My Life List

In 2010 I sat down and wrote my first “life list”. Some call it a “bucket list”… I call it a life list because it lists out things I want to do while I’m full of life. My first shot at making my life list in 2010 got me through #60 on this list. Then I put the piece of paper away… found it a couple years later and added up to #73. Then in September 2015 I added up to #89. Up to now it was all on a ratty old crumpled piece of paper… until my buddy Sean Ogle inspired me to put it online. So voila, here we are.

So this list is a living breathing work. As I nail things I’ll cross them off and celebrate! And as I want to add new things I’ll drop them on the list here. If you don’t have a life list go out and create one! No matter how simple it is, just sit down and write down some of the things you want to… do, experience, feel, achieve… places you want to visit… impacts you want to make… and even stupid little trivial things that you think would be pretty darn cool to do in your life. Have fun with it and put out your intention to live an amazing life.

Enjoy!

Master Spanish & have a full conversation with a native Spanish speaker
Build a business worth $100M (never thought I’d get here, but halfway there!)
~~Start a scholarship at my almamater (OIT)~~ – Started two in 2011!
Learn to play guitar – Started, but still long way to go!
Finish a triathalon
Volunteer after a disaster
~~Skydive over a tropical ocean~~ – Been there done that! March 2011!
Hang out w/ Richard Branson on Neckar Island
Take a full day Kayak trip
Catch a steelhead on a fly rod
Take 3 weeks off, no phone, no computer, no watch – Took 4 weeks off July 2016. But did have my phone
~~Get 100,000 views on YouTube~~
Master a surprising cocktail
Watch the Masters live
Shoot even par on a round – Haha, second guessing this one. My game is going backwards!
Go to New Zealand
Travel Europe for a month… twice
Raise $1,000,000 for an amazing charity
Teach a college class – Doing Spring / Fall 2016 at OIT
Create my own wine with grapes I grew myself
Bike the entire North Umpqua Trail in one trip
Take McKinley to Mt. McKinley (damn! Obama changed the name of the mountain :-/)
Learn photography and win an award with a picture I took
Be published in Entrepreneur Magazine
Create an awesome “Entrepreneur Mastermind” house in a tropical location we host entrepreneurs at
Help my parents retire
Golf the top 5 courses in the world w/ some great friends
Spontaneously jam w/ a band in a pub
Hold a charity golf tourney that raises ~~$10k~~ $30,000 (aimed too small – thanks RJ!)
Help another person achieve their dream to tick something off their bucket list every month of a year
Own an awesome rare classic car, drive for a couple years and sell it at an auction for a profit
Visit all 50 states in the U.S. – 26 so far
Help 5 friends and family start a cool business OR quit their day job – 2 so far!
Take a 4 week road trip across the U.S. to watch baseball games at Fenway, Wrigley, NY, and others along the way
Write a book that goes to #1 on Amazon and makes the NYT best sellers list
Read the entire Bible
Start a business incubator for young entrepreneurs that creates 10 $1mm+/yr companies in 10 years.
Take a spontaneous roadtrip to another state w/ Carly and the kids w/ absolutely no plans
Learn to ballroom dance
Fly in a fighter jet w/ my dad
Raft the Rogue River
Mentor a teen who has a huge gift to give to the world but doesn’t have the confidence to do it
Wake up before 6am 30 days in a row – Did 25 in 30 days May 2016. Gonna nail it this year
Be quoted or interviewed on national TV
~~Own a house on a lake or a river~~ – Bam! Moved into our river house on 3 acres June 2016
~~Get in the best shape of my life by~~ 27 29 31 34 Nailed it at 35!!!!
Scuba dive on a kick ass reef
Hit a hole in one
Go to Oktoberfest in Munich
Attend the winter olympics
Surf a full wave
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Catch a Salmon in Alaska
Invest in a company that grows to $200mm in value
Build my and Carly’s dream home
Get 10,000 YouTube subscribers
Present at T.E.D.
Walk the Great Wall of China
Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary
Move people enough with a talk to receive a standing ovation
Really own who I am
Read 24 books in a year
~~Build enough value to charge $10,000 for a day’s worth of consulting~~ – $12k for a day on a big project in 2016
Have 50,000 users of a software of ours
Have my entrepreneur organization work w/ Richard Branson or Mark Cuban on a project
Make lifelong friends w/ someone from another country
Help create a school of entrepreneurship at a college
White or do 30 videos / articles in 30 days
Pioneer a new strategy or trend that makes a massive impact
Organize / participate in a nationwide / statewide scavenger hunt
~~Be 100% clear on how I am and BE that person the rest of my life~~ – ALWAYS WORKING ON THIS THOUGH!
Take an entire year off of everyday work
~~Hit the Inc 500/5000 list~~ YES! Hit #699 in 2018 + 2019 (fastest growing software company in Oregon 2x)
~~Buy and renovate a historical building~~ YES! Bought 1888 historical building and renovating!
~~Speak my message in front of 1,000 people~~ BAM! At WELive in Dallas 2019 – 1,200 (Gary V spoke right before me! haha, I can always say Gary V opened for me 😉
Start a quarterly adventure with each of my children w/ just me and them that lasts decades
~~$20M+ net worth by 40~~ (hit by 36 – on paper 😉
Have a grand child
Document the wisdom from my dad, Pa, Mom, and Danny Miles w/ video
Start and write a letter every year to each child & give as a gift at their wedding
Hold a bottle of wine for 15 years to drink on our 25th year anniversary
Live in another country for at least 6 months
Donate at least $1mm over my lifetime to charity – ( $750k In as of 2020)
Do a 100 mile bike trip
Help Carly live her dream
Write an autobiography worth telling / reading
Visit Greece and Mykonos
Start a company with my dad
Fly my entire family in a private jet to an amazing location somewhere in the world (parents, brothers and their families, my family)
Visit Yellowstone and Yosemite in the same year
Solve the rubix cube