life goals/future plans

I like to think of my life goals as a bucket list. Yes, things I would love to accomplish before I "kick the bucket." And my future goals easily fit into this bucket list because they are plans I have before I kick it. Woah! Look at that! They work so well with each other! I love it.
Well, I have come up with a list of my top 25 most important bucket list goals/plans. They are as follows (in no particular order):

1. Marry in the temple
2. Raise a family with the man I love in the gospel
3. Graduate from college
4. Read the top 50 greatest books
5. Visit all 50 states in the US
6. Own a home
7. Stay debt free from everything except higher education and a home
8. Pay those debts off as quickly as possible
9. To be sealed to my family (parents and siblings) in the temple
10. Never forget charity, give service at all oportunities
11. Travel to all the church history sites
12. Be part of a society on the BYU-Idaho campus
13. Graduate from college with at least a 3.5 GPA (preferably higher)
14. Don't get absorbed in finances & work hard--everything will fall into the right place
15. Be able to say I didn't hold back in life
16. Put everyone else before me
17. Travel to a foreign country
18. Put money into memories/helping not materials
19. If I pursue a career, do something that benefits/helps other people
20. Run a marathon
21. Be there for my children always
22. Never go to bed angry at my husband
23. Do at least one extreme sport (aka: skydiving, parasailing, etc.)
24. Get all the family history work I can, done so I can one day be with those people again
25. Stay healthy

I just want to live life to the fullest I can. To learn what I need to in this life and stay worthy to return to my Heavenly Father. All the while enjoying it the best I can. Life's too short to worry all the time.



(photograph I took of the Portland, OR temple and scriptures May 2009)