Life Goals

A few days I began writing a bucket list with my friend Justin Leung. Here’s what I got down after our conversation. Note that it isn’t complete, I’ve got 38 more entries to go until 100.  Hopefully you won’t find this too specific; I will condense it in the future.

Enjoy!

-Dale

1 Backpack in Europe and Asia for a month

2 Start a National Library Foundation

3 Learn Chinese

4 Learn German

5 Write a love song

6 Fall in Love

9 Write and produce a play

10 Reform education

11 Be in a Broadway show

12 Learn to sing

13 Learn to dance

14 Become a college president

15 Send a kid to college

16 Learn to fly airplanes

17 Become ham radio operator

18 Be a guest on the Daily Show

19 Ski down a mountain

20 Start a chocolate company that makes only dark chocolate

21 Invent the “next big thing”

22 Free 4G for the world

23 Write a children’s book

24 Stop World War Three

25 Be interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air

26 And be on Talk of the Nation

27 Meet Obama

29 Meet Herb Kelleher

30 Skydive

31 Go paragliding in the alps!

32 Amend constitution

33 Go to culinary school

34 Start a news media outlet that ousts Fox News as the top news source in America

35 Reform California budget

36 Bail out the New York Times

37 Syndicate Jon Stewart at 6pm

38 Improve understanding of atheism

40 Save a life

41 Visit the Wave rock formation in Arizona

42 Win a Pulitzer

43 Win Nobel Peace Prize

44 Compete in the Olympics

45 Get an MBA

46 And a J.D.

47 Visit Greenland and Iceland

48 Start a French bakery chain

49 See Aurora Borealis from Arctic Circle

50 Galapagos Islands

51 Sail around the world

52 Live homeless for a month

53 Rename “Christmas”

54 Adopt the Metric system

55 Open ski resort

56 Encourage public transit and high speed rail

57 Build a full-size tree house

58 Buy an appartmet in Paris

59 Perform in a jazz club in New York

60 Photography published in Nat’l Geographic

61 Achieve $1 billion net worth by age 30 (note: this amount is completely arbitrary. The actual dollar amount means nothing to me)

62 And promptly start my own foundation to give it back to the community