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What's on your life's to-do list?

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IEC

Elite Member
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Jun 10, 2004
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In no particular order:

1. Honor God in all that I do
2. Graduate from Duke w/distinction in major (not getting any honors for my overall GPA... haha)
3. Go to law school
4. Join the Peace Corps for a year or two
5. Be the best damn lawyer there ever was, and ever will be - so good and noble that I change peoples' perceptions of lawyers for good. This is pretty lofty, but to some extent I think I can do it.
6. Live like the "millionaire next door" aka live below my means.
7. Use my wealth for charitable purposes.
8. Get married
9. Have kids.
10. Teach my kids to grow up with similar lofty and noble aspirations.
 

illusion88

Lifer
Oct 2, 2001
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Originally posted by: krunchykrome
1. Get my CPA
2. Get married
3. Buy a house
4. Have a kid or two
5. Get a graduate degree
6. Retire a millionaire

wow your goals suck.... What a cookie cutter life you have planned out.
 

Xstatic1

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Sep 20, 2006
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gosh darn it, i can't find my "goals" list, but here's the stuff i do remember:
- Learn how to salsa dance
- Take self-defense classes
- Take photography classes
- Years from now?learn how to play golf
- Start planning yearly trips again (annual family & friends trip)
- Take high-speed performance driving courses, likely the one in Charlotte, NC & Birmingham, Alabama
- Meet at least one awesome business person a year
- Own a couple of businesses
- Finish designing my dream house, then have designs framed
- Try sky diving ONCE
- Get really good at target shooting
- Create a website/blog with all the goodies I plan on baking
- Start playing piano again (& be able to play a few songs from memory like I used to)
- Write a book
- Create a website with all the photographs I have of family & friends
- Having a monthly (ideally) family & close-friends get-together
 

TallBill

Lifer
Apr 29, 2001
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Off the top of my head.

3 sets of 10, 100 lb dumbell bench
Computer science degree
Own property with private firing range
Build 3+ quadcore crunchers for DC
Learn to reload ammunition
Take wife to Cedar Point
Visit Arlington National Cemetary
Go to airborne school
Take some sort of martial arts and/or boxing class
Return to America :p
 

DangerAardvark

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Oct 22, 2004
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Christ... am I the only one who doesn't feel the urgent need to procreate?

Anyway,
#1.Wrestle a bear.
#2.Do a backflip.
#3.Sixty-nine Queen Latifah (would also fulfill #1).
#4.Die.
 

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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Travel. Much as I can before I die.

Hopefully within the next 5 to 10 years I can take my company to the next step and I can step away from work and the daily operations.
 

Estrella

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1.Eventually get out of college
2.More charitable deeds(i hate throwing money at situations)
3.Whenever I have kids, teach them humility and somehow relate to them the joys of learning.
4.Get the woman who will hopefully be my wife one day to get back into law(she already starts working for a law firm this next week, w00t!).
5.Get said woman to stop being so cheap.
6.Work on my 85 Celica GT-S Convertible(yes, the year before the AE86:/)
7.Get my friend one of the cars he likes(damnit, looks like I might have to work after all)
8.Learn all the math and physics I could ever want(some sort of grad work preferably, I need structure)
9.Start cooking more
10.Play the violin more
11.Learn to play the piano
12.Martial Arts of some sort
13.Become the person everyone knows I can be.
 

Rabidwerewolf

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Jun 15, 2007
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In no particular order:

1. Swim with great white sharks in Australia.

2. Surf California's Cortes Bank.

3. Travel to Nepal, all though China has fubared the culture.

4. Fish in Alaska.

5. Hike the Appalachian trail from beginning to end NOBO.

6. Try every beer in the world at least once.

7. Finish college.

8. See a giant squid in the open ocean alive and not on tv.

9. Raft th Amazon.

10. See Rosie and Donald actually duke it out.
 

Cattlegod

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May 22, 2001
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1. Finish my MBA
2. Marry at 29-30
3. Have a child at 33
4. Make 5 million by 39
5. Retire at 40
6. Travel
 

imported_Lothar

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Aug 10, 2006
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1. Graduate from my 6yr program.
2. Visit my father's grave site.
3. Save all my vacation days from now on till 2010 to attend the South Africa FIFA 2010 tournament(Yes, I'll be there for the entire 1 month tournament).
4. Buy a house I like.
5. Take my mother on a cruise.
6. Find a girl I love and get married.
7. Have 4 children.
8. Make sure my mother is able to retire comfortably.
9. Move back to my home country and start a business.
10. Write a book.
11. Sky dive.
12. Space travel for a week(hopefully the price of space travel will come down from tens of millions it is today to 5 figure dollars ex: $50,000 in the next 40 years)
13. Retire.