If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals. –Lou Holtz
Life Goals: My “101 Lifetime Goals” list (and why you should have one, too)
Experts on the science of success know that the brain is a goal-seeking organism. Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve it.
However, one goal isn’t good enough. Some goals take longer to achieve than others – and if you spend years working toward only one objective, you’re likely to get discouraged when it doesn’t happen right away.
But when you have a long list of goals you’d like to achieve, you have more to strive for, and more opportunities to check those goals off your list. And the rush you feel every time you check one of those goals off the list will inspire you to accomplish even more of them!
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Make a list of 101 goals you’d like to achieve in your life. Be as specific as possible. Include details such as when they will happen, where they will happen, how much you’ll make, what model you’ll buy, what size it will be, and so on.
Keep your goals somewhere you can review them often. You might want to put them on a deck of 3”x5” cards you shuffle through every morning, on a poster or piece of paper you hang on the wall beside your computer, or in a book you read each night before you fall asleep. By keeping them top of mind, you’ll be more likely to make them a reality.
And every time you achieve one of your goals, check it off the list and celebrate what you’ve managed to accomplish in your life!
Here’s my list – and the goals I’ve achieved so far are in bold font.
For inspiration, check out the list of goals that I committed to achieving before I die:
Travel
I will travel to the following places:
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Rome, Italy
- Paris, France
- London, England
- New Zealand
- India
- Bali
- Tahiti
- Nepal
- Tibet
- Turkey
- Africa (Morocco and Cameroon so far)
- Israel
- Russia
- Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia
- Vacation on a Greek Isle
(I have now traveled to more than fifty countries, and conducted seminars or given speeches in forty-seven of them.)
I will visit and see the following sights:
- Disneyworld
- Epcott Center
- The Eiffel Tower
- The Vatican
- The Great Wall of China
- The Taj Mahal
- The Great Pyramids
- Machu Pichu
- The Terracotta Soldiers of Xian, China
Adventure
I will:
- Go fishing in the Northwest Territories
- Climb on a glacier in Alaska
- Go on a safari in Africa
- Become a certified scuba diver
- Snorkel in Hawaii
- Learn to sail
- Skydive
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Go on a river-rafting trip
- Go kayaking
- Attend Vic Braden’s tennis camp (Deleted due to ruptured disc)
- Fly in a glider
- Dive in a submarine
- Learn to windsurf
- Learn to ski
- Ski black diamond level (Deleted due to ruptured disc)
- Ski Vail, Aspen, Beaver Creek, Sun Valley & Jackson Hole
- Ski in Europe (Deleted due to ruptured disc)
- Explore all five of Hawaii’s islands
- Swim with the dolphins
- Go to the Super Bowl
- Go to the Rose Bowl
- Go to the Final Four College Basketball Championships
- Go to the Olympics
- Take one of my sons to the Olympics
Personal Achievements
- Appear on the Phil Donahue Show (deleted because it is no longer airing, but I have appeared on the Larry King Show, Fox and Friends, The Today Show and Good Morning America, as well as more than 100 other television shows and more than 700 radio shows)
- Appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show (I also appeared on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday this past year.)
- Write a best selling book (sixty-one best-sellers so far)
- Make one million dollars in one year ($20 million best year so far, plus $20 million one year when we sold one of my companies)
- Golf eighteen holes under ninety (Deleted due to ruptured disc)
- Run a 10k race
- Run fourteen miles in less than three hours
- Meet a U.S. president while he/she is still in office (I had lunch at the White House but President Bush was traveling in Texas; I also met Bill Clinton but after he left office.)
