Fifty one things (for starters) I want to do in my life:
1. Learn how to surf.
2. Play soccer in villages throughout South America.
3. Earn a black belt in Aikido.
4. Scuba dive on the ruins of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
5. Write for National Geographic and Smithsonian.
6. Visit the Pacific Islands my father fought on in WW II.
7. Build a kinetic sculpture.
8. Wander for hours through the National Gold Museum in Bogota, Colombia.
9. Pilot a mini-sub.
10. Write a book.
11. Illustrate my book.
12. Drive a sportscar among the Swiss Alps.
13. Helicopter in and explore St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea.
14. Explore a castle.
15. Learn to fly a biplane.
16. Help excavate a Roman hill fort.
17. Do a triathalon.
18. Live in a lighthouse.
19. Scuba dive and excavate a sunken pirate ship.
20. Bicycle across America.
21. Climb Mount Rainier.
22. Downhill ski in Austria.
23. Sail around the world aboard the Picton Castle.
24. Visit Robert Falcon Scott's wintering hut in Antarctica.
25. Trek the Incan Trail to Machu Picchu, Peru.
26. Act as a power broker for the Nature Conservancy.
27. Participate in creating a marine preserve.
28. Raft the Grand Canyon.
29. Attend wooden boat school in Port Townsend, WA.
30. Build an eco-home thats entirely off the grid.
31. Watch a spectacular volcanic eruption live.
32. Fly a glider over New Hampshire on a bright autumn day.
33. Kayak remote islands among the Solomons.
34. Explore Cape Canaveral and watch a space shuttle launch.
35. Regain my ability to play the drums.
36. Develop training systems that improve people's ability to think vertically and laterally.
37. Become financially independent.
38. Steward a Legacy Fund for my family and future generations.
39. Sail the Baltic Sea in a replica Viking Longship.
40. Dive with white sharks off South Africa.
41. Explore Cocos Island off the coast of Costa Rica
42. Live in a tree house built in the Hawaiian rainforest.
43. Become skilled in each of Tom Brown’s Tracking and Survival classes.
44. Go Caving on Prince of Wales Island.
45. Go sailing with John C. Maxwell.
46. Explore Mayan ruins in Yucatan, Mexico.
47. Land on Elephant Island and stand where Sir Earnest Shackleton’s crew built their hut.
48. Get a Ph.D in Archaeological Oceanography.
49. Visit where each of the Seven Wonders of the World once stood.
50. So win the heart of a phenomenal woman that she leaps into my arms when I propose.
51. Raise some great kids who grow to live their own lives of significance.Beyond that, I enjoy soccer, basketball, cycling, rowing, trekking, travel writing, I'm studying spanish, and I read constantly. The written word is the greatest invention of all time.
I'd like to meet:
Pretty much anyone. Everyone has a story and a defining purpose, which makes them fascinating.
Music:
My tastes are pretty eclectic. A little bit of everything...
Movies:
Apollo 13, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, Miracle, Batman Begins, The Incredibles, Gladiator, Star Wars I-VI, Pirates of the Caribbean, Raiders of the Lost Ark, 8 Mile.
Television:
Don't own one.
Books:
For Life: the Bible, A Vocabulary of Faith, Today Matters, Your Best Life Now, Being Happy. For flights of the imagination: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Dune, The Dark is Rising, The Anubis Gates, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Face in the Frost. For Business: New World, New Mind, The Ecology of Commerce, The Earth is Flat. For Thinking: Lateral Thinking, The Mind Map Book, Who Moved My Cheese, Psychocybernetics, Thinking For A Change, Hung by the Tongue, As A Man Thinketh. For Writing: Writing Down The Bones, Writing For Story, Steering the Craft, On Writing Well. For Relationships: Winning With People, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Becoming a Person of Influence, Five Love Languages, Confidence and Power in Dealing with People. For Adventure: The Starship and the Canoe, The Snow Leopard, Encounters with the Archdruid, Devil's Teeth, Ship of Gold in a Deep Blue Sea, Where the Sea Breaks its Back, And No Birds Sang, In Pategonia, Stones of Silence.
Heroes:
Jim Lovell, George Schaller, Peter Matthiessen, Jacques Cousteau, William Wildes, Brad Wolgamott, Tracey Eaton. And anyone who pursues their dreams.
