The Long Overdue Goals List

100+ Goals for 2010

It's so easy to get caught up with what's going on RIGHT NOW, that sometimes you have to stop and make sure to take care of the basics. So before I get into a lot of the stuff I've really been delving into, like the argument of nature vs. nurture, impact of environment, and my general amazement at inter-connectedness, at some point I wanted to share my long list of goals or things I'd like to do for 2010, especially since some of these things are accomplishments I've already done.

Some of these are going to seem strange, and if I explained each one individually the post would grow too long for anyone to finish. So this list is a combination of goals, things that simply need attending to (like medical), and a lot of odd and end stuff that either has an odd story with me, a personal meaning, or simply makes sense based on my life priorities. For example, I have a lot of individual states listed that I want to visit. This is because I've always wanted to visit all 50 states by the time I was 30. It occurs to me now that I'm not sure if this meant by my 30th birthday, or until the end of the 2011 when I turn 31. It feels like I meant the second, but hey, mine as well take a run at all the states.

And some of these will be "in code" because I have a lot of ideas and you simply can't copyright ideas, so they're coded so they can't be stumbled upon and grabbed by someone else. Many of these goals are also heavily business or money oriented, but those are important issues in my life (and I imagine about everyone's) at this point, and achieving those goals also opens up a lot of other things. I can live in a safe neighborhood if I can afford the rent - and I've disarmed enough people with knives in the past to know I'm not quite as fast as I want to be, and I just don't want to deal with that kind of crap anymore. Also, if I have full time passive income, I can travel and spend money learning new skills and really enjoying a drifter's life the way I'd like to. Having the business do well enough to make a full time income would mean financial independence and having the joy of helping so many people. It's all related.

So anyway, I'm just going to toss out the list with minimum commentary and if anyone is fascinated, confused, or has a question, go ahead and mention it in the comments. Goals that are both bolded and italicized means the goal has already been done this year.

Goals/aims/etc for 2010:

1. Lose 100 lbs from my heaviest weight
2. Visit Utah
3. Be a "Hero" for a day
4. Visit friends in Oregon
5. Write my mini-screen play (zombies in Fairbanks, AK)
6. Really get Just Plain Wrong, LLC going
7. Co-author screenplay with Tom
8. Finish brand new novel
9. Finish co-written novel
10. Study Spanish to become conversationally fluent again
11. Learn basic tourist French
12. Write 10 zombie stories
13. Fully revise My Brother's Keeper one more time to send out
14. Get Truth Exposed Publishing, LLC to full time income
15. Get 10 short stories published
16. Get 5 poems published
17. Get 5 essays published
18. Visit Idaho
19. Visit Montana
20. Visit North Dakota
21. Visit South Dakota
22. Visit Wyoming
23. Visit Louisiana
24. Visit Mississippi
25. Visit Alabama
26. Visit Georgia
27. Visit North Carolina
28. Visit South Carolina
29. Visit Hawaii
30. Visit Delaware (you know, since supposedly it exists)
31. Visit Massachusetts (sorry if I butchered the spelling)
32. Expand my IMDB page
33. Earn over $40k
34. Pay off all credit cards
35. Learn a new arts or crafts skill
36. Double my bench press
37. Develop my passive income to a full time level
38. Write a weekly letter
39. Watch 5 classic movies I've never seen
40. Read 5 classic books I've never read
41. Have 1st draft of "College" non-fiction book finished
42. Establish myself as a copywriter
43. Enter and place in a sit down (not online) poker tournament
44. Write 300 additional pages of fiction
45. Enter 20 writing contests
46. Practice golf swing - couple of trips to the driving range after church
47. Eat @ 20 new restaurants
48. Really explore The Amana Colonies
49. Save up enough to open a Roth IRA
50. Get driver's license (stunned this has managed to slip through the cracks this long)
51. Get a passport
52. Visit foreign country
53. Earn enough to enjoy a week vacation in Las Vegas
54. Learn basic flair bartending
55. Learn to box
56. Visit 20 flea markets
57. Get my wisdom teeth and infected molars removed
58. Get my other teeth fixed
59. Get those important eye tests done
60. Read 20 novels off my "someday" list
61. Get "Sports Haters" site started
62. Try to average one blog post a week at Master Dayton writing blog
63. Get 20 niche sites set up
64. Learn a new fighting skill
65. Find a shooting range
66. Camp at least 1o nights this summer
67. Meet with JT & Iver
68. 4 weekend or local adventures
69. Tithe regularly
70. Get to 200 published HubPages hubs under Jerry G2 handle
71. Get to 200 published Squidoo lenses
72. Re-gain lost self-confidence
73. Get $1,000 in a savings account
74. Be into shape to run a 5k
75. Be able to bike 30 miles in one sitting
76. New wardrobe (I admit this is LONG overdue)
77. Change somebody's life for the better
78. Find something to volunteer for
79. Spiritually feed myself daily
80. Meet 5 famous people in person
81. Visit 5 out of state friends
82. Ski
83. Fish
84. 20 mile hike in 1 day
85. Donate $500 to charity
86. Donate $300 to Coe
87. Write 200 new InfoBarrel articles
88. Write fiction daily
89. Try to average 2 blog posts a week on here (more of an accountability thing, the actual numbers are less important on this one)
90. Learn to cook Chinese food
91. Learn to cook Cajun
92. Compete athletically in something
93. Challenge myself to overcome a fear
94. Re-capture that old flair
95. Learn to sword fight
96. Start YouTube sketch comedy show
97. Write TC parodies - full scripts all episodes
    
98. Read 5 biographies
99. Start 10 niche blogs
100. Develop PA strategy - ebook program to follow up
101. Develop "secret project"
102. Make functioning recliner out of cardboard and duck tape
103. Improve throwing knife accuracy
104. Pay Mike off completely
105. Finish paying off medical bills (finally)
     
106. Re-gain thorough lust for life
107. Go to 4 concerts
108. Take personal time daily
109. Complete first full collection of poems
110. Finish new novel idea, co-authoring with Tom (yes, that would make 3 new novels written in a year)
     
111. Learn to say: "That's not an iguana! You dummy, you shot a coconut!" in 20 languages by Christmas.
112. Forgive the last few people I've had a really hard time forgiving
113. See the Atlantic Ocean again
114. See the Pacific Ocean again
115. Visit old friends & hang outs in Austin, Texas
116. Blow up something
117. Show some amateurs how you really build a bonfire
118. Make my first mini-film
119. Be somewhere interesting on New Year's Eve
120. Open myself back up to take a chance dating or opening up to someone new
121. Heal
122. Build my Master Dayton blog to 100 search engine visitors/day
123. See if I can actually get someone to call me Master Dayton. So far I've been laughed at a lot. I'm just saying if Ph.D's are doctors, shouldn't MFA's be masters?
124. Go back to blowing past and destroying limits imposed on me instead of being held down by them.
125. Take the time to take advantage of the random opportunities life throws at me
     
126. Look back at 2010 and be completely and utterly amazed at the goodness and awesomeness of it all.

So that's it for now. There are 126 goals or whatever else you want to call them for 2010. It's a long list, but there are a lot of days in a year and in the end there is little worse (and more depressing) than a dull and boring life.

Thanks for reading, all, and hope you're having a good one.