My List

Hard to have goals if you never write them down, and for some reason I really love reading other people’s bucket lists. When we give up on all dreams it seems we tend to give up on hope. I am trying to get down a long list, seems the older you are the longer your list should be, so mine will just run and run. This is an ongoing and active list, I generally have these lists all over the place so I am trying to get all my ideas on one page, this one. This isn’t really a “bucket list” per-sa but more of a mix of goals, things I want to do, things I strive to achieve, some of which are unobtainable. What’s on your list?

1. Take a ship across the Atlantic
2. Get my pilot’s license / fly solo
3. Circumnavigate the world, in a boat
4. Take a camping / kayak trip for at least two weeks
5. Watch Auburn win the BCS one time in my lifetime (2011 WAR EAGLE!)
6. Go on a long trip (1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year)
7. Visit Niagara Falls
8. Work for a cutting edge tech company or organization
9. Complete Project 365, taking a photo-a-day for a year
10. Learn to keep the spiritual disciplines (study, worship, service, prayer, fasting, solitude, meditation, confession, fellowship)
11. Go to the Ground Zero Memorial
12. Pray continually throughout each year (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
13. Complete an Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Accounting ( UAB 1996)
14. Complete the Master of Arts in Religion, Seminary Degree (March 2012)
15. Complete the Master of Divinity Seminary, Degree (January 2014?)
16. Complete the Master of Theology Seminary, Degree (post MDiv, 2016?)
17. Complete a PhD/Doctorate, Seminary Program (yes, this is quite a pipe dream here)
18. Read 50 books in one year
19. Publish a [photography] book
20. Publish a [written] book
21. Setup an observatory in my back yard
22. Not be dependent on anything but my Lord
23. Live in another country
24. Work in or for a ministry
25. Visit Rome / Greece
26. See the Boston Pops live at either 4th of July or New Years
27. Photography all the planets in our solar system
28. Produce (and print) a professional image of a nebula or galaxy
29. Visit the Holy Land
30. Kayak in the Great Lakes
31. Be instrumental in bringing someone to Christ
32. Memorize one of the Gospels
33. Ride / Cycle more than 500 miles
34. Own a sailboat (Jackpot, LAUGHALOT, a Catalina)
35. Learn the “great” classical music composers (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Tchaikovsky)
36. Read all 25 books described in the book by Renovare (The Imitation of Christ, The Practice of the Presence of God, Mere Christianity)
37. Use my photography to make a material difference in ministry
38. Live on a sailboat short-term (a week)
39. Live on a sailboat long-term (a month, 6 months, a year)
40. Take one photo a day for a year
41. Live full-time in a motor home (bus)
42. Learn to snowboard
43. Touch the Alaska Pipeline
44. Read the entire Bible
45. Visit the Pentagon Memorial
46. Work in ministry for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, and 40 years, Lord willing
47. Be the wedding Photographer, once
48. Live in Las Vegas
49. Take a character to the highest level of WoW
50. Make goals each year, and review them (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
51. Read 52 books in one year (2009)
52. Read 104 books in one year
53. Live in the Colorado Mountains
54. Work full-time at something I really love (my own business, the Church)
55. Work with an organization that is changing the world (Church Body)
56. Drive a Greyhound bus across the country
57. Visit every state in the U.S.
58. Sail across a large body of water
59. Give away a year’s salary
60. Complete a Life Plan as Outlined by Hyatt’s book (Jan 2012)
61. Build a Spa modify the spa in the bathroom
62. Ride a motorcycle at 100mph
63. Write 1,000 articles on my blog (975 as of Nov 2011)
64. Go on a long fast
65. Learn how to invest in other people’s lives
66. Make the Dean’s List in Seminary
67. Be a Christian mentor to someone
68. Have an image of mine published
69. Take 1 million photos (325,000 as of Oct 2011)
70. Read all of C.S. Lewis’ non-fiction books
71. Ride a train across the country
72. Learn to forgive fully and completely
73. Work for God’s body of Believer’s, the Church (2008)
74. Get Married and stay married, be the best husband possible (going on 18 years so far)
75. Travel to all 50 states in the United States
76. Make the garage into a game room
77. Take an actual vacation
78. Read the Bible cover to cover every year (1998, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
79. Learn the very basics of a foreign language (Hebrew)
80. Visit every continent (North America, South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, Antarctica)
81. Live in Auburn Alabama
82. Fill 10 Moleskine journals with daily entries
83. Get a stationary bike (and ride 5 miles a day)
84. Go to the NCAA Final Four (while Auburn is playing)
85. Go on a mission trip to serve people in another country (Uganda)
86. Backpack the Appalachian Trail for 2 weeks
87. Fly to a foreign country with no plans (Hong Kong / Bangkok)
88. Fly an RC helicopter or plane
89. Create a Bird Sanctuary around our house
90. Make a Bluebird trail of boxes/houses around the house
91. Read and log 1,000 books in my book journal
92. Write in my journal every day for a month, a quarter, six months, and a year
93. Watch a soccer match from the English Premiere League in England
94. Operate a motorcycle, car, tractor, motor home, bus, train, plane
95. Work to not worrying, about anything, let Christ be in control (Matthew 6 and 10)