Unlimited Time and Money Wish-List

What would you do with unlimited time and money? This post answers that question classifying the items into five categories: education, job/research, philosophical/religion, travel, and home.

Education

·         Complete the Doctorate in Computer Science

·         Learn to play the piano

·         Learn to compose music

·         Have the time to read all assigned readings in my coursework

·         Teach

·         Make an impact on the young, so they can see the world is full of choices and diverse destinations

·         Take more math classes

·         Take more statistics classes

·         Take history classes, and pay attention this time

·         Learn Spanish

Job/Research

·         Research a life changing technology, such as a cure for a terminal illness.

·         Leave a mark on the world; be it an interesting paper, idea, or book.

·         Write another non-fiction book

·         Write a fiction book

·         Master a topic

·         Work where research is the most important element

·         Publish articles

·         Go to conference, present, and be included in the proceedings

·         Share my thoughts

·         Make the future happen, rather than just think about what might be

Philosophical/Religion

·         Become the sort of person who wakes early, drinks coffee on the porch, and thinks a lot

·         Visit old churches, to take in the atmosphere

·         Visit a cathedral, and contemplate the lives spent building it.

·         Learn to paint, and express faith in art

·         Re-read the Bible

·         Read the major religions works

·         Take another philosophy class, and pay attention this time

·         Learn more about Hinduism

·         Learn more about Buddhism

·         Take time to pause, enjoy the moments, and reflect on the past

Travel

·         Run a half-marathon in all fifty states.

·         Spend a long vacation in Ireland.

·         Explorer Alaska, slowly, so that the true measure of the place can be felt.

·         Go to Maine

·         Climb Machu Picchu

·         Go to Yellowstone National Park

·         Go to Iceland

·         Spend time in Australia

·         London

·         Paris

Home

·         Build a log cabin (already a work in progress)

·         Have a study with bookshelves, leather chairs, and a good reading light.

·         Build an outdoor kitchen

·         Grow grapes and make wine

·         Grow berries, such as blueberries.

·         Have a pond/lake with fish and ducks

·         Have a dock on a pond

·         Build a treehouse, for young and old alike.

·         Have a deck with lots of comfortable chairs

·         Have a garden, and actually eat the stuff I grow

Conclusion

Most of the items in these lists do not require unlimited money or time.  As with many things, the issue is about focus and priority.