A Lifetime of Goals, Ambitions and Aspirations

On the advice of one of my favorite people in the world, Leilani, I decided to put together a list of goals, ambitions and aspirations. My hope is that I can accomplish each and every one of the tasks on here and that I will keep adding things to the list as I check others off. The goals range from small and realistic to the more challenging and optimistic. Here goes!


1. Be awesome
2. Go to Hawaii for Sean’s wedding
3. Graduate from UCI with at least a 3.0  2.9 and change
4. Drink the old bottle of beer
5. Score at least 1 goal a season in my soccer league
6. Visit family in NorCal during the summer
7. Go to at least one Giants game at AT and T Park
8. Go to 5 Angels games
9. Run three days a week
10. Complete a tough running challenge (Urbanathalon, Tough Mudder, etc…)
11. Attend Randi’s wedding
12. Spend 2-3 weeks in Europe
13. Visit the Bodels in Oxford
14. Get into an internship!
15. Take another psychology class
16. Learn to play the piano
17. Go hiking
18. Trail running
19. Find a career that I love
20. Cook more often (besides just pasta dishes)
21. Blog more
22. Finish The Girl Who Played With Fire
23. Read The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
24. Finish other books still needing to be read
25. Finish the last half of the final season of Prison Break
26. Put on some muscle, somehow, someway
27. Improve snowboarding skills: carving!
28. Learn how to dance respectably
29. See a Chiefs game in Kansas City
30. Attend Mardi Gras with the bro
31. Take a cross country road trip with a/some friends
32. Live in at least one big U.S. city
33. Take a ride on the Rocky Mountaineer through Canada
34. Visit or live in: Chicago, Boston, New York (again)
35. Visit all 30 baseball stadiums (10 down so far…)
36. Go snowboarding in another state
37. Live in at least two European countries
38. Live in Canada
39. Learn some French
40. Drive on the autobahn
41. Snowboard the Alps
42. Ride the Orient Express
43. 50 countries by the time I’m 50
44. Go to a multi-day concert: i.e. Stagecoach, Lollapalooza
45. Volunteer: build a house, plant trees, etc…
46. Meet a girl, fall in love
47. Get married
48. Have kids
49. Buy a new car
50. Buy a house
51. Stay active, no matter what
52. Call someone a “young whippersnapper” when I’m old
53. Be awesome

Additions:

- Watch all four major tennis tournaments in person. (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open)
- Complete a tough man style competition, i.e. Tough Mudder, UK Tough Guy
- Visit Amarillo by morning.