"Either you run the day, or the day runs you" - Rohn

At the time of this writing, the days seem to be running me.

One of the hardest things for me to do is to slow down and reflect on where I am in life and where I am going. I have an extreme tendency to let each day bleed into the next and often loosen my grip on life direction.

This blog is one of the tools we are trying to create to keep us on the path we design. We still wander off course, sometimes go backwards, and sometimes stand still, but we have found that writing down where we want to be, and where we want to go, is a large part of the solution.

With that thought, Lez and I put together a list of things we would like to achieve and experience before our lives end. What we feel is important will change and like everything this list will evolve, but here's to a life well designed. We plan on updating this monthly along side our net worth posts.

Our List:

Become debt free - In Process

See Mount Rushmore

Experience all 58 National Parks - We've seen 2/58 so far (not counting things we've seen separately that the other person hasn't)

Witness the launch of a Space Shuttle Mission - Scheduled

Witness the launch of a CEV (Crew Exploration Vehicle) Mission

Become skilled at a card game and attend a national conference (Ryan)

Learn how to change the oil in my car

Learn to play an instrument (Ryan)

Learn Celtic dancing (Leslie)

Own a canoe

Learn how to make a sweater from scratch (Leslie)

See the Northern Lights

Be able to identify major night sky constellations

Be able to identify most trees on a hike

Have a photograph published in a major magazine (Ryan)

Spot, Photograph and identify 60% of the birds found in Peterson’s Guide to
Bird’s of Eastern and Central NA

Grow and create all aspects of a meal

Run a 10k race

Complete the 100 push-up and 200 sit-up challenges

See a whale

Drive from Maine to Alaska

Visit Normandy Beaches

Bag a whitetail buck during archery season (Ryan)

Go quail hunting (Leslie)

Catch a Fish in every great lake - 2/5 so far (Erie and Ontario)

See the Pacific Ocean (Ryan)

Watch all 100 top movies (Netflix list)

See an active volcano

Visit a crater site

Visit Area 51 – Eat at the diner

Visit the Trinity Site

Attend a taping of The Price is Right

Research and understand American History from the Revolution to Today

Learn to cook chili

Hike the Appalachian Trail

Visit Ireland

Build something complex out of wood (Ryan)

Make a quilt (Leslie)

Read all of Stephen King’s Books (Ryan)

Create self sustaining yearly passive income of $25,000

Create yearly entrepreneurial business gross income of $80,000

Read a biography of every American President

Achieve 1,000 blog subscribers

Get my name on a plaque

Visit all 50 states - We've seen 10/50 so far (not counting things one has seen but the other hasn't)

Make a full Thanksgiving dinner (Leslie)

See wild penguins

Ski at Mad River Glen (Leslie)

Sky dive

Ride in a Hot Air Balloon

Get a Black Belt in a respected martial arts style (Leslie)

Visit the WWII Memorial in Washington D.C.


What is on your list?
How do you stay on track?