- Build or buy my dream house
- Own a vacation home in Hawaii
- Own my own pool table
- Assemble a good art collection
- Own a Mercedes or Lexus (I have owned six Lexus cars so far)
- Speak in thirty or more countries (forty-seven so far)
- Give a university commencement address (three so far)
- Attend my fiftieth Harvard reunion in 2016
- Publish 100 books (225 so far)
- Speak at the Million Dollar Roundtable
- Produce a TV infomercial
- Write a children’s book
- Complete NLP training
- Produce a PBS program
- See my sons Christopher, Oran and Kyle graduate college (No longer important – they took alternative education paths, although Christopher, now age twenty-six, was just accepted into the degree program at the Berklee College of Music in Boston)
- Have $3,000,000 net worth when I retire (I have much more than that already)
- Sell $20,000 worth of books and tapes at a live event in one day (I have sold $160,000 in one day)
- Have 1,000,000 people graduate from the GOALS Program (Over 600,000 so far)
- Have 500,000 people graduate from the STAR Program
- Sell 1,000,000,000 books (500 million so far)
- Sell 1,000,000 audio albums
- Learn to speak Spanish fluently
- Appear in a movie (The Secret, 2006; The Opus, 2009; The Tapping Solution, 2009; Beyond Belief, 2009; The Truth, 2010; The Gift, 2010; The Keeper of the Keys, 2012).
- Learn to paint with oils
- Publish a poem
- Master five magic tricks
- Learn to sing and play 10 popular songs on the guitar
- Give a speech or conduct a seminar in all fifty states
- Appear on the cover of a magazine (over twenty so far)
- Get paid $10,000 for a single talk ($70,000 highest fee to date for a single talk)
- Keynote an NSA conference
- Win over a $1000 in a casino ($3000 at the New Orleans Hilton Casino)
- Give a talk to an audience of 10,000 people (12,000 people the largest so far)
- See one of my books piled high in the window of a bookstore
- Learn how to take world-class photographs (I just bought a Canon Mark III D5 Camera.)
- Type fifty words a minute
- Weigh 175 pounds (I’ve lost as much as 35 pounds and gotten down to as low as 185)
- Bench press 200 pounds
- Run a mile under six minutes (Deleted due to ruptured disc)
- Do a fire-walk
- Have a personal gym in my home
- Conduct a training for a professional athletic team
- Write a book for couples with my wife
- Write a book for teenagers
- Write a children’s book
- Have a syndicated newspaper column
- Take more guitar lessons
- Have an incredible fiftieth birthday party
- Convene Two Beautiful People Conferences (TLC)
- Meet the Following People:
- Garth Brooks
- Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton
Jimmy Carter - The Dalai Lama
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- George Lucas
- Kenny Rogers
- Attend the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee
In 2006, I added the following goals to my list:
- Attend the National Championship College Football Game
- Attend the Country Music Awards
- Take the Landmark Forum Training
- Create a dynamic coaching and training community with 500 or more members
- Sell one billion books by the year 2020 (500 million so far)
- Visit Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Attend the Oscar Awards ceremony
- Attend the Radio Music Awards in Los Vegas, Nevada
- Retire with a $30 million net worth
- Live to be 100+ years old
- Receive the CPAE designation from the National Speakers Association **
- Create a curriculum guide for a college course based on The Success Principles
- Create a high school curriculum guide based on The Success Principles
- Create a Curriculum Guide for teachers based on the Chicken Soup for the Soul stories
- Visit Japan
- Visit the Achawara tribe and work with a shaman in the rain forest with Lynn Twist
- Learn to play “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Bach on the piano
- Take a formal training in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) (I’ve even written a book on it.)
- Develop a leadership training
- Go to Dubai
- Obtain a $1,000,000 advance for a book (The 30-Day Sobriety Solution)
I wrote this list back in 1989 at the age of forty-five – and I’m proud to say that I’ve crossed more than a few goals off the list – eighty to be exact!
Once you’ve completed your list, please share some of your own goals in the comments below.
I’d love to read them!
As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre—and watched it grow to a billion dollar market. As the driving force behind the development and delivery of over 100 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul® franchise, Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success. Jack is America’s #1 Success Coach and wrote the life-changing book The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be and Jack speaks around the world on this subject. Check out his newest book The 30-Day Sobriety Solution: How to Cut Back or Quit Drinking in the Privacy of Your Own Home. Follow Jack at www.jackcanfield.com and sign up for his free resources today!
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