Musings at Altitude

Following the lead of one of my favorite sales oriented blogs – Conrey is for Closers – I’ve pondered what my Top 10’s are on the “must do before I retire” lists, both personally and professionally:

Personal Top 10 (not prioritized)

(1) Write a book

(2) Visit China

(3) Take my wife to NHL games in all Canadian team locations

(4) Take my wife on a cruise across the Atlantic and around the Mediterranean

(5) Take my daughter to Daytona or Talladega

(6) Go fishing in Alaska with my son

(7) Take my grandkids on a tour of the White House (when they are older and long out of diapers)

(8) Take my wife to Australia

(9) Join 20 of our favorite people in a box at the Avs game for my wife’s birthday

(10) Go on a missions trip overseas

Professional Top 10 (not prioritized)

(1) Own and grow a company from concept to $100M in annual revenue

(2) Create 1000 jobs

(3) Close a $1B deal

(4) Take a company public

(5) Start a non-profit

(6) Go to business war with my dream team of business executives

(7) Meet Jeff Immelt

(8) File a patent

(9) Invest in a “game changing” technology

(10) Work with one of my kids

Seems doable to me.