This post is a short departure from language-related topics.
However, The Language Voyager was not just meant to be another language blog giving advice on how to learn languages. The Language Voyager is more than just a language learning blog.
The Language Voyager is ultimately meant to inspire people to live boldly, not just in language learning, but in all aspects of life. To be successful in language learning or anything else is never to settle for the mediocre.
I will forever remember a certain quote from Batman Begins that I think should be part of the credo of everyone who strives for greatness: “If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they cannot stop you, then you become something else entirely: A legend.” The point of this quote is: don’t settle for an ordinary life just because someone said you should, create a vision that you strive towards, and be completely hell-bent on creating the life you want. Stop at nothing to create your IDEAL life.
I was inspired to write this post by Lithuanian entrepreneur Tomas Laurinaricius’ post “100 Exciting Things I Want to Do Before I Die” and my friend German life coach and entrepreneur Ramona Fellermeier’s post “100 Things I Will Do in 2016” on her blog Always Happy Travels. Make sure to check out both of their posts and their websites if you’re interested!
So anyway this is a list of the 100 things I want to do in 2016 and 2017 starting in February! Here we go!!!
Enjoy
1. Get a haircut every 3 months
2. Running and exercise
3. Eating healthy, delicious food
4. Loving people, myself, and life
5. Reading
6. Meeting new people
7. Listening to music
Love and Connect
8. Spend time with my family
9. Spend time with my friends
10. Turn more of my Facebook friends into real-life ones
11. Turn many of my LinkedIn connections into real-life ones
12. Meet up and talk with my World Domination Summit and Live Your Legend connections online and offline
13. Skype with my growth friends every month
14. Skype with Sophia (my German sister) every month
15. Skype with my cousins Jenna and Kylie every month
Give
16. Offer my language tutoring and coaching services to my friends and to language students
17. Start, organize, and lead a Live Your Legend meetup in Ashland, Oregon every month (check out what Live Your Legend is here)
18. Volunteer as a Toastmasters officer
19. Practice kindness
20. Help people in my life change their lives
21. Start teaching online again, begin creating a course
22. Start coaching online and offline
23. Work remotely for a coach by December 31st
24. Connect somehow with Chris Guillebeau, Stephanie Zito, and Sean Ogle
25. Create a short video personally addressed for each of my connections every month to tell them that I appreciate their work and what they’re doing and ask how I can help them
Travel
26. Travel to the World Domination Summit this August 11-15 in Portland! (Bought my ticket!!!)
27. Travel to see my relatives in the Salem and Portland areas
28. Save up for a cousins trip in Europe I eventually plan to do with my cousins Jenna and Kylie
29. Travel to Portland several times to look at neighborhoods, housing, and jobs
Grow
30. Practice mindfulness with the Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo every day this year
31. Read two pages of The Heart of a Leader by Ken Blanchard every week this year
32. Practice my speaking and presentation skills in front of Toastmasters every week
33. Build and keep in contact with group of people offline and online that I regularly talk to that won’t let me fail.
34. Redo the Marie Forleo B-School
Learn
35. Learn Russian to a B2 level (high intermediate proficiency in the CEFR – look it up here) by July or December
36. Learn German to a B2 level by July and a C1 level (advanced proficiency in the CEFR) by December
37. Begin learning Korean this year to an A2 level (elementary proficiency in the CEFR)
38. Learn Hindi and French to a B2 level by December
39. Do a Chinese reading and writing challenge to complete by the end of 2017
40. Learn how to become a master networker to build the personal and professional relationships I want - HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
41. Learn about myself
42. Begin learning about finances
43. Work on the free E-Myth courses
Make a Habit
44. Write 2 blog posts per month (1 every two weeks) and focus on writing quality!
45. Publish three videos a week (1 to 2 minutes long)
46. Go for a daily run 6 days a week
47. Create a Daily Meditation Routine -10 minutes every day
48. Laugh every day a lot
49. Be thankful every day
50. Exercise every day
51. Connect with two inspiring people every month (on average)
52. Take life less seriously
53. Create a Daily Affirmation Routine – 10 minutes every day
54. Create a Daily Visualization Routine – 10 minutes every day
55. Organize my room every week
56. Eat well and gradually move towards a 50% vegetable, fruit, and grain diet
Move
57. Go running 6 days a week 1.8 kilometers/3 miles per day
58. Increase my core strength
59. Increase my leg and arm strength
60. Try yoga for the first time (in small steps)
61. Try tai chi for the first time (the first 12 moves)
62. Go for a daily walk
Thrive
63. Stay healthy
64. Listen to my body
65. Develop my intuition and gut feeling
66. Don’t apologize for being who I am
67. Always keep an abundance mentality rather than a scarcity mentality – THINK AND GROW RICH
68. Smile!
Work
69. Get a part time or full time job in Ashland, Oregon to save up the money I need to move to Portland, Oregon by December 31st
70. Get an online, location-independent, and part time job that I love
71. Work remotely for a coach by December 31st
72. Host a language coaching workshop
73. Lead Live Your Legend meetups in Ashland every month
74. Research universities in Germany
75. Research neighborhoods and areas of Portland
Earn
76. $8,000 to move to Portland, Oregon by December 31st
77. $5,000 for initial business and operation expenses to finally get my website really going by December 31st (this isn’t the amount I need to earn, I just chose this amount so that my business (especially my website) will begin to comfortably operate and continue running). If I don’t need as much money as that amount please let me know.
78. $600 to purchase the School of Greatness course
79. $700 to pay off the remaining price of the Lewis Howes 7 Figure Webinars course (which I had to stop using until I can pay the rest of the $1200, $500 already paid off, $700 to go so that I can keep using the course)
80. $42 every six months for the biannual Toastmasters fee
Some money to help keep The Language Voyager going for the long term
Buy
81. The School of Greatness course by Lewis Howes for $600
82. The Live Off Your Passion Course by Scott Dinsmore and the Live Your Legend team for $197
83. The How to Make Your First $1,000 from Your Passions and Talents by Scott Dinsmore and the Live Your Legend Team for $147
Experience
84. The World Domination Summit 2016
85. Attend a concert
86. Attend a festival
87. Throw a party
88. Sing karaoke in a bar
89. Do something that tests my limits
90. Being present
91. Try to go on a date with someone
Create
92. Write and edit my first book about my life story (beginning in February)
93. Write and edit my first book about language learning (beginning in March)
94. Finish my free ebook for The Language Voyager website signup and opt-in forms
95. Color in my adult coloring books
96. Write every day in a foreign language and write my honest authentic feelings
97. Develop a fun business idea with a friend (and maybe bring it to life)
98. Start meetup groups for language learning and Live Your Legend and other communities of like-minded people
99. Create an environment of inner peace and joy for myself
100. Send out handmade, handwritten cards to clients and friends
What does your list look like? How does it feel to you? Please put a link to your post below and write out what you want to achieve this year!
As always, Enhance Your Voyage and Learn a Language!
-Alex