Friday, August 3, 2018

Life Goals

My life goals are now separated into three categories:
1. Things I'd like to accomplish (life goals)
2. Things I'd like to experience (bucket list items)
3. Things I like to see (traveling).

(65 of 108 total complete)

Life goals (13 of 28 complete):

  1. Graduate from high school (2010) ☑
  2. Get a 4.0 GPA at least once (2009) ☑
  3. Serve a mission (Washington DC South, February 2012-2014) ☑
  4. Run a marathon (4:29:03, 04/16/2011) ☑
  5. Earn a college degree (University of Utah 2017 BS Mathematics, Physics minor) ☑
  6. Start my own business (Trading Cards) ☑
  7. Road trip across America ☑
  8. Raise a puppy ☑
  9. Be the best math teacher ever a good math teacher ☑
  10. Learn to play guitar (minimally-- still a lot of improving to do) ☑
  11. Be the best man at a wedding ☑
  12. Run a Ragnar relay ☑
  13. Write and publish a book ☑
  14. Visit every MLB stadium (20 of 30) ☐
  15. Get a master's degree ☐
  16. Run a 5:59 mile (current PR 6:05) ☐
  17. Volunteer/teach abroad ☐
  18. Make a list of classic and/or important books and then read them all 
  19. Read an entire dictionary and make a list of all the words I don't know ☐
  20. Write a feature length screenplay ☐
  21. Write and record a song ☐
  22. Land a kickflip ☐
  23. Learn a second language ☐
  24. Run for a public office ☐
  25. Start a family ☐
  26. Start a charity ☐
  27. Bike across America ☐
  28. Run across the state of Utah ☐

Bucket List (25 of 41 complete):

  1. Play video games for 24-hours straight ☑
  2. Eat a Philly cheese steak in Philly ☑
  3. Score a touchdown, hit a home run ☑
  4. Do street art ☑
  5. Watch the sun set over the Pacific Ocean and rise over the Atlantic Ocean ☑
  6. Ice skate at the Rockefeller Center ice rink ☑
  7. Watch a solar eclipse ☑
  8. Play for the World Cup of quidditch ☑
  9. Learn to ride (and maybe crash) a motorcycle ☑
  10. Go skydiving ☑
  11. Do a polar plunge ☑
  12. Take the Staten Island Ferry ☑
  13. Run a naked mile ☑
  14. Bench Press 250 Pounds (all-time one rep max: 340) ☑
  15. Bike through central park ☑
  16. Kiss the Blarney Stone ☑
  17. Try the Gallon Challenge ☑
  18. Ride in a riverboat on the Thames ☑
  19. See a play in the Globe Theater ☑
  20. Get a hole in one (3 times, in disc golf) ☑
  21. Egg someone (who deserves it) ☑
  22. See the hot air balloon festival (NM) ☑
  23. Go to a football game at the Cowboy's Stadium ☑
  24. Climb King's Peak ☑
  25. Attend a show on Broadway ☑
  26. Go bungee jumping ☐
  27. Attend the FIFA World Cup ☐
  28. Go to a game of the World Series ☐
  29. Go snowboarding and surfing ☐
  30. Fly in a hot air balloon, fly in a helicopter, and ride a horse ☐
  31. Go on a cruise ☐
  32. Run with the bulls in Spain ☐
  33. Climb Mt. Fuji ☐
  34. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro ☐
  35. Hike the Incan Trail ☐
  36. See the Great Migration in the Serengeti ☐
  37. See a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, and Fenway Park (2 out of 3) ☐
  38. Get in a fight ☐
  39. Get arrested ☐
  40. Start a band ☐
  41. Run either the London, the Boston, New York, or the Chicago marathon ☐
  42. Complete my Utah Bucket List

Travel (27 of 40 complete):

  1. Visit every continent (2 of 7) ☐
  2. Visit all 50 states (42 of 50) ☐
  3. Visit/see domestic (15 of 16) 
    • The Statue of Liberty
    • The Space Needle
    • Mt. Rushmore
    • Yellowstone National Park
    • Golden Gate Bridge
    • Zion's National Park
    • Arches National Park
    • The Grand Canyon
    • The National Mall
    • The Gateway Arch
    • Monticello
    • Niagara Falls
    • Plymouth Rock
    • The Boston Harbor
    • Monument Valley
    • Yosemite National Park
  4. Visit/see abroad (12 of 22)
    • Buckingham Palace
    • Stonehenge
    • The Colosseum
    • The Sistine Chapel
    • Leaning Tower of Pisa
    • Pompeii
    • The Matterhorn
    • The Eiffel Tower
    • The canals of Venice
    • The Catacombs of France
    • Notre-Dame Cathedral
    • The Louvre
    • The Great Pyramids of Giza
    • The Berlin Wall
    • The Sydney Opera House
    • Machu Picchu
    • Taj Mahal
    • Chichen Itza
    • The Great Barrier Reef
    • The Great Wall of China
    • The Auschwitz Memorial
    • Northern Lights

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

A Current List of Books I'll Read Someday

Books on my list I've already read:
  1.  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ☑
  2. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien ☑
  3. Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut ☑
  4. 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell ☑
  5. Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ☑
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ☑
  7. Lord of the Flies by William Golding ☑
  8. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ☑
  9. The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer ☑
  10. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ☑
  11. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ☑
  12. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger ☑ 
  13. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ☑
  14. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury ☑
  15. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ☑
  16. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl ☑
  17. Life of Pi by Yann Martel ☑
  18. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ☑
  19. Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card ☑
  20. The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins ☑
  21. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling ☑
  22. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline ☑
  23. The New Testament ☑
  24. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ☑
  25. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ☑
  26. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson ☑
Books to read:
  1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ☐
  2. A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway ☐
  3. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer ☐
  4. The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien ☐ 
  5. Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden by John Steinbeck ☐
  6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller ☐
  7. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells ☐
  8. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote ☐
  9. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair ☐
  10. Dracula by Bram Stoker ☐
  11. Paradise Lost by John Milton ☐
  12. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ☐
  13. 20,000 Leagues under the sea and Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne
  14. Ulysses by James Joyce ☐
  15. The Complete works of Shakespeare
  16. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  17. Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ☐