I decided to go through my life goals from 1999 post and re-evaluate how I would rank those 14 years later. I created 4 categories: Will Do, Probably, Maybe, and Unlikely. Note: this is not a list of today’s goals, merely a re-categorization of the old list.
Will do
- Drive Across Canada
- Visit all 11 provinces and 52 states
- Visit New Zealand and Australia
- Spend at least 3 weeks in Australia
- Run in a marathon
- Engineer an innovative software product under my company name
- Invent a product under my name
- Visit the pyramids of Egypt
- Visit the Eiffel tower
- Bike down a ski-hill in summer
- Learn Ice Climbing
- Circumnavigate the globe
- Watch a building be demolished (from afar)
- Drive a float in a parade
Probably will do
- Earn a degree
- Bike across Canada
- Write a book
- Build a house on a mountain. (actually BUILD the house)
- Live on the coast (beachfront) for at least 2 months
- Run a 5 minute mile
- Run the Jasper-Banff relay
- Fly a glider
- Teach at a college
- Visit Buzludzha
Might do
- Get commercial pilots license and become IFR rated
- Reach the North pole
- Hike the continental divide trail
- Participate in Rally and Ice racing
- Go scuba diving
- Live in a houseboat for at least 2 months
- Learn French
- Go bungee jumping
- Go sky diving
- View mount Everest by helicopter
Highly unlikely / off the radar
- Land a bush plane on a gravel bar (obviously I was a lot more into aviation 13 years ago)
- Fly a Hercules
- Fly a 747
- Teach a child to walk (I rememeber putting this one in just to score points with my grandma)
- Meet the prime minister (meh)
- Release a CD (DJ Daryl?)
- Meet the pope (again, put this in for someone else, not me)
- Visit Disneyland (no interest. at all)
Done
- Fly across Canada
- Go rappelling
- Rock Climbing
- Hike/Bike signal mountain
- Learn CPR
- Teach the world what I know
- Appear on TV
- Make a speech or interview on the radio
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