This 101 things I want to do before I die concept was first popularized locally by AOL Vice Chair Ted Leonsis. It took me sometime to write as you find yourself able to deliver 5 or 10 at a time. After 50, you really have to think. A good exercise in dream and vision (image: Dream on by Marirs).
At some point I’ll organize this as nice as Ted’s but not now. It already took me four weeks to write the post.
Family
1) Feel and know true love
2) Give true love without thought for self
3) Have no relative die with any things left to be said between us
4) Support my wife in whatever she chooses to do
5) See my wife with Mikimoto pearls dripping from her body
6) Make sure my family has no financial strain
7) Go on a date every week with my wife (so long as we are in the same city)
8) Have a child, girl or boy
9) Adopt a child
10) Sponsor an extended family retreat
11) Create a legacy at Georgetown University
12) Help my niece at that time (whatever it is) when she needs me
13) Do another leg of the baseball tour with my Dad
14) Spend a week vacation with my sister and her family
Personal Achievement
15) Help one Fortune 500 really get social media right
16) Publish another business book
17) Ride motorcycles again
18) Use my powers to make a major course difference for at least one charitable effort
19) Publish a great science fiction novel
20) Build the biggest social PR firm in the Greater Washington area
21) Sell my agency – Done, July 21, 2008
22) Own a very book friendly coffee shop in Alexandria, VA
23) Have a cameo role in a big time movie as myself, some schmo from DC
24) Contribute to a small child’s education anonymously
25) Work in a library for a year
26) Explore painting
27) Make a great, well recognized 2-3 minute short video
28) Evolve into a much more spiritual existence
29) Regular yoga
30) Help build a micro-economy or ten
31) Publish a NY Times bestseller
32) Host a real radio show
33) See my books on the shelf at multiple bookstores
34) Learn Latin
35) Work on a presidential campaign
36) Become Dr. Livingston
37) Learn to scuba dive
38) Teach on the University level as an adjunct for a couple of years
Real World
39) See a black man as president, thank you, Barack Obama.
40) See DC get full voting rights
41) Spend two years of my life serving a charity in an executive role
42) See a man walk on Mars
Stuff and Experience
43) Go to a Final Four
44) Throw a first pitch at a MLB game
45) Sit in a dugout for a full MLB game
46) Own five cars simultaneously
47) Enjoy several nice wrist watches in my collection, including Omega, Breitling and another Tag
48) Build my own home
49) Have a winter home in the British Virgin Islands
50) Have a summer home in Canada
51) Attend a clinching World Series game
52) Attend a Summer Olympics
53) Attend a Winter Olympics
54) Own a Mac Book Pro -Done, 4-12-08!
55) See running of the bulls
56) Watch a Rage Against the Machine concert before they get too old, Done 8-2-08
57) Own a Ford Mustang, yeah, really.
58) Own and race a Porsche Cayman S
59) And while I’m at it, hook me up with Audi A8L edition. That’s right.
60) Off road tour in my Wrangler
61) Own a great cabriolet
Places
62) Do a spiritual retreat in the foothills of the Himalayas
63) Tour China extensively
64) Stay at the Bellagio for a week
65) Visit Viet Nam
66) Visit New Zealand
67) Visit Australia
68) Visit the heart of Africa
69) Spend a spring in St. Petersburg, Russia
70) Spend a Fall in Prague
71) Stay at the Ventana Inn for a week with no connectivity
72) Hike throughout Big Sur
73) See the snows of Kilimanjaro before they completely melt
74) Live in London for a significant period of time
75) See Mt. Everest with my own eyes
76) Hike Mauna Loa
77) See the rest of the Hawaiian Islands (already been to the Big Island).
78) Take an Alaskan cruise
79) Live in NYC for a season
80) Stay on Richard Branson’s private isle in the Virgin Islands (what’s up)
81) See the Antarctic
82) Hike in the Patagonia range
83) Watch the Orcas from the San Juan Islands
84) Galapagos
85) Drive across the Southern U.S.
86) Madagascar trip
87) Tour Southern Africa
People
88) Have a conversation over dinner with a president of the United States
89) Play a long poker game with Chris Heuer, Todd Defren, Brian Solis, Kyle Flaherty and Shel Israel
90) Meet Bono
91) Dinner with Bill Gates!
92) Talk with the Dalai Lama.
93) Hang with Harrison Ford
94) Do a podcast mini-series with Doc Searls on the Cluetrain 10 Years later
95) While I’m at it, hanging out with Doc at some point wouldn’t be too shabby either
96) Have a video taped debate with Mark Cuban on bloggers versus journalists
97) Tea with Richard Morgan
98) Coffee with Neal Stephenson
99) Supper with William Gibson
100) Breakfast with Alanis Morisette
101) Do one FIR podcast with Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson – Done, July 21, 2008