|
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."
|