Aside: I am aware it is no longer October. The past few weeks slowed down my blogging, but I’m back again!

After writing my 100 life goals, I was able to clearly see where the gaps were in my life that shouldn’t be there. The gaps were like groundhog burrows all over a beautiful prairie, annoying and empty tunnels running from one random place to another, but most of all disruptive. In order to accomplish these 100 goals, some things needed to immediately change. For example, hubby and I would like to give the Atlanta University Center’s Dual-Degree Engineering Program an annual scholarship. Cash does not appear overnight, thus we set up a savings account specifically for this goal that drafts a few bucks per pay cycle into the account, so that, Viola! The full amount will be there when we’re good and ready.

So, one of my goals is to volunteer every year with the family. This has got my brain spinning around all the different ways I can volunteer, and I started looking up the various run/walk events taking place, but none really resonated with me. Another goal of mine is to help mothers globally, and unfortunately this is a really vague and ambiguous goal because I have no idea how I am going to do this. And then, I saw the piece about domestic violence awareness month in last month’s O magazine, and I thought, that’s it! The article mentioned how people can volunteer at shelters. Now, I doubt that it’s something that the whole family can do, but possibly something I can do with the boys.

So, I called the national hotline. That simple sentence was much harder to do than I imagined. I got all nervous and jittery while the phone was ringing. I imagined a young female answering the phone and not believing me that I wanted to volunteer and thinking that I was lying and trying to cover up abuse and sneak my way to the shelter.

Well, these shelters are really discrete. So much so, that no one at the local shelter ever answered the phone. I was able to speak with a national representative to get the nearby office contact information, but no one answers the phone. I was hoping that by the time I wrote this post I would have volunteered by now. I will write an update as soon as someone answers the phone.

November 2nd, 2009 • 100 Life Goals.

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Here they all are! All one hundred of my goals! Sheena, from Mommy Daddy Blog was gracious enough to let me guest blog on her wonderful site, so visit her blog to read my 100 life goals. Or, read them right here:


I challenge you to write your 100 life goals. If you do, I will publish them on this blog, so email them to me at 100goals at spelhouseLove dot com. And here are my 100 life goals:

Family Goals

1. Renew our vows at 25th anniversary and have an awesome reception
2. Organize a Richardson family reunion
3. Watch my husband graduate with his PhD
4. Design a family coat of arms
5. Publish a family tree that can be passed down
6. Coach a team for one of my kids
7. Create trust funds for my children & grandchildren
10. Build a treehouse for my kids
11. Write letters to my family
12. Give a speech with hubby
13. Decorate our home together
14. Have a healthy daughter
15. Host our children’s college classmates for Thanksgiving
16. Reunite with estranged relatives
17. Teach our children how to golf
18. Generate enough passive income to retire at 50
19. Teach our children to be chaste but not ignorant about sexuality
20. Have children fluent in another language
21. Dialogue consistently again
22. Raise children excited about reading
23. Publish a family annual report (with balance sheets and all!)
24. Let the children manage the family budget
25. Support the Dual-Degree Engineering Program with an annual Victor scholarship
26. Create a charitable Victor Foundation
27. Buy our kids a house
28. Build a family lodge on mom’s land in GA
29. Volunteer with my children annually
30. Witness my grandchildren’s births
31. Pay for grandchildren’s college education
32. Watch hubby escort my daughter in a debutante ball
33. Invest $10k in my children’s passions
34. Complete a project adventure course as a family
35. Raise children who love Christ

Travel Goals

36. Do business in Singapore
37. Visit a slave fort in West Africa
38. Go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
39. Pray in Israel
40. Speak French in Montreal
41. Visit the Galapagos islands
42. Vacation in Turks & Caicos
43. Listen to an acoustic guitar in Spain with hubby
44. Visit the Mediterranean
45. Visit Fiji/Tahiti
46. Visit Monaco
47. Visit South Africa
48. Attend a marriage retreat in Colorado
49. Take family to MN state fair
50. Take family to Oktoberfest in Helen, Georgia
51. Dogsled in the arctic
52. Play the didgeridoo in Australia

Physical Goals

53. Compete on the Amazing Race with hubby
54. Take Pilates, jazz & African dance classes every year
55. Maintain a healthly BMI (18.5-24.9)
56. Learn to surf
57. Do the splits
59. Have the ability to do 20 pull-ups every year
60. Have six pack abs
61. Go natural (my hair, that is)
62. Complete a high ropes course
63. Go whitewater rafting
64. Go skiing as a family in Aspen
65. Play in a USTA tourney
66. Teach Amari martial arts
67. Learn how to double Dutch
68. Learn roller-skating dance

Experience Goals

69. Send in the last payment on my student loans
70. Be disciplined to save $175K
71. See the earth from space
72. Have a professional photo shoot
73. Take portraits of my children in my own studio
75. Learn Adobe flash
76. Meet Michelle Obama
77. Live in Geneva
78. Go to a ballet
79. Fly a jet
80. Get manis with my daughter
81. Own a home in Tobago
82. Remain consumer-debt free
83. Chaperone my children’s prom
84. Attend the Olympics
85. Attend the world cup

Influence Goals

86. Support mothers globally – not sure how
87. Support breastfeeding legislation by developing lactivism.com
88. Write a business plan
89. Mentor high school females & their parents
90. Speak at a college commencement
91. Have a household name website
92. Sit on as a trustee or board of directors on a national org
93. Teach children how to make websites
94. Be a professional public speaker
95. Read 500 HBS case reports
96. Teach public speaking
97. Market a $1B product
98. Teach a high school Physics class
99. Have monthly blog pageviews of +100K
100. Obtain an honorary degree

September 25th, 2009 • 100 Life Goals.

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Here they are! Hubby  hasn’t finished his yet, so I told him not to read this yet, so here goes:

Family Goals

1. Renew our vows at 25th anniversary and have an awesome reception
2. Organize a Richardson family reunion
3. Design a family coat of arms
4. Publish a family tree that can be passed down
5. Coach a team for one of my kids
6. Create trust funds for my children & grandchildren
7. Build a treehouse for my kids
8. Write letters to my family
9. Give a speech with hubby
10. Decorate our home together
11. Have a healthy daughter
12. Host our children’s college classmates for Thanksgiving
13. Reunite with estranged relatives
14. Teach our children how to golf
15. Generate enough passive income to retire at 50
16. Teach our children to be chaste but not ignorant about sexuality
17. Have children fluent in another language
18. Dialogue consistently again
19. Raise children excited about reading
20. Publish a family annual report (with balance sheets and all!)
21. Let the children manage the family budget
22. Support the Dual-Degree Engineering Program with an annual Victor scholarship
23. Create a charitable Victor Foundation
24. Buy our kids a house
25. Build a family lodge on mom’s land in GA
26. Volunteer with my children annually
27. Witness my grandchildren’s births
28. Pay for grandchildren’s college education
29. Watch hubby escort my daughter in a debutante ball
30. Invest $10k in my children’s passions
31. Complete a project adventure course as a family
32. Raise children who love Christ

September 16th, 2009 • 100 Life Goals.

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