My Next 30 Years

Today is the last day of my 20s. Tomorrow I turn the BIG 3-0. In honor of this milestone, I've made a list of things I want to accomplish or experience in my next 30 years.

1. Visit every country in Europe
2. Travel to six of seven continents (I don't really care about Antarctica)
3. Run a marathon
4. Learn conversational Spanish
5. Go scuba diving
6. Find the perfect job
7. Keep up my Happy List
8. Get married and have children
9. Give more money to charity
10. Turn passion into action
    
11. Get out of debt and stay that way
12. Attend all 4 Grand Slam tennis championships (one down, three to go)
    
13. Attend a taping of the Daily Show
    
14. Attend a taping of the Colbert Report
15. Buy a car I love
16. Get fit and stay that way
17. See U2 in concert
18. Meet Emmitt Smith
19. Go to the Oscars or the Super Bowl
20. Start a new tradition
21. Bring someone to Christ
22. Take hobby classes (photography, cooking, dancing, etc.)
23. Find a new hobby
24. Help someone on the side of the road like I've been helped
25. Send a kid to summer camp
26. Bake a pie for the family that will be passed down to future generations
27. Read every Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction novel
    
28. See an opera at the Met
    
29. Never say no out of fear
30. Always be myself
    

"I think I'll take a moment to celebrate my age, the ending of an era and the turning of a page. Now it's time to focus on where I'll go from here. Lord have mercy on my next 30 years." - Tim McGraw song