Life List

Inspired by author, blogger, conference planner, and world traveler Chris Guillebeau, I created a life list, also known as a bucket list, in 2011.  This list is alive and evolving.  I hope to live out my dreams and share them with you. Follow links to learn more about the goal or how I completed it.

2018

Launch a SAAS Product – Carryover from 2017

Fly myself to Las Vegas for a weekend – Carryover from 2017

Land first paid speaking gig – Carryover from 2017

Finish Personal Profitability Book

Crate Personal Profitability Course

Five Year

Visit India for two weeks

Dance all night in Ibiza

Attend South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival

Go to Burning Man

Lifetime

Visit Every State in The United States (See State Tracking Page)

Spend Passover in Jerusalem

Tour Machu Picchu

Spend six months in Europe

Drive a race car really fast on a race track

Smoke a Cuban cigar in Cuba

I don’t have a specific goal for countries, but I’m tracking them here.

2017

Average $10k+ monthly earnings

Buy a house

Speak at a conference

2016

Earn Private Pilot’s License – Finished my license in April, 2016

Take my daughter overseas – We went to London and Paris in April

Take the leap to full-time self-employment

Survive the year on self-employed income without digging into savings

2015

Visit Spain

See The Rock of Gibraltar (from lifetime list)

Dance in Las Vegas with Tiesto

Fly a plane – First flight on 6/21/2015 (from lifetime list)

Become a Dad (from lifetime list)

2014

Get married

Visit Canada

Learn Curling – Took curling lesson in February

Make My Own Pickles

Bought a house! (Was not originally on my “life list” but noteworthy nonetheless)

2013

Publish a paper book

Spend a weekend in Las Vegas (carried over from 2012 list)

Go to Israel

Get new hardwood floors at home

Visit at least one friend out of town

Read the entire Harry Potter series

2012

Visit a friend somewhere outside of Colorado

Pay off student loans

Create a niche website that makes money – See my new Elk Hunting site –Success!

2011

Visit London for a week

Get LASIK/PRK and stop wearing glasses

Learn to DJ

Before 2011

Write a book (see personalfinancearsenal.com)

Record a CD (see HWChet.com)

Extended trip to Israel

Abandoned Goals

Climb All Colorado 14ers (See my 14er tracking page) – Moved out of Colorado in December, 2013. Decided to put my efforts into other goals that I find more valuable.