The Life Goals List:

Finances / Achievements:

  • Get Married

  • Start a Family

  • 6 Months’ Income Saved

  • Credit Card Debt-Free

  • Start a “Passion Project”

  • Build Multiple Streams of Income

  • 1 Month’s Expenses Saved

  • Have a Financed IRA

  • Maintain Min/Max Level of Desired Income

  • Become a Certified Wilderness First Responder

  • Graduate College (Graduated from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and a Minor in Communication Studies)

  • Bench 225, Squat 315, Deadlift 405

  • Run a 5k in Less than 25 Minutes

  • Run a 10k (Crescent City Classic in New Orleans)

Business:

  • Reach 200 Active Members in my BJJ Gym

  • Open a Martial Arts Gym (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & MMA)

  • Hire a Subcontractor

  • Become CFO to an Over 1 Million Dollar a Year Business

  • Reach the Point of YouTube Channel Monetization

  • Reach and Maintain Revenue Goal

  • Start a Remote, Location-Independent Business

  • Join Local Chamber of Commerce and BNI Organization, Present Speeches in Both. (Lunch n Learn Host for Chamber of Commerce and Provided 15 minute Presentation During BNI Meeting

  • Create an Online Course

  • Become My Own Boss

Traveling:

  • Travel To All 50 States (49/50)

  • Travel To All Seven Continents (4/7)

  • Drive The Dempster Highway to the Arctic Ocean

  • Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway

  • Ride The West Highland Line in Scotland

  • Live in Another Country For at Least a Month (Lived in Brazil for 6 Weeks)

  • Drive The Trail Ridge Road in Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu:

  • Earn a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt (Current: Purple Belt)

  • Train Jiu Jitsu in 25 Different States (21/25)

  • Train Jiu Jitsu in 25 Different Countries (10/25)

  • Organize & Lead a Traveling Jiu-Jitsu Trip for Members in my Gym

  • Train Jiu Jitsu in Brazil (Completed During 6-week Trip in Florianopolis 2020, Trained at Gracie Barra Headquarters and Rolled with Carlos Gracie Jr.)

  • Attend a BJJ Globetrotters Camp

  • Compete in a Jiu Jitsu Competition (2022 in Maryland & 2023 in Denver)

Mountaineering:

  • Summit 30 Colorado 14ers (Mountains Over 14,000’) (8/30)

  • Climb Mount Katahdin, Maine

  • Complete the “3 Peaks Challenge” in Morocco in 3 days, Solo & Unguided

  • Climb Aconcagua, Chile

  • Climb Mount Kenya, Africa

  • Climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa

  • Climb Mount Rainier, Washington

  • Climb The Matterhorn, Switzerland/Italy

  • Summit Mt Fuji in Japan in 1 Day Solo & Unguided

  • Summit Mount Cayambe (19,000’), Ecuador

  • Summit the World’s Highest Mountain: Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador (21,500 feet)

  • Climb a Colorado 14er in the Middle of Winter

  • Climb Mt Whitney (14,500’), California (Crampon Sumitted via Winter Route)

  • Climb the Highest Point in Arizona, 12,633’ Humphreys Peak

  • Use Crampons to Summit a Volcano in Oregon or Washington (Crampon Summited Volcanoes: Mt Bachelor, South Sister & Mount Adams in Oregon & Washington)

Backpacking/Trekking:

  • Trek Across the 43-mile Nakahechi Pilgrimage Route in Japan in 3 days Solo & Unguided

  • Trek the 50-mile Markha Valley Trek in India Solo & Self-Supported in 4 Days

  • Complete the 50-mile Ganden to Samye Trek in Tibet Solo & Self-Supported in 4 Days

  • Walk the 30-mile Choquequirao Trek in Peru Solo & Self-Supported in 3 Days

  • Cross South Georgia, Antarctica using Ernest Shackleton Route

  • Walk the 26-mile Dana to Petra section of The Jordan Trail in Jordan Unguided & Self-Supported in 2 Days

  • Trek The Overland Track in Australia Unguided & Self-Supported in 5 Days

  • Go on a Solo, Off-Trail Multi-Day Backpacking Trip in the Wilderness

  • Travel by Foot Across an Entire Country (Walked through the country of Liechtenstein in 3 Days via The Liechtenstein Trail)

  • Complete a Thru-Hike of the 30-mile Art Loeb Trail in Asheville, NC in 3 Days

  • Backpack The Pemigewasset Loop, New Hampshire

  • Complete The Lost Creek Wilderness Loop in Colorado in 3 Days

  • Walk the 96-Mile West Highland Way in Scotland Solo & Unassisted in 5 Days

  • Walk The Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim (& Back)

To Experience / Explore:

  • Attend a Muay Thai Fight in Thailand

  • Explore the Depths of the Amazon Rainforest

  • Train Muy Thai in Thailand

  • Wrestle in Russia

  • See the Northern Lights

  • Land on Water in a Seaplane

  • Reach Both the Highest and Lowest Points on Earth

  • Sauna & Ice Bath in Iceland

  • Train Jiu Jitsu in the largest MMA gym in the world (Mjölnir MMA in Reykjavik, Iceland)

