My 101 Goals for Life

By Kim Roach · March 26, 2007

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Helen Keller once said that life is “either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.”

Listed below are 101 of my life goals. Through the course of writing this blog, I will keep you updated on how I am progressing.

Please list some of your own goals in the comments section below and feel free to email me on your progress.

My 101 Goals for Life:

1. Become a full-time blogger 2. Read at least one book per week 3. Learn photography 4. Visit New Zealand 5. Travel around Europe 6. Write a book 7. Have an article published in a magazine 8. Learn to water ski 9. Run the Deadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon
10. Run the Big Sur Marathon
11. Make new friends (Everybody can use more friends) 12. Spend more quality time with my family (Yes! even the inlaws) 13. Ride a jet ski. 14. Learn to kayak 15. Learn how to create online videos 16. Drive the Scenic Blue Ridge Parkway 17. Visit the Callaway Gardens 18. Learn to garden. 19. Visit Charleston, South Carolina 20. Eat at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans 21. Visit Blowing Rock: a village in the North Carolina mountains 22. Learn to speed read. 23. Improve my memory. 24. See the Northern Lights 25. See a Broadway play 26. Visit the Smithsonian 27. Visit Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Texas 28. Visit Water Country USA in Virginia 29. Attend the Ted Talks
30. Visit the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland 31. Visit Oceanworld Manly in Sydney Australia 32. Visit some of the top European Castles, including Leeds Castle, Frankenstein Castle, Glamis Castle,and Lincoln Castle 33. Visit some of the world’s top Ice Cream Parlor’s, including Ron’s Gourmet Ice Cream in Hyde Park, Massachusetts and Lizzy’s Homemade Ice Cream in Waltham, Massachusetts. 34. Go to a baseball game at Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium and Pacific Bell Park 35. Ride in a hot air balloon 36. Visit Franklin, Tennessee 37. Run in the Peachtree Road Race 38. Run in the Cooper River Bridge Run 10K in Charleston, South Carolina 39. Go to some of the top Christmas Light Shows, including: Silver Dollar City in Brason, Mo. Smoky Mountain Winterfest in Pigeon Forge 40. Visit Zion National Park in Utah 41. Visit Glacier National Park 42. Visit Yosetime National Park 43. Visit the Appalachian Trail 44. Visit Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina 45. Visit Cape Hatteras Light House in North Carolina 46. Take a railroad excursion on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad
47. Visit the San Diego Zoo 48. Go to the Albuquerque International Balloan Fiesta 49. Run Grandma’s Marathon
50. Go to Yanik’s Underground Internet Marketing Seminar
51. Join a reading club 52. Attend a European Soccer game 53. Grow a garden 54. Ebrace each moment 55. Give at least one compliment per day 56. Go tubing on the water 57. Spend more time setting out under the stars 58. Interview those I admire 59. Spend more time visiting with friends 60. Spend more time at the ocean 61. Create a visionboard 62. Go to DisneyLand 63. Go and watch the Olympics 64. Learn to cook Italian 65. Visit Australia 66. visit Fiji or some other tropical island 67. Attend an outdoor play 68. Keep a journal of my favorite quotes to memorize 69. Give up television for one month 70. Become a vegetarian for one month 71. Call a family member every day for one month. 72. Wake up at 5:00 a.m. every day for one month. 73. Find a mentor 74. Make homemade ice cream 75. Visit Zion National Park 76. Visit Conagree National Park 77. Meet someone new every week 78. Visit Anegada, British Virgin Islands 79. Join Toastmasters 80. Join BNI (Business Networking International) 81. Write “real” letters to my friends and family (not just email) 82. Get a personalized license plate. 83. Run a sub-21 minute 5k 84. Read the biographies of Oprah Winfrey, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Hill and Albert Einstein. 85. Fly a kite on the ocean 86. Read educational business magazines once every two weeks. 87. Get six-pack abs 88. Look daily for how to help someone else have a better day 89. Play the game of life in full. 90. Read the Bible daily 91. Listen to educational podcasts while running 92. Customize my Google homepage
93. Organize and clean up my workspace once per week 94. Create a flickr photo album 95. Learn to play the keyboard 96. Visit Patagonia 97. Visit Channel Islands National Park in California 98. Visit a quiet ocean town for a week and do nothing but read and enjoy the water. 99. Sea Kayak in British Columbia
100. Become a good public speaker 101. Do something everyday “just for fun”

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This is an archive of The Optimized Life, a personal-growth blog written in 2007 by Kim Roach from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The articles are kept online for the readers of the many blogs that linked to them. The domain now has a new owner who is not the original author.