The Apprentice prepares a bucket

It has come to my attention through a lot of my reading lately, that it’s impossible to live a rich life without having a set of goals and dreams to work towards and achieve. Letting life just happen to you and push you around isn’t my idea of fun. That has been the description of my last 30 years.How many times have you asked yourself that proverbial question “I wonder where I’ll be/ who I’ll be in 10years?” Well I now understand that unless you decide where or who you want to be in the future, you’re very likely to be disappointed where you end up. So in that light, I’ve been working on my goals and dreams lately and I thought I’d share what is popularly known as “the bucket list”; a list of things I want to do or experience before I die but in my case, I want to do this before I’m 40.

An Apprentice’s Bucket List before I’m 40

1. To ride a camel and climb the steps of the great pyramids of Giza in Egypt. I also need a cool picture with the sphinx with a broken nose.
2. Go snorkeling on a coral reef especially the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
3. Take a Safari game drive with my family in the Masai Mara or Serengeti. I’d love for a lion or leopard to jump on the roof of the landrover!
4. To climb a mountain, Rwenzori will do.
5. Learn how to ski/ snowboard and then do so on the Swiss Alps.
6. Take a professional defensive driving or racing course
7. Drive a Porsche, Lamborghini or any other super car
8. Serenade my wife as we ride a Gondola in Venice.
9. Give away 100,000,000 UGX or more to church, charity and aid of humanity.
10. Take a 3week Caribbean cruise.
11. Gain 15 kilos of abs, biceps and Pecs!
12. See the entire solar system via giant telescope.
13. Listen to a philharmonic symphony orchestra live.
14. Go to a Broadway show.
15. Go for T.D Jakes Manpower conference.
16. Take my wife and daughter for horse riding on a real horse ranch!
17. Go to the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Vegas!  Yes, i’m a geek!
18. Go Sky diving
19. Visit an walk through Aquarium with my daughter
20. Tour Asia via the Orient Express.
21. Visit the Himeji white castle in Japan
22. Go sand dune riding in Dubai
23. Visit the Eiffel tower and sip coffee and croissants at a traditional street café in Paris
24. Set up a ministry to mentor, encourage and equip men to be Men!
25. Learn how to Fly a helicopter!

This is just a short list as I continue exercising my faith to open up new possibilities. I’d love to hear some of your own bucket lists. I might be dreaming too small. Let get each other pumped up and encourage one another.

Shalom

JOHN DEWEY: Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

ROBERT H. SCHULLER: Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.