One rainy day fifteen enthusiast John Goddard sat down at the kitchen table at his home in Los Angeles, took a piece of paper and titled it "The objectives of my life." Under the heading, he wrote 127 life goals. Since then, John Goddard managed to reach 108 of them.
Look at the record Godtsarda provided below. There are marked not simple and easy target. These include the conquest of the mountain peaks, extensive study of water space, the ability to manage a mile in five minutes, reading the complete works of Shakespeare and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Explore the river:
1. Nil
2. Amazon
3. Congo
4. Colorado
5. Yangtze (China)
6. Niger (West Africa)
7. Orinoco (Venezuela)
8. Coco (Nicaragua),
Explore primitive culture:,
9. Congo
10. New Guinea
11. Brazil
12. Borneo
13. Sudan (nearly killed in a sand storm)
14. Australia
15. Kenya
16. Philippines
17. Tanzania
18. Ethiopia
19. Nigeria
20. Alaska
Conquer peaks:,
21. Everest
22. Aconcagua (Argentina)
23. McKinley
24. Huascaran (Peru)
25. Kilimanjaro
26. Ararat (Turkey)
27. Kenya
28. Cook (New Zealand)
29. Popocatépetl (Mexico)
30. Matterhorn
31. Rainier
32. Fuji
33. Vesuvius
34. Bromo (Java)
35. Grand Teton
36. Balde (California)
37. Take up the medicine and research (study of disease symptoms and the primitive tribes)
38. Visit all countries
39. To study the Indian tribes of Navajo and Hopi
40. Learning to fly the aircraft
41. A horse walk in the Rose Pered,
To photograph the waterfalls:,
42. Iguazu (Brazil)
43. Victoria
44. Sutherland (New Zealand)
45. Yosemite
46. Niagara
47. Repeat the path of Marco Polo and Alexander of Macedon,
Underwater research:,
48. Coral reefs in Florida
49. Great Barrier Reef (Australia) - to photograph clam weighing 300 pounds
50. Red Sea
51. Fiji
52. Bahamas
53. Peat deposits Okefenoki and the Everglades
Visit:
54. North and South Poles
55. Great Wall
56. Panama and Suez canals
57. Easter Island
58. Galapagos
59. Vatican City (see Pope)
60. Taj Mahal
61. Eiffel Tower
62. Blue Grotto
63. Tower of London
64. Incident leaning tower of Pisa
65. Holy wall of Chichen Itsza (Mexico)
66. Climb on the rock Ayers (Australia)
67. Proceed to the Jordan River from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea,
Swim in the lake:,
68. Victoria
69. Top
70. Tanganyika
71. Titicaca (South America)
72. Nicaragua
Learn and perform:,
73. Become a Scout-"eagle" (Boy Scout first degree)
74. To sail on a submarine
75. Take off and land on aircraft carrier
76. Fly on the airship, balloon and glider
77. Take a trip on an elephant, camel, ostrich and Mustang
78. Down under the water at 40 feet and hold your breath for two and a half minutes
79. Catch a lobster weighing 10 pounds and 10 inches in snail length
80. Learning to play the flute and violin
81. Learn to type at 50 words per minute
82. He jumped with a parachute
83. Learning to ride on water skis and conventional
84. Doing missionary activity
85. Become a follower Muir Trail
86. Explore traditional medicine and to gather useful recipes
87. Filmed the elephant, lion, rhino, cheetah, buffalo and the whale
88. Learn fence
89. Master jujitsu
90. After college
91. See cremation ceremony in Bali
92. Explore depths of the sea
93. To play in a Tanzanian film (now John considers this item a pipe dream child)
94. Buy a horse, chimpanzee, cheetah, ocelot and coyote (yet has a chimpanzee and cheetah)
95. Become hobbyist
96. Collect telescope
97. Write a book (published "Journey on the Nile"
98. Publish an article in the magazine "National Geographic"
99. Jump in height at 5 feet
100. Jump in length by 15 feet 101: run over a mile in 5 minutes
102. Raise the weight to 175 pounds (not yet implemented)
103. Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups
104. Learn French, Spanish and Arabic
105. Explore draconian lizard on the skeleton bureaus (boat capsized about 20 miles from the coast)
106. Visit Ded Sorenson in Denmark
107. Visit Ded Goddard in England
108. To sail on the ship as a sailor
109. Read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica (already read most of each volume)
110. Read through the Bible
111. Read the works of Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Poe, Rousseau, Bacon, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Conrad, Tolstoy, Longfellow, Keats, Emerson and Uitera (yet mastered only selected works of each author)
112. To meet with the works of composers: Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Lully, Rimsky-Saks, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Verdi
113. To be able to handle the aircraft, motorcycles, tractors, rifle, pistol, canoe, microscope, play football and basketball, archery, throwing the lariat and boomerang
114. Compose
115. Playing piano
116. View torchlight procession (Bali and Surinam)
117. Drink milk a poisonous snake (bitten by a cobra during photography)
118. Lights the match with a shot from the rifle 22-caliber
119. Visit the studio
120. Move up to the pyramid of Cheops
121. Become a member of the Explorers Club and the adventurous
122. Learning to play polo
123. Take a trip to Grand Canyon
124. Circumnavigate the globe (toured the world four times)
125. Fly to the moon (maybe someday, with God's help)
126. Marry and have children (has five children)
127. To live up to the onset of the XXI century (he turns 75 years old)
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