Goals
The following is an ongoing list of things that I want and want to achieve in my life. I will leave them here and mark them off as I tackle them.
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Growth
- Read 50 books per year for the rest of my life
- Drink at least 5 glasses of water each day for the rest of my life
- Spend at least 15 minutes each day with my Bible for the rest of my life
- Listen to at least 30 minutes of business/leadership audio each day for the rest of my life
- Workout at least 3 times per week for the rest of my life
Family
- Replace my wife’s parent’s income and allow them to retire by June 2010
- Help my mother earn her high school diploma
- Help my brother Jermaine finish college
- Take my wife on two vacations every year
- Buy a home with my wife in 2009
- Learn to speak Spanish comfortably and fluently
- Purchase my wife a Jaguar for her 29th birthday
- Take our parents on a vacation in Europe
Have a household income of more than $125,000 in the year 2007- Pay off all student loans for Paula and I within the next five years (2011)
Pay off my car within 3 years (2008)- Take an international trip alone with my dad
- Coach my children’s sports team
- Raise my children trilingual
Business / Professional
Graduate from Penn State University- Earn an MBA from a top 5 business school in the country
- Develop a coaching company that teaches, trains and develops young entrepreneurs
- Write a bestselling book
- Earn a personal income of $500 million by my 45th birthday
- Build a company and take it public
- Build a company and sell it for more than $10 million
- Help 100 people earn their first $1 million
- Establish a minority angel investor network
- Speak in front of an audience of more than 100,000 people
Friends & Fun
- Earn a music Grammy with my friend Josh
- Establish as successful startup consulting company with my friend Mark
- Work on a music-based project with my friend Adrian
- Work again professionally with my friend Isaiah Murray
- Help my friend Ed build a million dollar business within 18 months
- Establish a non-profit foundation for young black males with my friend Aaron
- Pay for my friend Dominic to at attend a basketball camp
- Launch a business clothing line with my cousins David and Greg
- Play in a golf tournament with my friend Aaron
- Take my friend Mark to buy his first luxury car
- Take a vacation with my friend Kelly, my friend Aaron, my friend Rashad and our spouses
- Start a tradition of attending every NBA All-Star Game with my 5 closest male friends
- Attend a hockey game with Costa and Ross
- Sit on the 50 yard line at a Super Bowl game
Go to a U.S. Open GameGo skiing with friendsGo kayaking with friends- Go horseback riding with friends
Meet Jay-Z in person- Meet Denzel Washington in person
- Meet Will Smith in person
- Meet Oprah Winfrey in person
- Meet Barack Obama in person
- Have lunch with John Maxwell
Go to a Broadway show with friends- Own and have listened to 1,000,000 songs
Charity
- Create an college scholarship fund
- Buy brand new books for a an inner-city school classroom
Sponsor a less fortunate child (not related)- Open and fund a school in a third world country
- Open and fund a shelter in a third world country
- Personally donate $10 million to cancer research in my lifetime
- Be able to give 25% of our household income to church and charity by the age of 30
Luxury / Toys
Purchase an Apple Macbook for my wife
Purchase an Apple Time Capsule for my music collection- Build a custom two-story library in my home the holds more than 25,000 books
- Build a huge home theater with only two Italian leather chairs and one Italian leather sofa
- Fly to London on a Concord Jet
Travel to France- Travel to Spain
Travel to Italy- Travel to Czech Republic
- Travel to Dubai
- Travel to Colombia
- Spend a weekend in the Bridge Suite at the Atlantis in Paradise Island, Bahamas
- Purchase a Bentley GT Coupe (platinum with black leather interior) before the age of 30
- Purchase a small hillside home in South America
- Purchase a waterfront property in Mykanos, Greece
- Purchase a summer home on Monhegan Island for my wife
- Purchase a double deck sailboat









