Hopes and Aspirations
Things that should, and will, happen some time in no particular order.
- Live in New York for at least a year
- Learn to play the guitar (acoustic)
- Get a straight blade shave from an Old English barbershop
- ✔ Live or study abroad
- ✔ Graduate business school
- Hike the West Coast Trail
- Get an apartment I love
- ✔ Explore London
- Cross-country road trip
- Wear a top hat
- Give a TED talk
- Sign a big cheque
- Find a cool girl *
- Get a consulting job
- Get an MBA
- ✔ Continue blogging regularly
- Spend a week in Vegas with no accommodations booked
- Take in an art show
- Surf in Hawaii
- Greece
- Write a column in a newspaper
- ✔ Bike everywhere (in Copenhagen)
- Show up at the airport and buy a ticket for the next flight that day
- East Coast Road Trip
- Experience St. Patrick’s Day – in Ireland
- ✔ Visit Rome and the Vatican
- ✔ Visit Berlin
- Crash a wedding
- Write a book
- Have a whiteboard wall in my house
- ✔ Eat pierogies in Poland
- Buy my parents an adventure
- Go to Hong Kong again
- Visit Lappland, Sweden – and stay at the ICE Hotel
- Experience the northern lights
- Go to Australia again
- Ride an elephant
- Japan
- ✔ Experience Oktoberfest in Munich
- Experience Oktoberfest in Munich (again)
- ✔ Go to an Olympic Games on home soil
- Go to an Olympic Games abroad
- Be a mentor to someone
- Give back to Gustavson
- ✔ Pilots license
- ✔ Conquer Europe
- Own at least two homes – one of which I designed
- Blow a couple of minds
- ✔ Go to Russia
- Leave the world a better place than when I found it

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