Last night my men’s group and I drafted out a list of 100 goals and dreams.
We aimed to have 90 of them be lifetime goals/dreams and 10 of them to be completed in 2009. Each man’s list looked very different. Some of the guys completed the entire list while at group and some of us still need to finish our list up.
I got to #75 before the night was over. These items are by no means exhaustive, but they are things I want to do/be/buy/give/see.
Here are some of mine:
* Go to Alaska
* Go to Italy
* Get average of 2500 blog readers per day in 2009
* Sponsor at least 3 more kids through Compassion International
* Increase giving at church by $150 per month
* Get down to 180lbs
* Have at least 4 kids
* Adopt
* Learn Sign Language
* Read entire bible cover to cover in 2009
* Have dinner with Grandad who is in poor health at least 1x per week
* Build a chicken coop and offer free eggs to friends in 2009
* Go camping with my family
* 2009 to be 100% pornography free with no accidental “slip ups”
* Be on a billboard
* Write a book
* Have 1 year of buying nothing new
* Go stay on the pioneer woman’s ranch
* Ride a bull
* Pay off all non-home debt in 5 years
* Pay off house in 15 years
* Make an 800sq. ft. garden in 2009 (already have 400 sq. ft.)
* Own a 70-200 f/2.8 lens
* Install a gas range
* Have a “pro kitchen”
* Live with more people in our house
* Get teeth implants
* Get Ava into gymnastics in 2009
* Own a trampoline
* Be published in magazines
* Sing to Ava every night
* Go to the gym 3x weekly
* Finish my Golden Bathroom (it will be glorious)
* Finish out tattoo sleeve
* Fast for 7 days without food
* 30 days of sex in a row! (with Allison of course)
* Start drinking beer (I’ve always hated it)
* Become a Cincinnati tour guide for my friends
* Own a motorcycle
* See more than 100 people come to follow Christ through Vineyard Westside in 2009
* Do another Tri-Athlon
* Six-Pack abs
* Out-Serve my wife without the possibility of it being argued otherwise for the rest of my life
* Take men’s group camping in 2009
* Take men’s group go-cart racing
* Read 20 books in 2009
* Teach at least 15 times at Vineyard Westside in 2009
* Get caught speaking well of others
* Give at least $10,000 to someone…sometime.
* Date night 1x weekly with Allison
* Create an artistic short film (around 20 minutes)
* Officiate 200 weddings
* Photograph 100 weddings
* Split-off another men’s group in 2009
* See my non-church going family go to church regularly
* Give people the benefit of the doubt more often
* Grow a 6″ long beard
* Do 15 recipe tutorials in 2009
* Go snowboarding
* Break more bones
* Start up a biznistry (business that has ministry woven in)
* Do the polar bear dive
* Be fluent in Spanish
* Go back to Honduras
* Become a spiritual adviser on Haubner Rd.
* Drive a Ferrari
* Be married for 75+ years
* Own a nice road bike
* Give away my stuff
* Be a part of a fight club
* Go to Hawaii
* Go on 4 sabbaticals
* Have a fast car
* Organize a community garden
* Milk a cow and drink from an udder
* Have more than 1,000 people at my funeral
These are some of mine…the list isn’t finished yet. Next week we’re going to talk more practically about how we plan to accomplish these things. Check out John Goddard’s list of 127 things that inspired the idea.
You should write one.
This list is AWESOME!! “Join a fight club” kinda cracked me up!
I did a list of 40 things to do before I turned 40 before my bday last August. I did 29 of them, but at least I did some of them! It was very cool to have goals to look forward to. Right now I’m working on my list for 2009.
I wandered over here from PW. Love your blog!
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I would start mine and get to number 9.
I’d write something about not procrastinating on a single thing in 2009.
Then I would promptly say the other 91 can wait a little while.
-Chris
Weather Moose
The Dedicated Procrastinator
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Save a room for me! I can help with the *Live with more people in our house goal!
I’m thinking next October…
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I want to stay on PW’s ranch too!! I found another website list project that was 101 things to do in 1001 days. I have to get a list started!
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Very revealing
I’m gonna do one of those!
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Just a thought… You may want to forgo that “start beer drinking” if you truly want to achieve a certain weight. Unless you are trying to GAIN!
How about “drink more water”!
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Great list. Reminds me of Mark Batterson’s life list. I’ve started mine but haven’t gotten to 100 yet.
Appreciate your sentiment, goals and honesty here.
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I’m going to have to post my list too, when I finish it. Snap, I’m so slow. I’ve been writing them on a post it note here at work to ad to my list when I get home.
I think the best goal ever was Skin a Bear but I kind of liked Get punched in the face too.
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Good Lord Almighty!! Wow… good luck with all those! Kudos to you if you can actually complete them all!
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AWESOME.
