If you want to accomplish anything, you have to aim high, so here are some of my goals.

Personal Life / Family

• Get married
• Raise a family
• Own a home. I’d like to eventually help design my own home.  I’d like for the house to be completely self-sustaining in terms of heating, cooling, and electricity. I also want to have a nice, large Japanese-style ornamental garden with two or more water gardens, a stream, waterfall, and many miniature trees.

Health / Fitness

• Continue working out and return to the level of fitness I enjoyed when I was 18.  This shouldn’t be too difficult because I had plenty of room for improvement when I was 18.
• Live to be at least 130.  This has been my goal since I was about 14.  It’s not as far-fetched as it may sound if you consider the advances that will likely be made in the next few decades. The oldest man living as of the time I’m writing this is Walter Breuning.  He is 113 years old and in pretty good condition mentally and physically. He recently said  he expects that 113 won’t be impressive in a few decades.  Several researchers in biogerontology agree.

Academic / professional

• Learn more differential geometry and practice it until I master the subject
• Learn more about group theory
• Study topology
• Learn more general relativity and practice applying the theory
• Learn more about modified gravitational theories
• Study quantum field theory
• Learn the essentials of modern particle physics
• Publish some papers
• Finish my PhD
• Get a good job that allows me to continue learning and teaching, but also pays fairly well
• Make a significant contribution in the form of a discovery or the development of a new theory or useful technique
• Write several books
• Earn my own entry in Wikipedia–not just create one for myself like some people do.

Miscellaneous

• See a total solar eclipse (most likely this one: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017)
• Get my pilot’s license
• Visit every continent
• Travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

Hopes

• I hope my stock portfolio recovers and grows by the time I finish my PhD.
• The big one:  I hope to live to see the day when humans finally move beyond the archaic,  counter-productive money-based economy.