121 Life Goals

THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE

April 3, 1998 @ Age 22


  1. 1.Read the Bible straight through (DONE)

  2. 2.Go scuba diving at a sunken ship

  3. 3.Read complete works of JRR Tolkien

  4. 4.Read twenty Shakespearean plays

  5. 5.Visit every country in the world

  6. 6.Spend a night in an igloo

  7. 7.Swim 12 laps (600 m) in under 12 minutes

  8. 8.Swim 24 laps (1200 m) straight (DONE)

  9. 9.Bike across Canada (DONE)

  10. 10.Start a mission school in Africa

  11. 11.Ride the train around India

  12. 12.Motorbike around Australia

  13. 13.Climb Ayer’s Rock (Uluru)

  14. 14.Graduate from college with a BA and BEd (DONE)

  15. 15.Get a Masters Degree

  16. 16.Publish an article in an academic journal

  17. 17.Learn to speak German

  18. 18.Finish learning French

  19. 19.Play all of Bach’s lute suites on the guitar

  20. 20.Be able to play all the band instruments (especially the oboe, flute, bassoon and French Horn)

  21. 21.Run a marathon (DONE)

  22. 22.Listen to all of Sibelius’s symphonies live

  23. 23.Conduct an orchestra

  24. 24.Play in a Christian alternative band and tour

  25. 25.Record a CD at least 40 minutes long

  26. 26.Get married and have children (DONE)

  27. 27.Get my carpenter’s license

  28. 28.Run for political office and win

  29. 29.Star in a film

  30. 30.Perform in a major play

  31. 31.Get my ARCT in guitar

  32. 32.Build a guitar from scratch

  33. 33.Canoe down the whole Mackenzie River (DONE)

  34. 34.Sheer sheep (DONE)

  35. 35.Take cooking classes (DONE)

  36. 36.Grow a tropical garden

  37. 37.Grow a Canada garden

  38. 38.Paint a picture of my wife

  39. 39.Paint a picture of each of my kids

  40. 40.Paint a picture of each of my immediate family members

  41. 41.Join Promise Keepers

  42. 42.Live to see the year 2050

  43. 43.Produce, direct, write, or act in a film about the Acadian Deportation

  44. 44.Write my autobiography

  45. 45.Read the complete works of C.S. Lewis

  46. 46.Read the complete works of Roald Dahl

  47. 47.Own and operate a café

  48. 48.Write 100 songs

  49. 49.Play trombone in an orchestra

  50. 50.Go skydiving (DONE)

  51. 51.Visit all 10 provinces (sleep at least five nights in each one)

  52. 52.Visit all fifty states (sleep at least two nights in each one)

  53. 53.Go on a cruise

  54. 54.Get my life guarding certificate (DONE)

  55. 55.Learn to cut people’s hair

  56. 56.Learn to play the bass guitar

  57. 57.Lead 100 people to the Lord

  58. 58.Lean to play the accordion

  59. 59.Publish a novel

  60. 60.Speak with three Prime Ministers of Canada

  61. 61.Learn advanced calculus and analytic geometry (DONE)

  62. 62.Write a computer program

  63. 63.Win twenty-five FreeCell games in a row (DONE)

  64. 64.Create and upkeep a website (DONE)

  1. 65.Learn to make ice cream (DONE)

  2. 66.Write a book of poems

  3. 67.Make a beautiful vase on the throwing wheel

  4. 68.Plant 500 trees to make up for the ones I have used up

  5. 69.Win an Oscar for a documentary

  6. 70.Have a letter to the editor published in a city newspaper

  7. 71.To help Salomé make a cartoon film for the National Film Board of Canada

  8. 72.Play Hockey on a team

  9. 73.Build a house

  10. 74.Learn to dive from a diving board (DONE)

  11. 75.Learn to do a cartwheel

  12. 76.Make a grandfather clock

  13. 77.Learn my times table up to 50X50

  14. 78.Invest in the Montreal Stock Market

  15. 79.Join a peace organization (DONE)

  16. 80.Take a photograph and have them included in a National Geographic issue

  17. 81.Climb to the summit of mountains in twenty countries

  18. 82.Go fishing at night in New Brunswick

  19. 83.Go sailing (DONE)

  20. 84.Go surfing

  21. 85.Go snow boarding (DONE)

  22. 86.Go ice fishing and catch a fish

  23. 87.Write the biography of someone I admire

  24. 88.Pray everyday of my life from now on (cross this one off when I die would you)

  25. 89.Go on world’s biggest roller coaster

  26. 90.See the Sistine Chapel

  27. 91.Go skinny dipping with my wife (DONE)

  28. 92.Grow a beard for one year (DONE)

  29. 93.Shave everyday for one year (DONE)

  30. 94.Own goats and milk them for what they are worth (DONE)

  31. 95.Sponsor a child for 10 years

  32. 96.Roll in the snow after sitting in the sauna

  33. 97.Arm wrestle with a WWF wrestler

  34. 98.Learn to read Arabic

  35. 99.Learn an African dialect

  36. 100.Ride a camel through the desert

  37. 101.Teach for at least 25 years

  38. 102.Memorize a book of the Bible (DONE)

  39. 103.Sing an original song to my bride at my wedding (DONE)

  40. 104.Go to NFL, NHL, CFL, NBA, MLB, and European Football games

  41. 105.Adopt a child

  42. 106.Work at a polling station

  43. 107.Be a juror (I know it’s random)

  44. 108.Learn Spanish (DONE)

  45. 109.Baptize someone (DONE)

  46. 110.Do my family tree back ten generations (DONE)

  47. 111.Memorize the flags and capitals of all countries

  48. 112.Memorize the names of all of Canada’s Prime Ministers and all the US Presidents and leaders of France, Russia, Great Britain and China since 1900

  49. 113.Go hang gliding

  50. 114.Get First Aid certification (DONE)

  51. 115.Get class 4 driver’s license

  52. 116.Keep a daily journal for five years

  53. 117.Start up a guitar ensemble

  54. 118.Have CUC include all of its titles and letter heads in French also

  55. 119.Learn to do macramé and knit

  56. 120.Go windsurfing

  57. 121.Compose a song for band (or arrange) (DONE)