Every five years I set up a list of goals. This is my latest, ending in four and a half years.
1 Travel Yellowstone
2 Travel Washington DC
3 Travel 29 Palms
4. Travel See Northern Lights
5 Travel Europe
6 Travel New Zealand
7 Activity Tour Pixar
8 Learn Stained Glass
9 Learn Drawing Class
10 Activity Cookbook
11 Activity Watch a Space Launch
12 Build Tony Stork Stuffed Stork doll with a goatee and an arc reactor
13 Travel Iceland
14 Activity Tell a story on stage
15 Travel Norway
16 Home Fix Dining Room Floor
17 Home Add A/C vent to upstairs office
18 Home Backyard Furniture
19 Build China Hutch
20 Build Sideboard
21 Build Mantle Art Piece Combined wood and acrylic mountain range
22 Activity Take Opal to more training
23 Build Build a Droid Not a standard R2D2, make it up on my own
24 Travel Antarctica
25 Travel See Iceberg
26 Build New workbench
27 Build Clamp Rack
28 Activity Photograph major meteor shower
29 Activity Enter a photo contest
30 Travel Easter Island
31 Build Bandsaw circle jig
32 Build Custom usb keyboard
33 Activity Try a new, very different look
34 Activity Teach Opal to catch
35 Learn Finale Software
36 Learn Blender Software
37 Activity Teach Opal to roll over
38 Travel Carlsbad caverns
39 Travel Arches National Park
40 Travel Antelope Canyon
41 Activity Find 10 hidden parks in San Francisco
42 Build New table in office with storage
43 Learn Glass etching
44 Learn Milling class at Crucible
45 Learn Glass blowing
46 Build Vacuform machine
47 Activity One straight week of vegetarian
48 Learn A rare skill
49 Activity Teach a rare skill
50 Activity Join academy of science
51 Build Kinetic structure
52 Activity Escape room
52 Learn Making custom cushions
53 Home Murphy bed
53 Build Musical instrument
54 Build Wind chimes for hard of hearing Using light instead of sound
55 Learn Pyrography
56 Activity Meet with my representative
57 Activity Meet with local politicians
58 Travel Visit a Presidential Library
59 Activity Develop alternate income stream
60 Home Refinish stairs
61 Home Basement cabinets
62 Learn Cabinet carcass building
63 Activity Try brains (food)
64 Travel Angel Island
65 Activity Sell a photograph
66 Activity Whale watching again
67 Activity Helicopter Ride
68 Activity Cook a souffle
69 Activity Make cheese
70 Travel New York City
71 Build Slide out microwave cabinet
72 Home Side door cabinet (built-in)
73 Travel Star Wars at Disney
74 Travel Alaska
75 Activity Make risotto
76 Activity Take Fia to the Zoo
77 Build Device that looks like 1940’s radio with modern features
78 Build Transparent video screen
79 Activity Make shop apron
80 Activity Make kitchen apron
81 Activity Make backpack
81 Travel Boston
82 Build Solar project
83 Travel Austrailia
84 Travel British museum
85 Build Drillpress table
86 Travel Yosemite
87 Activity Refurbish the old radio
88 Activity Bathroom cabinets
89 Activity Repaint basement bathroom
90 Learn Airbrush painting
91 Travel Japan
92 Activity Make Watch app
93 Activity Release Watch app
94 Activity Get non-contract job
95 Activity Trip with Mom
96 Activity Open Etsy store
97 Activity Projection mapping for halloween
98 Build Jewelry Box
99 Learn Flocking
100 Activity Create signature pie
101 Learn Frame and Panel doors
102 Activity Lunar eclipse photo
103 Learn Sewing skills
104 Build Branding iron
105 Build Moving lamp
106 Learn Suture
107 Learn Leather stitching
108 Learn Leather Braiding
109 Activity Projection mapping for Christmas
110 Activity Put together new office wardrobe
111 Travel Smithsonian
112 Travel Crater lake
113 Build Crucible furnace
114 Activity Academy of Science Nightlife
115 Home Paint living room
116 Home Fix the window frame upstairs
117 Home Replace windows
118 Learn Sign Language
119 Home Install solar lighting for house numbers
120 Home Redo front garden
121 Activity Herb garden
122 Activity Organize my paperwork
123 Learn Animation
124. Learn Corel Draw
125 Home Front yard camera
126 Learn Watercolors
127 Activity Cook with Fia
128 Activity Live edge turning
129 Activity Cosplay
130 Activity Volunteer
131 Build Murphy bed
132 Travel London
133 Build Puzzle box
134 Activity Ride in a sub
135 Learn Calligraphy
136 Home Repatch/paint bathroom walls
137 Activity Underwater photography
138 Activity Write iPhone app
139 Activity Submit iPhone app to app store
140 Learn Offset turning
141 Travel Portugal
142 Activity Write and submit an article for publishing
143 Activity Donate bikes
144 Learn A new language
145 Build Fire tornado
146 Travel Vermont
147 Travel Maine
148 Activity New Drivers license (RealID)
149 Build Additional side tables for living room
150 Home Make basement room nice and usable again
151 Activity Mission burrito
152 Home Wall art project
153 Travel Finland
154 Travel Africa
155 Build Animated skeleton
156 Activity Pickled Salmon recipe
157 Activity Redecorate Bedroom
158 Activity Purchase Arbans for Trombone
159 Activity SNL Audience
160 Activity Teach a workshop
161 Activity Develop personal brand
162 Activity Meditate at least once per week
163 Activity Drive without audio input at least once per month (no radio/phone/podcasts)
164 Activity Get evaluated for ADHD
165 Activity Have at least six months of buffer
166 Activity Start my own business
167 Activity Throw a dinner party
168 Activity Photograph an active volcano (at least an ash cloud or lava)
169 Learn How to wrap a present nicely
170 Learn How to work on a pottery wheel
171 Learn A magic trick
172 Activity Luau
173 Learn Molecular gastronomy
174 Learn Take a cooking class
175 Activity Try Balut
176 Activity Try chicken feet
177 Activity Haggis
178 Activity Invent something
179 Activity Give blood
180 Activity Ride in a self-driving car
181 Activity Random Road trip at least once per year
182 Activity Write a new list