John Goddard is most known for his amazing Life List of accomplishments. At the age of fifteen John Goddard listed 127 goals he wished to experience or achieve in his lifetime. A generation later, he has accomplished 109 of these quests, and has logged an impressive list of records in achieving them.

I’ve been compiling my “Life List” for the past weeks. It’s still not fully completed yet but I’m sure there’s more to add on at different stages of my life. I hope i will be able to check off at least 3 items from the list in 2007. I have also added things that i have already accomplished before coming up with this life list. Events which i think are highlights that have shaped my life tremendously.

My Life List (17 out of 98 so far…)

EXPLORE
1 North & South Islands of NEW ZEALAND ( Feb-Mar 2005 ) ( will be back again soon )
2 Sarawak, BORNEO ( Feb 2006 )
3 Sabah, BORNEO ( Apr 2006 and July 2006 ) (July 2007) ( will be back again soon )
4 Chengdu-Jiu Zhi Gou-Huanglong-Wolong, CHINA ( Nov-Dec 2006 ) ( will be back to other parts of China )

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“From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.” - John Goddard

One rainy afternoon an inspired 15-year old boy named John Goddard sat down at his kitchen table in Los Angeles and wrote three words at the top of a yellow pad, “My Life List.” Under that heading he wrote down 127 goals.
These were not simple or easy goals. They included climbing the world’s major mountains, exploring from source to mouth the longest rivers of the world, piloting the world’s fastest aircraft, running a mile in five minutes and reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.

Now, a generation later, he has accomplished 109 of these quests, and has logged an impressive list of records in achieving them.

Here is his Life List

Some of the items on the list makes me laugh coz many were so similar to mine…
We all dream of being something great as a child. Mine was to become an astronaut / astronomer. I’ve read every astronomy books in the library since i was 9 and could remember the names of stars, nebulas, galaxies etc better than the names of my classmates. Does that count? Kidding… Well, i’ve since realized that i’m not a very science and math person. :p

This is indeed very inspirational. The sky is the limit…. or should i say the sky is NOT the limit. Nothing is impossible if we really want to make it happen and he showed us exactly that and broke several records along the way too!

What is your life list?