101 Lifetime Goals
Life and Spirituality Success and Goal Achievement
My “101 Lifetime Goals” List (And Why You Should Have One, Too)
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.
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.
Personal 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 personal goals you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve them.
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.
As my friend Brian Tracy says, SMART goals are essential to motivating yourself and others to achieve success. I absolutely agree with him and – as many of you can attest – I encourage everyone to start with a list!
What goals do YOU want to achieve in your lifetime?
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 examples of 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 50 countries, and conducted seminars or given speeches in 47 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 5 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 (61 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 18 holes under 90 (Deleted due to ruptured disc)
Run a 10k race
Run 14 miles in less than 3 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 6 Lexus cars so far)
Speak in 30 or more countries (47 so far)
Give a university commencement address (3 so far)
Attend my 50th 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 26, 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 5 magic tricks
Learn to sing and play 10 popular songs on the guitar
Give a speech or conduct a seminar in all 50 states
Appear on the cover of a magazine (over 20 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 50 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 6 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 50th 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 rainforest 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 45 – and I’m proud to say that I’ve crossed more than a few goals off the list – 80 to be exact!
My 2019 New Year Goals Update:
2018 has had many successes. These are goals I’ve set for 2019 that are very important to me, my business, and my family. Here’s what I will be focusing on in 2019:
My Financial goals for 2019 are:
To increase the Canfield Training Group gross income $5 million
To double my personal income
To earn $600,000 in personal speaking fees
To enroll 1000 people into our online Train the Trainer program
To enroll 50 people into our 2020 Train the Trainer program
To have a minimum of 200 people in our Caribbean Cruise in March
My Professional Goals for 2019 are:
To complete and publish the following 6 books Living the Success Principles, The Success Principles Workbook with Brandon Hall, The Success Principles for Women, The Power of Wow with Raymond Aaron, Unstuck book with Lyse Janelle, The Big, Bad Bully (a children’s book) with Miriam Laundry
To complete and publish to Tree of Life Meditation CDs with Deirdre Hade
To complete the strategic planning for a major podcast membership program
To complete and implement a membership and support program for our Canfield Train the Trainer graduates
To complete a thorough de-cluttering of my office
To hire a new part-time personal assistant for myself
To create a new more efficient system for handling my emails
To be complete 48 interviews or podcasts where others interview me—and
To develop a TEDx talk on the topic of Rejection is a Myth
My 2019 Relationship goals are:
To have a date night with my wife Inga every week that I am home and not on the road.
To have 100 or more Free days at home or on vacation with my wife
To spend a minimum of two weeks with my grandson Ozzie, who lives in Brooklyn, NY
My Health and Fitness Goals for 2019 are:
To weigh 195 pounds or less
To work out using High-Intensity Interval Training and weightlifting for at least 30 minutes a day a minimum of 3 days a week.
To take two 20-minute walks a day
To drink two and a half liters of water a day
To get a minimum of 26 massages
My Fun and Recreation goals for 2019 are:
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To take a 30-day vacation in Hawaii with my wife
To take a one-week vacation with my wife and six friends in a villa on the beach in the Bahamas
My Personal goals for 2019 are:
To read books on personal, spiritual or professional development for a minimum of 30 minutes a day.
To watch two TED or TEDx talks every week.
To read 36 or more books
To complete the new landscaping around the swimming pool area of the property
My Contribution Goals for 2019 are:
To give 4 free talks for the local community educational and nonprofit organizations in Santa Barbara
To tithe 10% of my after-tax income to nonprofit organizations including The Unstoppable Foundation, Child Abuse Learning and Mediation, The Bodhi Path Meditation Center, The Pachamama Alliance, UNICEF Children’s Fund, Doctors Without Borders, and Direct Relief.
To provide one free online Train the Trainer program to someone in a third world country for every one we sell.
Once you’ve completed your list, please share some of your own personal development goals and professional goals in the comments below.
I’d love to read them!
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