Good luck in your endeavors. Can I be one of your 200 weddings?
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I want to stay at Pioneer Woman’s ranch too! Except your probably have a chance of that happening.
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Good luck with those! I just did a 101 in 1001 days and so far I am working on a bunch of them and making a sub list to add to it. I think I need to add enjoy beer as well. My palate just isn’t honed for it, but I can tell that certain beers could be good. My tongue isn’t trained yet- and I know it would make my man sooo happy if I could enjoy a beer with him
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@TheDan — One of my goals for 2009 is to punch someone in the face so when I see you Sunday, we can each mark something off our list.
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i can help you with the spanish thing, cos im colombian, and hence im really good at speaking spanish.
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That is an awesome list! As a woman I’m amazed at how many items on your list would also be on my list. I wish you the best on your journey!
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Love it!
) Think you have a better chance at staying at PW’s ranch, but I’d love it, too! 
) Also would love to adopt… thinking about it. I was a bit worried when I saw have 4 kids… unless Allison is having quads, or you adopt 3 this year 
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I could totally go for 15 recipe tutes from you… that’s how I found you!
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Owning chickens and giving away free eggs to neighbors and friends is what I do! Let me know if you need plans for a coop and pen…we made one 2 years ago. Check out http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/ for good info and all the different varieties of chickens!
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I love that idea! I think I’m going to make a list of my own.
What are the ideas you have for a biznistry? I’m really interested in that.
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I’d do the Ferrari thing AFTER you give everything away…
Nice list, I too want to stay at PW’s, in that nicely updated Lodge.
I do wish you’d reconsider the trampoline. They’re a concussion waiting to happen. Or at least, don’t combine the beer and trampoline!
As for chickens, we had them when I was a kid. Swore I’d never own them again, and still have trouble eating chicken. They’re not the cleanest or the smartest animals.
Kudos to you for including Ava and Allison, so often we forget those people closest to us.
Good luck on your list – you’re already at least one regular reader toward your 2009 goal!
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My list is up, woohoo! http://stevenixon.net/?p=494
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I Live in Alaska. It is …..well wonderful!!! Majestic! Beautiful! I live in Eagle River. so when you decide to visit let me know We have 2 teens who are sooooooooooo on fire for GOD and walking with HIM. Our teen church is amazing and we would love the visit. so like I said let me know when you want to visit. Rhonda
p.s. be prepared when you do visit to want to stay and move here.
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Thanks for sharing this. The other day I was thinking about doing something like this and you’ve given me the final push to do so. It’s good to have goals and desires, short and long term, that help fill life up to the brim and keep days from being wasted.
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LOVE this!!! I have a list too, but not for the lifetime…I do it yearly. Best wishes for crossing them all off!!!!
Stacey from Wyoming
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Ha ha ho ho hee hee @ Fran! Would love to see that.
Ryan, love your list and am looking forward to the 15 cooking tutorials and I will definitely buy your book!
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Hey hey hey, it is NOT my goal to get punched in the face. That was another guys list. I have already been punched in the face a few times, thank you very much. I just posted my list and you will not find get punched in the face on there.
http://danthoms.blogspot.com/2009/01/100-life-goals.html
Ps. I’m the perfect person to punch in the face. I’m a pacifist so I don’t hit back.
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I so appreciate your honesty. You’ve inspired me to make my own list, and I like your debt-free timeline. I think I’d been thinking it was all-or-nothing in a year for my family. I don’t think we can do it in a year!
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I love how absolutely honest you were by mentioning the pornography. It seems that either most guys don’t care to fix this problem or they are too ashamed and I think it’s fabulous that you are standing out in the crown to publicly honor your wife by saying “no”. I applaud you as I’m sure your wife and God do too!
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I can teach you sign language!
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Goals. Goals. Goals… I have already started to fulfill some of my list.
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I <3 this! What a wonderful way to start the new year – I like the 10 to be completed in 2009. I’ll have to talk to my husband and start one with him.
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Well I kinda have 2 lists…
I call the big list my things to do before I die http://www.captivethoughts.net/?page_id=1584
And part of that list includes exploring my own city as a tourist
http://www.captivethoughts.net/?page_id=1814
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You better git busy on your list too! (I borrowed a few from you I think)
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Working on my RIGHT NOW!
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Great list. And I love the transparency and honesty of it. Great luck on all of these! It’s going to be quite the adventure.
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Wow Ryan, Our lives couldn’t have been more different yet we share so many goals! Reading your list gave me new hope that regardless of our nationality, religion and occupation we all have good intentions and want to do good for other people:-)
Love
Matin
Ps: Big fan of your recipes on PW, looking forward to new ones in 2009:-)
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Wow this is just hilarious…especially the guy who said have 30 days of sex in a row with allison lol…
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Don’t give up porn! I have to make my list.
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