I’m a dreamer.
I believe in the importance of having your dreams always in front of you. I even created a dream wall in my office so I can see the dreams and vision for my life at a glance.
It’s great, but I never took the next step for that dream wall: writing down the goals I have to accomplish those dreams.
So much for taking my own advice.
I was reminded of the need to write my goals down after reading this post by Justin Wise. I figured I should do the same.
So I downloaded and fired up the Pomodoro app (another tip I got from Justin’s post), set it for 25 minutes (and went another 5 minutes over), and began writing down all the goals I have for my life – both long-term and short-term.
Here are my top 67 life goals (to be improved upon as I step into new seasons of life) in no particular order:
- Get married and start a family
- Write a book
- Fly in at least business class for 75% of my international flights
Start an Ignite group in Czech- Move to Europe
- Learn the Czech language
- Learn German
- Learn Russian
- Fully finance the drilling of at least 2 wells in third world countries (roughly $30,000)
- Start a ministry training school in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
- Start a branch of Ignite in Romania, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia
- Expand Ignite USA to at least 50 colleges
- Be able to license and ordain people into ministry
- Get licensed and ordained into ministry
- Produce an online course of some sort
- Develop a leadership coaching network
- Be self employed
- Bring in $20,000 a month in income
- Fully finance college funds for my future kids
- Start a college scholarship fund for Christian students who are passionate about transforming a college campus
- Purchase office space for Ignite
- Start a weekly podcast
- Develop high quality video teachings for Ignite
- Plant churches throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa
- Fully fund at least 2 missionaries
- Give a car away
- Give a house away
- Buy a 5 bedroom home with a huge kitchen, large back yard, finished basement with game room, with an apartment space off the garage to help house someone in need.
- Get out of debt completely (including mortgage)
- Pay cash for a brand new car
- Fly first class at least once on an international trip
- Empower 10 churches to reach their college campuses
- Speak at least two times a month, paid
- Work out 3 times a week
- Own a home in another country
- Hire 10 full time employees for Ignite
- Hire a maid and pay her double what she’s worth
- Plant a church in another country
- Build an outbuilding on my property for social events
- Purchase a building for Ignite that can be used as office space as well as a drinking-alternative social venue for college students / space for business-incubation / life skills and ministry training – in the States and in Europe
- Buy a new computer
- Purchase a whole new wardrobe
- Raise up children who will radically follow Christ and start ministries of their own
- Read at least 12 books each year for the rest of my life
- Earn my MBA
- Earn my Masters of Divinity
- Financially fund at least one college student’s future business plan
- Go on a vacation once a year to a place I’ve never been
- Develop a network of orphanages throughout Europe that not only houses children, but also provides them with a loving family, education, and helps them be successful in life
- Visit at least 20 different countries in my lifetime.
- Hike up to Macchu Picchu
- Have ministry plants in at least 50 different countries
- Camp out under the stars
- Live near some mountains
- Have enough income that my future wife won’t have to work unless she wants to
- Retire self employed with enough investments to continue doing ministry until I die
- Plant a garden
- Give away at least 20% of income every month
- Develop a product that launches a business
- Start a coffee shop that employs college students and teaches them how to run a business
- Build a leadership development course that can be implemented on college campuses to prepare students to be leaders in ministry and in business
- Learn to swim again
- Write a series of devotions / bible studies that helps people discover who they are in Christ
- Write an ebook about discovering and achieving your dream
- Generate multiple sources of revenue so I am not tied to one job as my means of support
- Find a mentor in ministry and in business
- Own at least 10 rental properties near college campuses
Like Justin, I didn’t share every goal I wrote down. Some of them you just don’t need to know about.
What’s one goal you can start today to bring you closer to your dream?