Ambitions
Denise and I started listing out the things we want to do…more me than her…she’s pretty much in the now…I’m the dreamer.
It’s not as easy as it sounds.
In fact, it’s not easy at all.
At our age, you first think about “what do I need to do now”…because we’re not getting any younger…and we want to do some things while we still can enjoy them.
So we have things we want to do together – lots of travel.
I have things I want to do in business.
We have things we want to do in life.
The travel was the easiest for both of us – things we want to do together:
- Visit Paris
- Visit London
- Visit Ireland
- Visit Australia
- Visit Vancouver
- Visit Edmonton
- Visit Calgary
- Visit Montreal
- Visit Toronto
- Visit Ottawa
All the Canadian cities are to see hockey games!
I’ve been to Australia, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Jerusalem, Japan, Ottawa and many more without Denise. We’ve been to Ireland once together. Now it’s time to travel together for pleasure instead of for business. Although we may be able to do some of it for both business and pleasure…that’s what Ireland was.
On the business side, it gets more personal to me:
- Sell a company
- Take a company public
- Create hundreds to thousands of jobs
- Build nirvana in a business culture
- Be the community leader in charitable support
- Be a business incubator
And then on the very, very personal side, it gets core to my beliefs:
- Get active in local charities
- Start a Foundation
- Run for political office
- Make a difference at Local, State and National levels
In reality, I guess the quest started 30 or 40 years ago.
I’m anxious to see what happens in the coming days, months and years to put checks next to many of these on the list.
I’m also eager to travel, eager to build new businesses, and very eager to give.
I wish I could zip forward 20 years and see what happened.
In a sense, I guess I can.