  • Attend a UFC PPV Event

  • Drink a Beer (Or Whiskey) in a Scotland Pub

  • Have a Street Taco in Mexico (Completed in Mexico City, 2023)

  • Try New England Clam Chowder

  • Have BBQ in St Louis

  • Boil a Lobster in Maine

  • Try Deep-Dish Pizza in Chicago

  • Catch, Fillet, Cook & Eat a Trout in Colorado

  • Crawfish Boil in Louisianna

  • Search for & Buy Ingredients in Pike Place Market in Seattle to Cook Lunch or Dinner

  • See Metallica Live (Completed Pittsburgh 2022)

  • Watch a Live Show at a Blues Bar in Mississippi (Blue Front Cafe, Bentonia, MS, 2022)

  • See a Las Vegas Show (Blue Man Group, 2021)

  • Scuba Dive (Completed in Puerto Rico 2023)

  • Walk on Broadway in Nashville

  • Ride on a local “Chicken Bus” in Central America

  • Listen to Jazz in French Quarter, Louisiana (also ran in Crescent City Classic 10k event)

  • Sleep in a Co-Ed Hostel Dorm

  • Witness a No-Light Pollution Night Sky (Many Times, Notable Nights are Backpacking in New Hampshire, Colorado, Arizona & Hawaii)

  • Explore The Colorado River

  • Explore The Mississippi River

  • Explore The Rhine River

  • Go on a “Bikepacking” Trip (San Juan Island, Washington)

  • Go Backpacking Somewhere in Nevada and then go and Stay in a Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip

  • Go Snowshoeing

  • Visit All Five Great Lakes

  • Visit Glacier National Park

  • Hike in The Grand Tetons (Backpacked Two Nights)

  • Visit The Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

  • Visit Niagra Falls

  • Participate in a Mosh Pit

  • Attend a Music Festival

  • Explore some Pablo Escobar Spots in Medellin, Colombia

  • Visit The Grand Canyon

  • Visit Mount Rushmore

  • See Old Faithful Erupt in Yellowstone

  • See an Active Volcano Eruption at Night (Kilauea Volcano on Big Island, Hawaii at 4AM, 2023)

  • Go Deep Sea Fishing (Massachusetts)

  • Catch a Fish through Ice on Top of a Frozen Lake (Dowdy Lake, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, 2019)

  • Build a CamperVan and Move into it (Lived in Van and Traveled Full-Time around United States for Two Years, 2021 & 2022)

Animals To See in the Wild

  • Camel

  • Elephant

  • Gorilla

  • Jellyfish

  • Kangaroo

  • Komodo Dragon

  • Lion

  • Octopus

  • Orangutan

  • Panda Bear

  • Grizzly Bear

  • Polar Bear

  • Parrot

  • Tarantula

  • Penguin

  • Rhino

  • Tiger

  • Zebra

  • Hear a Howler Monkey

  • Crocodile

  • Sea Turtle

  • Bison

  • Bald Eagle

  • Red Deer Stag Buck

  • Alligator

  • Monkey

  • Shark (saw a Hammerhead)

  • Wolf

  • Dolphins

  • Big Horn Sheep

  • Mountain Goat

  • Moose (way too close many times while hiking including a Bull Moose during rut)

  • Iguana

  • Tucan 

  • Black Bear (Seen a few times up close while hiking)

  • Bull Elk during rut

Skills:

  • Coffee: At-home Coffee Bean Grinding and Pour-Over Technique. Also Learn about the Basics of how it is Harvested, Roasted, and Traded around the World as well as it’s Origins in the World’s Different Regions

  • Writing

  • Accounting

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Jiu Jitsu

  • Personal Finance

  • Philosophy / Psychology

  • Health & Fitness

  • Goal Setting, Planning, & Strategizing

  • Hiking, Backpacking, & Mountaineering

  • Traveling

  • Video Production & Editing

  • Video Gaming

  • WWII History

  • Guitar

  • Wilderness Medicine

  • Landscape Photography

  • Fishing

  • Learn the Basics of Indoor Climbing

Read Philosophy/Psychology Books:

  • Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle

  • The White Pill

  • Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

  • Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

  • For the New Intellectual

  • The Romantic Manifesto

  • The Voice of Reason

  • Understanding Objectivism

  • Rationality

  • Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand

  • The Virtue of Selfishness

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • The Stranger

  • The Essential Enneagram

  • The Alchemist

  • Meditations

  • Walden

  • The Old Man and the Sea

  • Epicurus and the Pleasant Life

  • The Happiness Hypothesis

  • Essentialism

  • The Art of War

  • The Book of Five Rings

  • A New Stoicism

  • The Ethics of Ambiguity

  • The Existentialist’s Survival Guide

  • Secrets of Simplicity

  • Liberty Defined

  • Stillness is the Key

  • Man’s Search for Meaning

  • The Power of Meaning

  • The Four Agreements

  • The Stoic Challenge

  • The Happiness of Pursuit

  • The Art of Non-Conformity

  • The Power of Now

  • How to Change the Way You Think

  • Nature

  • The Vagabond’s Way

  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

  • Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

  • Courage is Calling

  • Discipline is Destiny

  • Lives of the Stoics

  • Living for Pleasure: an Epicurean Guide to Life

  • The Principle Doctrines of Epicurus

  • On the Nature of Things

  • Scarcity Brain

  • The Comfort Crisis

  • Dopamine Nation

  • Self-Reliance

  • How to Be an Existentialist

Read Business, Leadership, & Self-Improvement Books

  • Steve Jobs

  • Why Businessmen Need Philosophy

  • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

  • Free Market Revolution

  • Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

  • Elon Musk

  • Deep Work

  • Slow Productivity

  • Digital Minimalism

  • The War of Art

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • Think and Grow Rich

  • Can’t Hurt Me

  • Never Finished

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

  • Principles

  • The Freelancer’s Bible

  • Profit First

  • E-Myth

  • Tribe of Mentors

  • The $100 Startup

  • How To Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital

  • Traction

  • Company of One

  • Essentialism

  • This is Marketing

  • The Dip

  • When to Quit and When to Stick

  • The 4 Hour Workweek

  • How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • Extreme Ownership

  • Atomic Habits

History:

  • Visit Omaha Beach (D-Day), Normandy, France

  • Visit Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Kehlsteinhaus), Germany

  • Visit The Auschwitz State Museum, Poland

  • Visit The Cabinet War Rooms, London

  • Visit Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site, China

  • Visit The Pyramids in Egypt

  • Read War and Peace

  • Read The Wolf Hall Full Trilogy

  • Read all 13 Books in Bernard Cornwell’s “Saxon Series” (13/13)

  • Visit The Louvre in Paris

  • Read “Gates of Fire”

  • Read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”

  • Read “Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind”

  • Read “Empire of a Summer Moon”

  • Read “The Splendid and the Vile”

  • Read “Ghengis Khan, The Making of the Modern World”

  • Read “Hero of the Empire”

  • Read “The Ghost Ships of Archangel”

  • Read “The Devil in the White City”

  • Read “A Brief History of Earth”

Family:

  • Go on a Trip with my Brother

  • Take my Nephew(s) on an International Trip

  • Go on a Trip with my Mom

  • Go on a Trip with my Sister

  • Go on a Trip with my Dad

  • Take my Nephew(s) Camping

  • Adopt a Dog

  • Maintain Annual Tradition of Trout Camp Parties at Family Cabin in Pennsylvania

Arts & Leisure:

Coffee:

  • Drink Coffee in a Vienna Coffee Shop

  • Drink Coffee in a Rome Coffee Shop

  • Drink Coffee in a Melbourne coffee shop

  • Drink Coffee in a London Coffee Shop

  • Purchase Single-Origin Coffee Beans from 20 Different Countries and Prepare at Home (20/20)

  • Drink Coffee in a Reykjavik Coffee Shop (Americano)

  • Drink Coffee in a French Café (Espresso)

  • Drink Coffee in a Japanese Garden (Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden)

  • Visit a Coffee Farm (Visited Single-Family Coffee Farm in Guatemala)

  • Drink Coffee in Colombia

  • Drink coffee in Brazil

  • Drink coffee in Seattle (Original Starbucks)

  • Drink Kona Coffee in Hawaii

Read Non-Fiction Adventure Books:

  • “In the Heart of the Sea”

  • “Into the Wild”

  • “Arabian Sands”

  • “The Worst Journey in the World”

  • “The Lost City of Z”

  • “Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook”

  • “The Perfect Storm”

  • “River of Darkness”

  • “Over the Edge of the World”

  • “In Harm’s Way”

  • “Wanderlust: an Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age”

  • “Into Africa”

  • “Into Thin Air”

  • “Endurance”

  • “Touching the Void”

  • “Alive”

  • “To Shake the Sleeping Self”

  • “Dead Mountain”

  • “Annapurna”

  • “The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter”

  • “The River of Doubt”

  • “No Picnic on Mount Kenya”

  • “The Crystal Horizon”

  • “Mother of God”

  • “River of the Gods”

Read Literature:

  • Anthem

  • We the Living

  • Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

  • Atlas Shrugged

  • The Fountainhead

  • Read “Musashi”

  • Read “The Odyssey” by Homer

  • Read “Beneath a Scarlett Sky”

  • The Monkey Wrench Gang

Video Games:

  • Complete Indian Jones, The Great Circle

  • Complete all 3 Mass Effects

  • Complete The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

  • CompleteThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

  • Beat “Shadow of the Erdtree” Elden Ring DLC

  • Complete Starfield

  • Beat Elden Ring w/ no Respecs

  • Complete the Red Dead Redemption 2 Main Story

  • Complete The Witcher 3 and all DLCs

  • Complete Fallout 4 and all DLCs

  • Complete Bioshock

  • Complete Skyrim

  • Complete Cyberpunk 2077