Over the past few years, I have had some exceptionally good success at achieving some life-long goals. In no particular order, here they are:
- In the summer of 1995, I visited Microsoft in Redmond. I remarked to my aunt, who was visiting with us at the time, that one day I wanted to work there. 12 years later, in 2007, I accomplished that by moving to the United States pacific northwest.
- In 1994, I saw a magician on a television special "The World’s Greatest Magic" make the Space Shuttle vanish. 14 years later, in Sept 2008, I did the very same thing. Myself and a friend visited NASA and they had one of the shuttles on display. I made it vanish (I had a digital camera with me that shoots video). I don’t know if I ever plan to release the video, but the point is that I accomplished it.
- I started trading stocks in 2004 and I made a goal to make $1000 on the market. I’ve done that over and over again, so I had to change that to make it more difficult – to make a gain in a stock of 100%. I accomplished that, twice, in 2007.
- In 2003, I went scuba diving in Mexico off the coast of Cancun and really enjoyed it. I made it a goal to go scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. Three years later, in 2006, I accomplished it.
- Right after I got back from Australia and Fiji in 2006, I created a new goal: to visit China and go to the Great Wall. Two years later (just a three weeks ago from the writing of this post), I accomplished it.
So you see, I actually have a pretty good track record of doing fairly lofty goals. While on the trip, I commented to some of my fellow travelers that I needed a new life long dream and at the time I couldn’t think of one. Well, now I have one – to dance the Tango in Argentina. That is going to be my new goal. A satisfactory accomplishment would also be to dance Salsa in a Latin American country, but Tango is the one I’m targeting.
The other goal is one I have had for a while and almost accomplished in 2005 – to perform magic on television. I have magic on the Internet, but TV is where it’s at.