These are not just goals, but dreams I have long had, and dreams that are more recent. I’ve laid these out in lists in many places. I have at least 6 notebooks with the majority of the pages covered with what I desired in my life at the time. Usually it had a goal program associated with it – like 4HWW or E-Myth, to which most of the time I failed to meet the goal.

The truth is, I’ve been afraid for a long time. Fearing what would happen if I actually reached the goals and what would happen if I never reached them. If I reached them I feared I would lose my friends and family to get there, and then run out of goals and be an empty shell of a person. If I didn’t reach them, I could continue to live my life semi-comfortably, with little passion. I would relinquish control of my life to my job and my girlfriend in exchange for mediocre memories and a modicum of regret.

I read somewhere recently of the regret most common uttered before someone dies.

“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”

So here they are… with more to come.

Being:

1. A Master of the Mandolin – Be one of the top 10 mandolinists in the Northeast
2. Financially independent
3. Be an amazing friend (willing to bury a body) to 5 of your closest friends

Having:

1. Earn 1k per month with Amazon FBA
2. Earn 10k per month online with passive income
3. Earn 1k per day with online passive income
4. Own a beautiful home near a ski mountain out west  – in Telluride CA or Mt Baker WA
5. Have 5 friends who would be willing to bury a body (if need be).
6. Time to pursue my dreams and passions

Doing: 

1. Visit Machu Picchu
2. Create a rolling ball sculpture
3. Build a set of skis
4. produce the bad christmas album
5. Produce the drunk Christmas Album #2
6. Travel the world and learn each countries iconic song (not anthem) on mandolin
7. Heliski in Alaska
8. build a rowing shell
9. visit florence lived there one month
10. visit machu pichu
11. visit patagonia
12. own a cabin in the woods on a lake
13. Sail around the world
14. make an art library
15. live in europe for 1 year
16. Build an automated passive income Business that earns 1k per day
17. Ski out west, as a bombchucking ski patroller one season
18. Win the new england flatpicking championship – no longer interested
19. win the winfield flatpicking championship – no longer interested
20. see all the seven wonders of the world
21. visit india
22. visit tibet
23. live in alaska one month Did it for two weeks and it was glorious
24. Make a room of seussical taxidermy
25. produce a cd of my mandolin and guitar music
26. produce a cd of bluegrass hip hop
27. produce bluegrass tango cd
28. write a comic book
29. write a book with shel silverstein style
30. write a book about grandma’s ww2 love letters
31. write vampire hamster book
32. Ski in Portillo Chile
33. See the 2014 winter olympics in Sochi Russia – Missed it, would like to see another winter olympics
34. Create the Fretboard Workshop – Done www.fretboardworkshop.com
35. Teach a mandolin song online once a week
36. Earn a masters at Harvard in Information Technology – Obtained!
37. Motorcycle across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with my brother
38. make audio hat real
39. Make a better mandolin case
40. Make dunegrass pub website
41. Write and record a song a week for a year
42. Visit all UNESCO World Heritage sites