Day 5 of the altMBA

July 7, 2015

I finished my list of dreams 48 hours ago, and it’s time for time for me to evaluate whether or not the goals can answer these questions posed by Zig Ziglar:

Can I answer yes to all of these questions about my dream:

Is it my goal or someone else’s?

Is it morally right and fair to everyone concerned?

Is it consistent with my other goals?

Can I emotionally commit myself to finish this goal?

Can I see “myself” finishing this goal?

If I can’t answer yes to all of those I will put an X next to the Idea.

After processing that info  I will ask the next series of questions and have to answer “yes” to at least one of them.

Will this goal:

Make me happier?

Make me healthier?

Make me more prosperous?

Win more friends?

Give me peace of mind?

Make me more secure?

Improve my relationships with others?

I will put another an ”*” next to any of the goals that need to be removed using this questioning.

Here is the list of dreams I am working (Some personal goals have been left out):

Personal

• Get my motorcycle license

• get a motorcycle

• Start rock climbing regularly

• Live in Alaska

• Get a diving certification

• Go cliff jumping

• Go Sky Diving

• Write a book

• Post weekly to my blog

• Start a YouTube channel about something that I am passionate about

• Take a professional driving course

• Learn to site read piano

• Get my small planes pilot’s license

• Get my Network + certification

• Get my Real Estate Brokerage license

• Play music in a band

• Rebuild an engine

• run a small group for people

• Own and operate small farm

• Spend a brief season as a flight attendant

• Travel to 3 new countries every year

• Meet with people and help them make positive changes in their life

• Purchase a real estate property and manage it while paying it off

• Hike the Pacific Crest Trail

Family

• Spend one meal per week with my family

• Say one word of encouragement to each family member every week

• Take one family member out for coffee once every month

• Host an annual goal setting workshop for my family, and then have planned bi-annually check-ins

• Go on at least one family camping trip per year

• Go on a family hike every month

• Find out when my family member is having a concert or event and show up

• Write an our of the blue letter for no reason and send give it to them

• Plan one snowboarding trip for the winter

• Start a family game night: Possibly on the same night as dinner?

• Schedule time for one home improvement project

• Be intentional about being thankful for them at least once a day

• Go to a concert as a family

• Find a conference that we could all go to that would empower us to live better lives.

Career

• Help make improvements for the company I work at

• Start expanding my side business to other states

• Develop a valuable process that acts as a way for businesses to take themselves to the next level, and the use the process with the coaches that are apart of the organization

• Build a team of people who like to work on challenging problems

• Sell something passively on Amazon

• Invent a product that I would use regularly

• Invest in a small company

• Run a moderately successful website with more than 1000 hits per day

• Develop a downtown office space and bring in great companies to work together under the same roof

• Create a business model that people want to steal

• Buy  a car wash

• Own real estate that I rent out

• Develop an App that solves a problem I have regularly

• Always ship a day early.

• Pay my employees health insurance and for life building exercises that will help them become stronger people

• Donate to young entrepreneurs that work for the good of impoverished people

• Help develop companies into platforms that people would have a difficult time replacing

• Have a weekly corporate meeting with myself.

Physical

• Go to the gym early in the morning everyday

• double my weight lifting in a month

• Run a marathon

• Take swimming lessons(Yeah I really can’t swim very well)

• Go through Tim Ferris’s The Four Hour Body

• Run 1 mile every morning

• Do the incline once a week

• Do more than 100 pushups at a time

• Get weights and lift every day

• Take tennis lessons

• Join Parks and Rec soccer

• Climb Mount Everest

• Climb al CO. 14ers

• Build and keep a 6 pack

• Consume 2 home cooked healthy meals every day.

• Expand the flexing diameter of my biceps and forearms by 50%

• Do a quick morning workout every day I can’t make it to the gym

• Take boxing lessons

• Race downhill mountain bikes and win a small competition

• Land a steezy kickflip 95% of the time a try

• Learn how to do hand stand pushups

• Land backflips on a trampoline

• Land a 360 method

• Lear how to do wheelies on a dirt bike

• Run the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb

Mental

• Smile most of the day

• Wake up excited for what I’m about to do

• Read 100 books everyday

• Improve my typing by 30 WPM bringing my average to 97 WPM

• Improve my handwriting by learning and implementing a new style

• Become proficient in CSS/HTML

• Take drawing classes and draw a self portrait

• Finish my sketch of Dani

• Write a song w/ lyrics for the guitar and perform

• Study american history and become familiar

• Learn to speak french sufficiently

• Take an english class in college

• Read newtons physics and understand basics

• Learn all scales on guitar

• learn how to use electric instrument software

• Remix a Harry Nilson song

• Multiply two 6 digit numbers in my head in under 2 minutes

• Take a concealed Carry class and get my permit

• Finish my network and A + certifications

• Read Yves recommendation for real estate knowledge

• Learn C+ and build a basic program

• Take an Archery Course

• Get my WFR Cert

• Take a culinary Course

Spiritual

• Actively attend and stay involved in a church

• Tithe every week

• Go on a mission trip to another country

• Pray every day

• Take a prayer hike every month

• Join an online bible study

• Take time out of each day to be emotionally thankful for all that I have

• Give away one belonging every week

• Write a letter and leave it in the mail room with words of encouragement that people could pick up and be inspired by

• Give $1000 every year to a new charity

• Lead a youth group

• Lead worship 1 or 2 Sundays every month

• Read the Bible cover to cover

Financial

• Own a car 2006 or newer with 4 wheel drive

• Increase my monthly income 3 times by December 2015

• Build a my mutual fund portfolio to $10,000

• Pay a finance consultant to help me build a financial plan

• Own a duplex and rent out one half of it

• Invest in a startup

• Build an investment portfolio that will allow me to be free to do live giving things throughout the year

• Own a vacation home in Tuscany

• Own a coffee shop that I can work in

• Generate $2000 passively each month

• Help give my parents a great retirement

• Build a five year investment plan

I am now working through my original questions on all of these goals and I will come back with another post on my findings