaurant
Go skydiving (In a speedo) : Jul 2009Salsa dance in Barcelona : Jun 2008Attend the biggest party on the planet : Jun 2007Learn to cook (professionally) : 2012Find and learn from a business mentor : 2012Find and learn from a fitness professional mentor : 2012Milk a cow and drink the milk (Feb 2013)- Visit all 7 continents
- Slaughter a chicken (humanely) and eat it (after preparation)
- Make a Documentary
Tour Europe with nothing except a backpack : 2007 & 2008Write a book (PAIN: Why Your Productivity is Suffering) : Dec 2010
- Write another book
- Win a recognizable award for entrepreneurship
- Go on an African Safari
- Make Wine in Italy
- Design my own home from scratch
- Become a best belling author
Take a roadtrip across Europe : 2008- Fluent in Spanish
Cliff jump (Hawaii & Greece) : 2009
- Go zip lining through a jungle
- Whale Watch in Alaska
- Watch a show on Broadway
- Visit Pyramids in Egypt
Mentor someone : 2012- Walk on Great Wall of China
- More to come⦠I am still alive, ya know.
