2024 Personal Goals

Here are all the items that I have written down so far for me to do in 2024. Feedback (+/-) is always welcome.

Morals: Are self given rules that an individual is based on one’s individual beliefs, hunch, or religious beliefs which define good and bad.

Ethics: Are externally created rules which define good and bad.

2024 Goal in order of impact on myself

  • Skydiving (skills, overcoming fear, $40*50=$2000: $2000 real skydiving)

  • Obtain private pilot's license (skills, overcoming fear) ($15,000)

  • Learning excel (skills)

  • Logical Thinking (skills)

  • Speaking (skills)

  • Salesman (skills)

  • Networking in Startups (skills)

    • Meeting 500 new people

    • Research 500 companies

  • Gardening (skills)

  • Home repair (skills)

    • Hang curtains

    • Build fireplace (outdoors)

    • Build fence around property

    • Power wash driveway

    • Built Gym

  • Wilderness survival skills (skills, overcoming fear)

  • 1x Camping for 21 days straight (skills, overcoming fear)

  • Run 1,000 miles- join a running club

    • Run 1 x Marathons

  • Buy and sell 4 vehicles

  • Chant “Om Mani Padme Hum” x 100,000

  • Learn a foreign language (not scheduled)

  • Start a Podcast interviewing Startup founders

  • Start a blog

  • Become an expert source

  • Sign up for HARO (Help A Reporter Out) to receive alerts when journalists are looking for experts.

  • Seek out speaking engagements

  • Interview other experts

  • Share your knowledge in industry forums

  • Bring people together by organizing an event…

  • Start an online community (Startup related, on Linked-In)

  • Check: Real Estate Commission Settlement Case

  • Create Twitter subscription newsletter

  • Check out: https://ptccrypto.xyz/

  • Invest in FairPark Area


  • Read 50 Books

    • Plato’s (The Replubic)

    • The BushCraft Box Set - Dave Canturberry

    • Steal the Show - Michael Port

    • World Great Speeches

    • The Art of Public Speaking

    • Thinking in Systems Donells H. Meadows

    • Autobiography of a Yoghi - Paramhansa Yogananda

    • Emotional Intelligence (Set)

    • Strengths FInder

    • The Art of War

    • Bushido: The Soul of Japan

    • As a Man Thinketh

    • Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

    • The Brothers Karamazon

    • Atomic Habits (James Clear)

    • Master Your Emotions (Thibaut Meurisse)

    • This is How we Do It

    • How to Innovate

    • COVID-19 The Great Reset - Klaus Shwab

    • Motessori Parent (Coronavirus Survival Guide)

    • Best Friends Worst Enemies

    • The Restoration of the Self

    • Self Psychology Nocole LaPera

    • Parenting from the Insideout

    • The Communist Manifesto

    • The Prince

    • Beyond Good and Evil

    • The Road to Serfdom

    • Heart of Darkness

    • Thomas Hobbs - Laviathan 

    • Humphrey Bland’s A Treatise 

    • Chariots of fire

    • Les miserable

    • Learner control instruction

    • of Military Discipline, a manual popular in the British Army.

    • Soul searching questions

    • dag hammarskjöld biography

    • Biographies (Nepoleon, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Grahm Bell, George Washington, Neil Armstrong, Jackie Robinson, 

    • Economist ($200) annually

    • News Papers

    • Industry Magazines

    • Dallas Business Journal $80 - $950 (annually)

    • Harvard Business Review $15 monthly (print & digital)

    • MIT Articles

    • RealVision ($7,200/year)

    • Delphi Digital ($1,668)


  • Volunteer 100 hours

    • Boys and Girls Club

    • Teaching English online

  • Religious Time 50 hours

  • Meditate 150 hours

  • Get Indian OCI card

  • Take CliftonStrength Test

  • Learn Poker

  • Earn my gun license

  • Possess a gun

  • Is there an archery license?

  • Practice archery

  • Answer 1,000 prompting questions, right side brain.

  • Create a Self Constitution

  • Create my own Eulogy

  • Write a letter to X as if I am going to die in one week.

    • I having been using my pricipals to serve myself instead of those I truely love.


Identifying Roles and Goals

What are all my role and goals (2-3)I want to achieve?

  • Step #1 Take time to record the impressions I had in the funeral visualization. Focus on Family, Friends, Work, Community Service. Character, Contribution, Acheivements

  • Step #2 Write down my roles as I now see them. Am I satisfied with that mirror image of my life?

  • Step #3 Take time to comppetely seperate myself from daily activities and begin to work on my personal mission statement. 

  • Step #4 Thinking through the different centers of a person’s life and what has my center been. What do I want my center to be?

  • Step #5 Start a collection of notes, quotes, and ideas that I want to use for my personal mission statement.

  • Step #6 Identify a project which I will be facing in the near future and apply the process of mental creation.

    • Write down results that I desire and what steps will lead to my desire.

  • Step #7 Share the habits of step 2 with my family or work group, then suggest beginning to create a family or group mission statement.

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