Josiah Mackenzie

July 9, 2006 - These are the things I plan accomplish during my lifetime. I have roughly arranged the goals within each list in chronological order. Goals at the beginning of the list I’ll most likely accomplish first.

5 Biggest Life Goals

• Build a company to $1,000,000 in annual sales
• Win an ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award
• Lead a microfinance organization to reduce poverty
• Visit 100 countries (11 as of June 2007)
• Look at the world from outer space

Financial

(Income, savings, investing, debt reduction, etc)

• Graduate from college debt-free
• Purchase a home
• Own a rental property
• License a brand or product (accomplished June 30, 2007)
• Earn $100,000 from business ventures in less than one year
• Have a personal net worth of $1,000,000
• Build an investment portfolio yielding $50,000+ in passive income annually

Business

(Products, sales, or new ventures)

• Form or join a mastermind group
• Find a mentor and meet with him regularly (accomplished January 2008)
• Be featured in my campus newspaper (accomplished December 2006)
• Participate in Toastmasters for 3 months
• Write and publish a book
• Become a licensed real estate agent
• Hire a personal assistant (accomplished June 30, 2007)
• Hire a full-time employee
• Own a coffee/tea shop
• Own a restaurant
• Own a youth hostel
• Start or buy a record label
• Own a venture capital firm
• Buy a business
• Sell a business (accomplished June 20, 2007)
• Win Entrepreneur of the Year award
• Have a regular column in a magazine or newspaper
• Be featured in one of the top 3 US newspapers (eg, USA Today)
• Be featured in an entrepreneur/small business magazine
• Be featured on a major TV channel (eg, ABC)
• Do a live TV interview (eg, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch)
• Own or license a clothing company
• Own a luxury car dealership or rental

Adventure

(Relaxation and vacations)

• Fly over New York City in a helicopter
• Fly a powered parachute
• Fly in a glider
• Fly in an open cockpit (bi)plane
• Go white-water rafting
• Make a parachute jump
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• Snowboard in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains
• Ski in Scandinavia (accomplished in Finland’s Kauppi Region, February 17, 2007)
• Ski in the Swiss Alps
• Attend Trance Energy in the Netherlands (accomplished March 3, 2007)
• Taste wine in a French vineyard (accomplished April 20, 2007)
• Shop along Champs-Elysees in Paris (accomplished April 19, 2007)
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• Spend St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin (accomplished March 17, 2007)
• Watch a Shakespeare play in the Globe Theatre
• Ride the Japanese bullet train
• Bicycle across Europe (Amsterdam to Gibraltar)
• Climb a mountain
• Attend a Finnish hockey game (accomplished February 18, 2007)
• Attend the Winter Olympics
• Attend a World Cup soccer game
• Live one year outside the US
• Drive a Ferrari or Lamborghini over 120mph
• Drive a German luxury car on the Autobahn
• Stay at the Ice Hotel in Sweden
• Stay at the Burj al-Arab in Dubai
• Travel around the world in a single trip, making at least 5 stops in 3 continents
• Safari into the Sahara desert
• Take the Trans-Siberian railway across Russia
• Go on an overnight yacht trip
• Fly in a fighter jet
• Participate in an Antarctic expedition
• Look at the world from outer space

Health & Fitness

(Physical challenges)

• Try a vegetarian diet for at least 3 months (accomplished November 21, 2007)
• Practice yoga every morning for a month (accomplished October 16, 2007)
• Complete a half-marathon (accomplished November 4, 2007)
• Complete a marathon (accomplished March 2, 2008)
• Complete a triathlon
• Participate in San Francisco’s Alcatraz Challenge
• Participate in the Boston Marathon

Personal

(Projects, purchases, or learning)

• Learn to play golf
• Take 3 months of martial arts training (accomplished December 12, 2006)
• Have a 15-minute conversation in German with a native speaker
• Have a 15-minute conversation in French with a native speaker
• Have a 15-minute conversation in Spanish with a native speaker
• Earn an MBA from a European school
• Play the saxophone
• Play the drums
• Take a gourmet cooking class
• Own a Porsche
• Own a home in Europe
• Own a Mediterranean villa with an ocean view

Contribution

(Giving back)

• Start an entrepreneurship scholarship
• Coach/mentor 5 people
• Adopt a child from a third-world country
• Spend at least 6 months volunteering for a charitable organization
• Buy my parents a *********** and ***********
• Start a charitable foundation
• Give away 5 million dollars