What are the 10 things you want to do before you die?

[Christien]

Lubemaster's thread on his new patent prompted this. I'll have to think about mine. I've already checked a few off: have kids, own a 911, sleep with a porn star (oops, wait...) but there are a few still to do.

I'll post a list when I can think of 10.

[legion]

Yeah, I don't know I can think of ten. I don't tend to set goals with anything longer than a 10-year timeframe. I'm pretty fluid, don't really have any life aspirations--other than I would like to learn how to really race (as opposed to tooling around on back roads).

Some of my past goals were to get an MBA from Kellog (postponed) or to make six figures by 30 (too close to call with a year and change to go).

[targa911S]

I'm not going to be prophetic as my kids are grown, doing well and I have grandkids, and everybody is doing well. As is my aging Dad. I'm retired from a sucessful carreer. I have no debts other than living expenses. In my life as a musician, I have known regional sucess and don't want national fame and fortune. So I guess I have fulfilled most of my desires of grand proportions. I would like to travel. See things like The Grand Canyon, Sequoia Forest, Yellowstone and the likes of those American treasures. I have never seen Paris. I would like to see Africa, The Pyramids, Australia and NZ. But these days I hate flying so I think seeing America is the short answer. Maybe a long train trip in the US and Canada all the way to Alaska.

[speeder]

Bang Jessica Alba.

10 times.

[Christien]

I'm talking about really crazy "would love to do" stuff, not real hard-and-fast goals. Or maybe they could be both. Some of my stuff is stuff I'll probably never get to do, either because I'll never be able to afford it, or it's just not in the cards, but it's still on my list.

In no order:
1. have kid(s) - x
2. own a 911 - x
3. go into space
4. visit every continent, incl. Antarctica - 3/7
5. see all the ancient & modern wonders of the world
6. drive a 959
7. go skydiving
8. survive a plane crash uninjured
9. Carnegie hall debut
10. make a real and lasting contribution to the world

I'm a little dicey on actually admitting to #8, in that old rule of "be careful what you wish for!" but it's a weird preoccupation I've always had. Just something relatively safe, like overrunning the runway on landing, or the Jetsblue front wheel malfunction from a couple years ago.

#3 will likely never happen, but if I could ever afford an extra few hundred K, I'd spend it on that. #7 will likely happen someday. #6 I hope would, but who knows?

[Joeaksa]

Have done everyone of them except have a child.

Guess I did not set the bar high enough...

[Superman]

Originally posted by Joeaksa
Have done everyone of them except have a child.

Guess I did not set the bar high enough...

If you accomplish this, you will also be featured in the New England Journal of Medicine.

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by Superman
If you accomplish this, you will also be featured in the New England Journal of Medicine.

I keep telling the girls that if they get on top and I get preggy, that we can sell the story to the National Enquirer and both be rich!

So far only a few have bought the story but its fun to try anyway!

[Sunroof]

I made that list of ten when I turned 21 in Vietnam.

So far of the ten I am doing pretty well, but here goes...

1. After NAM travel all of Route 66 (1969)....done
2. College after USAF discharge.......done
3. Marriage after college...........done and done again!!
4. Learned to fly.....(56 hours so far)......done
5. Certified in Scuba.....PADI.....done
6. Owned a Porsche (four so far)....done
7. Had kids (three and all 18 and over).....done and fixed!!
8. Learned to Sail..............done
9. Lived and cruised aboard a sailboat (three years)....done
10. Retire & live aboard a Trawler (Charleston/Savannah) not yet

Thats it for now!!! It sure has been a great ride thus far......

[Jim Richards]

1. College and Grad School through PhD - didn't finish the PhD program
2. Get married and have a family - done
3. Own a 911 - done, multiple times
4. Yacht racing skipper & crew - done
5. Sports car racing - DE is as close as I've come
6. Fly a glider (sailplane) - I'm acrophobic - done
7. Black Belt in martial arts - done
8. See the world - making progress
9. Retire as a (multi)millionaire - making progress
10. Do two at once - uuhh, well, it seems #2 on my list is not particularly compatible with #10.
11. Play electric guitar - beginner
12. Become a good photographer - on the back burner for now

[Christien]

Well, duh, I think every guy has had #10 on his list and sometime in his late 20s scratched it off, not because it was done, but because he knew that ship had sailed and he wasn't on it, and it wasn't coming back to pick him up! ...or maybe that should be

[Jim Richards]

Still, one can hope.

[fingpilot]

Like Joe, I have done everything I have ever wanted to do.

Yes, I have no children.


Now I can die happy.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I've done most of what appeals to me at this point in my life. No real interest in kids, although picking up a 911 at some point would be nice. Getting a PADI license would be kind of a hoot too - might need to look into that. I'd also like to get back into distance running (I've done four marathons in my life and would very much like to do a few more if/when I can find the time to get training again). I'd love to be buried with a Boston Marathon finisher's medal that I'd gotten the "hard" way (by qualifying under 3:10) rather than the "easy" way a lot of people get them (by knowing someone or raising enough $$$ and getting issued an official bib & number that way).

Going into space would be pretty damn cool too.

[legion]

Originally posted by Christien
Well, duh, I think every guy has had #10 on his list and sometime in his late 20s scratched it off, not because it was done, but because he knew that ship had sailed and he wasn't on it, and it wasn't coming back to pick him up! ...or maybe that should be

I'm 28 and I don't think it's happening.

Had the opportunity years ago, but blew it because I got a speeding ticket taking the two girls home and was so pissed off that I killed the mood.

[Paco Anton]

Originally posted by Christien
5. see all the ancient & modern wonders of the world

6 of the original 7 ancient woders were lost or destroyed in the antiquity (Colossus of Rhodes, hanging gardens of Babylon, Library at Alexandria, ...), in fact only the pyramids in Egypt remain, so you are out of luck on this one...

[Sonic dB]

This is a good topic.

Lou Holtz, the football coach and now TV football commentator
created a list, back in the 1960s of 107 Things that he would
do before he died.

According to Holtz...he actually is close to achieving all of them:

""I've always felt it was extremely important to set goals for yourself. After the 1967 season, our entire staff was fired at South Carolina where I was an assistant. My wife bought me a book entitled The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz. So I sat down and made a list of all the things I still wanted to accomplish in life, and there were 107 of them. Some of them involved traveling, some of them were a little crazy, some I'll never reach - I don't know if I'm ever going to learn a foreign language. I'm not going to be a scratch golfer. Some of them have happened, like appearing on The Tonight Show and being invited for dinner at the White House. But my life changed after I made that list. I think I've accomplished 95 of them. My wife disagreed about the list, though. She thought I should have added something about getting a job. I've been amazed at how many people have wanted to talk about my list over the years. I can't believe more people don't have a similar list of goals. Some of them are personal things-like ones pertaining to being a father or those of a financial nature. They're just something to shoot for-to experience. That's why I say to our athletes and my children - be a participant, don't be a spectator. Do things. Just decide what you want to do and then ask the question, 'What's important now?' Now what do I have to do to accomplish such and such? And that will tell you the action you have to take. It's not a wish list, it's a set of things I wanted to accomplish and it really hasn't changed that much."

[targa911S]

I did a mother & daughter once......never will forget them. No they weren't relatives!

[tabs]

I want to acend into Heaven and be with the Father.

[Jim Richards]

Dunno, you might get pushed down the stairs, tabs.