From "Being" to "Doing"

So If-I-Couldn't-Fail list came up with 11 items. I realize I've had most of this list in my head most of my life. Now it's on paper. Or at least the Internet.

The next step is to reframe each "being" wish into a "doing" wish.

Wish 1) Autopilot 250k/y and trip the folks to Taj Mahal. That's pretty quantified already. I'd like it to be a three week trip, so we can take the cool restoration in Darjeeling first and accustom ourselves to the time and culture, then give these older, less mobile, harder of hearing folks a comfortable able tour of all the sites they want to see. OK that one will be simple to determine whether it has been met or not.

Wish 2) Fear of water/learn scuba --> twenty minute open water dive with a camera to photograph fish and coral; post the photos and the trip report on this blog.

Wish 3) Personality -> go a month without panicking (ok to panic if really in danger)

Wish 4) Languages -> telephone the newspaper archives in Russia and ask for information on how to receive back issues - and understand the response

Wish 5) Writings -> publish one article of nonfiction in a print publication for payment

Wish 6) Pub T -> taste-test and review the ten most popular British brews

Wish 7) Orphanage autopilot-> attempt after 1, 4 & 6.

Wish 8) Climb a mountain -> hike a local trail I can do with my kid

Wish 9, 10 and 11 -> start with 3).