· Appear on the front page of a newspaper
· Ask myself for a raise
· Attend a baseball game at every Major League park (Visited Metrodome, Target Field)
· Attend a high school reunion
· Attend a MLB game (Many years ago and multiple times)
· Attend a show at the Grand Ole Opry
· Attend a title fight in Las Vegas
· Attend a Triple Crown Race
· Attend a World Series game
· Attend an NCAA Final Four Tournament
· Attend Mardi Gras
· Attend my child/children’s college graduations
· Attend Oktoberfest in Germany
· Attend the Academy Awards
· Attend the birth of a grandchild
· Attend the Country Music Awards
· Attend the Inauguration of a President
· Attend the Kentucky Derby
· Attend the Super Bowl
· Be a great dad
· Be a guest on the radio
· Be a landlord
· Be happily married
· Be happy
· Be in a major magazine
· Be in a time/financial position to help others
· Be interviewed by the media (April-ish, 2010)
· Be my ideal weight (Hit it in 2010, obviously ongoing)
· Be my own boss
· Be on television (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
· Be recognized on the street by a stranger
· Become a net-worth millionaire
· Become an expert on a subject based on this statement: “If you read from 30 to 50 books in a particular subject you become an international expert in that area of knowledge.” (2 on financial literacy, 1 on motivation)
· Become and stay debt free.
· Become financially stable and independent
· Become proficient at piano, guitar, and bass guitar
· Become Scuba certified
· Bike across an entire state.
· Brew my own beer
· Build a cabin
· Catch a home run at a baseball game
· Celebrate at my children’s weddings
· Celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary
· Celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary
· Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square
· Circumnavigate the globe without flying.
· Climb a mountain
· Climb to the top of a volcano
· Complete a marathon
· Cross the Golden Gate Bridge
· Design my own home
· Dine at the Eiffel Tower
· Donate blood regularly
· Donate time/money to cancer research
· Drink a bottle of wine that’s more than 50 years old
· Drink ale in a pub in England
· Drink beer in Germany
· Drink something with an umbrella in it in Hawaii (Summer, 2010)
· Drive a Bentley (Summer 2009)
· Drive a Ferrari (Summer 2010)
· Drive a Lamborghini
· Drive a Porsche (Summer 2009)
· Drive a Rolls Royce (Summer 2010)
· Drive across America, Coast-to-Coast
· Drive the Autobahn
· Drive the Gulf Coast Highway
· Drive Up Pike’s Peak (Summer 2009)
· Earn a 6-figure income
· Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
· Eat a bratwurst in Germany
· Eat a bug (Spring 2009)
· Eat a fish I caught myself (Many times over the years…)
· Eat a hot dog in Chicago
· Eat Chinese food in China
· Eat chocolate in Switzerland
· Eat crab in Baltimore
· Eat crepes in France
· Eat fish and chips in London
· Eat pasta in Italy
· Eat Pastry in France
· Eat strudel in Germany
· Eat tortillas in Mexico
· Find a meaningful retirement project
· Finish my own basement
· Fire a machine gun
· Fix my own car when all but the most serious things go wrong
· Fly first class
· Fly in Air Force One
· Get a 4.0 for one semester in college
· Get a tattoo
· Get certified at CPR (2004, need to be re-certified)
· Give an award acceptance speech
· Go back to Hawaii at least once
· Go on a cruise
· Go on family vacations with my own family
· Go to a luau in Hawaii (Summer 2010)
· Go to the Country Music Hall of Fame
· Go to the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame
· Guest lecture at a university
· Have a second honeymoon
· Have at least one child
· Help my grandchildren through college
· Hike in Alaska
· Hike in Colorado
· Jet ski
· Kayak
· Know someone famous
· Landscape my yard
· Learn a foreign language
· Learn to bartend
· Lengthen my attention span
· Live alone for a time
· Live in a place I love (Minnesota, my whole life so far)
· Live in a small town (Prior Lake is pretty small, but I want to experience smaller)
· Live in Colorado
· Live in Hawaii
· Live in Montana
· Live in the middle of nowhere
· Live somewhere that’s warm year-round
· Live somewhere with seasons
· Live the 10 Commandments
· Make exercise a regular habit
· Make the Dean’s List
· Meet a billionaire
· Meet a famous baseball player/coach (Multiples including Blyleven, Mauer, Cuddyer, Coomer, and others)
· Meet a famous basketball player/coach (Kevin Garnett and others)
· Meet a famous football player/coach (Erin Henderson, Visanthe Shiancoe)
· Meet a famous hockey player/coach
· Meet a famous person (not sports-related)
· Meet a US president
· Own season tickets for the Vikings
· Parasail
· Pay for a car in cash
· Pay my children through college
· Pay off my mortgage
· Pick a date and abstain from alcohol from that point forward
· Publish a piece in a magazine
· Publish a poem (Spring 2010)
· Register as an organ donor (April, 2007)
· Renovate an old house
· Retire
· Re-visit D.C. and all memorials and museums
· Revisit Deacon Lake, Wyoming
· Revisit the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington
· Ride a bull
· Ride in a limo (A few years ago…trip to FL)
· Rock climb
· Run a 10K
· Run for a political office and win
· Save a year’s reserve of money
· Save enough in my retirement fund to live off the interest
· Save someone’s life
· Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
· Scuba in the Bahamas
· See a birth
· See a bullfight
· See a meteor shower
· See a space shuttle or rocket launch
· See a total eclipse of the moon
· See a total eclipse of the sun
· See Eiffel Tower
· See Ground Zero
· See my kids become successful
· See Northern Lights
· See Sistine Chapel Ceiling
· Set up a college scholarship
· Shake hands with a world leader
· Sit in the first row behind the dugout (First St. Paul Saints game, a number of years ago)
· Spend minimum 2 weeks in Europe
· Study scripture daily
· Surf (Summer 2010)
· Surf in Hawaii (Summer 2010)
· Swim in the Atlantic (Many years ago, trip to FL)
· Swim in the Pacific (A few years ago, trip to CA)
· Take a year off
· Tour a Penitentiary
· Tour an old concentration camp
· Tour Gettysburg
· Tour the FBI Building
· Tour the White House (Spring 2004)
· Visit a Tropical Island (Hawaii, Summer 2010)
· Visit Alcatraz
· Visit all 50 states and D.C. [28/51 (States: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NE, NM, ND, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY)]
· Visit Area 51
· Visit Australia
· Visit Buckingham Palace
· Visit Camp David
· Visit Ireland
· Visit Mt. Cadillac, Bar Harbor
· Visit Pearl Harbor (Summer 2010)
· Visit the Bahamas
· Visit the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown
· Visit the Caribbean
· Visit the football hall of fame
· Visit the Grassy Knoll where JFK was shot
· Visit the Great Wall of China
· Visit the Hollywood Walk of Fame
· Visit the Pyramids in Egypt
· Walk my daughter/daughters down the aisle
· Walk the Pentagon Circumference
· Walk through Central Park, NYC
· Watch changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
· Water ski barefoot
· Win a writing award
· Win an award for poetry
· Write a book
