I recently read an article titled “If I only had 100 days to live.” I don’t really like to play that game as I plan to live to be over one hundred. But since I am, celebrating a birthday today and time continues to pass, it seems time to start on my list of 100 things I want to do by the time I turn 100 and 50 things by the time I turn 50. I started this list a few years ago and will put it here for the world to see. If you started a list, what would be on it? In no particular order, here are some of the things on my list:
1. Renew my wedding vows
2. Celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem
3. Learn to speak a 2nd language
4. Kite Surf
5. Give a piano concert
6. Become a gourmet chef
7. Set a World Record in something
8. Spend the night in castle
9. Go to the Paralympic games
10. Speak to a crowd of 25,000
11. Bike down Pikes Peak
12. Hike the entire Appalachian Trail
13. Ski by moonlight
14. Teach skiing to disabled young people
15. Write a fiction book
16. Start a camp called Dad Camp where fathers and sons can come to restore relationships
17. Live on an island
18. Go on a mission or work trip in a third world country with my kids
19. Host a murder mystery weekend
20. Have dinner at the Whitehouse with the president (whether it’s Hillary, Barack, Rudy, John or Ron Paul)
21. Bike 50 miles, run 5.0 miles and swim 50 minutes on my 50th birthday (it’s a LONG time off so perhaps I will forget)
22. Prepare a meal from scratch with everything grown from my own garden
23. Go to the Final Four with my father and my son
24. Write a series of children’s books (I have started one called Crazy Daddy)
25. Host huge birthday party at Disney World for children who would never get to go there

Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies. He also is a leadership speaker, customer service trainer and sales motivator. For more information go to www.TimRichardson.com