Life List

[Hagbard Celine]

I don't know if there is a thread like this elsewhere on the site, but I've been thinking about some goals of mine that I'd like to achieve in life. Some things, big and small, that I'd like to do or learn before I die.

1. Achieve peak physical fitness for atleast a short time. Stamina, muscle, diet, etc. Maybe run in a local triathlon or three.
2. Learn jujitsu or some other martial art.
3. Participate in an archaeological excavation.
4. Learn and be fluent in a foreign language or three.
5. Live on the West Coast. (This one may happen soon actually.)
6. Scale a mountain or volcano.
7. Build a house. (I've already almost finished renovating one.)
8. Go back to school for a higher degree than just Bachelor's. Maybe actually study for the LSAT this time
9. Catch a Marlin.
10. Learn to weld.
11. Restore an old Porsche.
12. Embark on a cross country motorcycle journey--see the sights.

I think these are doable and not too far-fetched. What about you guys? Do any of ya'll have a list like this and have you fulfilled any of the things on it yet?

[manu1959]

nice list....very doable.....

never believed in lists or long term goals.....

47 now soon to be 48....i just took life as it came and enjoyed the journey and suprises.....and took advantage of the opportunites life presented as best i could....

worked out pretty well so far and looking back no regrets to speak of....

[glockmail]

Bolds are done!

1. Get my six pack back.
2. Complete my family tree (one side’s done).
3. Learn German, visit my ancestral home lands, take pictures of where they lived, surprise some lost relatives.
4. Build a house.
5. Become financially independent.
6. Ski the Alps (Germany, Austria).

[Cheyenne]

Wow, I feel like such a slackard.

1. I want to influence those I come in contact with for the good. I want them to remember that I added something special to their lives.
2. Want to help my partner achieve some of the goals he has.
3. R-e-a-l-l-y want to move to a warmer climate.
4. Having less financial worries would be good, too.

[Hagbard Celine]

I've decided to go on a week-long mission trip to Honduras in February so that'll be a chance for me to atleast begin competency on number four on my list.

[glockmail]

I wonder if this is any good? http://www.rosettastone.com/offer/cj127

[darin]

My list would be something like this:

• Touch every continent. 4 to go.

[glockmail]

My list would be something like this:

• Touch every continent. 4 to go.

Fondle every color boobie.

[avatar4321]

Bolds are done!

1. Get my six pack back.
2. Complete my family tree (one side’s done).
3. Learn German, visit my ancestral home lands, take pictures of where they lived, surprise some lost relatives.
4. Build a house.
5. Become financially independent.
6. Ski the Alps (Germany, Austria).

with all due respect, as an amatuer genealogist i have a hard time believing you have an entire side of your family tree done. There just arent enough records for that available

[avatar4321]

Fondle every color boobie.

What a noble quest....

[avatar4321]

1. Master several languages.
2. Destroy the gag reflex i have for new foods and incorporate alot more veggies in my diet.
3. get to less than 10% body fat.
4. Be the greatest lawyer of all time. (And no i dont mean a dead one)
5. lay on a mediteranean beach.
6. Finally get my black belt.
7. Preach the Gospel around the world
8. change the world.

[glockmail]

with all due respect, as an amatuer genealogist i have a hard time believing you have an entire side of your family tree done. There just arent enough records for that available

You're right I don't have the "entire side", just the continuation of lineage.

I was contacted by a distant relative in Austria two years ago. He's semi-retired and took on the project of researching our family name as far back as the records are available, and contacted me to find some of the branches in the US. He's got me back 9 generations to 1640's to a village in south Germany. He's also located a broken branch rooted in a German village about 30 miles away, to the 1420's. As we have a very uncommon name it is no doubt the same lineage, but we don't know the connection.

I recently subscribed to Ancestry.com for one year to try and define my Mom's side as far as I can. Unfortunately I've run into a dead-end in only two generations, in Nova Scotia, where half the village has the same last name as my maternal grandfather.

[diuretic]

I don't know if there is a thread like this elsewhere on the site, but I've been thinking about some goals of mine that I'd like to achieve in life. Some things, big and small, that I'd like to do or learn before I die.

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12. Embark on a cross country motorcycle journey--see the sights.

I think these are doable and not too far-fetched. What about you guys? Do any of ya'll have a list like this and have you fulfilled any of the things on it yet?

Sorry, I snipped everything. I focused on 12. Immediately I saw it I was reminded of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (yes I know everyone has read it) but it also sparked in me the memory of the American chautauqua movement which "Zen" sort of references. A uniquely American movement in adult education, almost a spiritual movement but perhaps something that if you're going to do before you die you should think of. And of course, age is no barrier.

[glockmail]

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Awesome book. Use aluminium from a beer can to shim and tighten a handlebar.

[diuretic]

His practicality was quite amazing, I was continually taken with his detailed, almost matter-of-fact explanations about motorcycle things that would have me (a) scratching my head and (b) telephoning the AAA (it being the US). But in spite of myself I remember reading those detailed expositions of how to fix the motorcycle and somehow linking them back to more metaphysical things. To this day I think it's a tour de force of literature and in just, well, thinking. I still love the book.