What do I want out of life?

Must be a simple question for some, but the most difficult for me. I guess I’ve been trying to figure it out forever. Heck my conclusion is that I’ve no burning ambition in life - an ambition for which I may give up everything, or give ‘it’ everything.

A little secret. People often ask (typically in training programs and interviews) what my ambition is. Sometimes I’ve been honest enough to say that I really do not have an ambition, but sometimes I just make up something. And it’s not that, that ’something’ is not something I want. Well I do want ‘that’, but does that qualify to be a burning ambition. Heck, no.

For the time being I’ve given on identifying my burning ambition. Guess I’m fine without one. It may be a very mediocre thing to do (being fine without THE BIG goal), but well I haven’t found it yet.

So. So what if I don’t know what the big goal is yet. How about the small ones that keep coming to my mind everyday. I read somewhere recently that writing ‘it’ down brings commitment to a thought. So well I thought, why not. Let me write down, and possibly keep writing my-goals (that’s the tag I intend to use for similar future posts).

Here goes. Some of the things I want out of life (Disclaimer: some of them will be VERY contradicting, but that’s how I am!):

1. I want to be an entrepreneur - run a startup
2. I want my startup to go public
3. I want to make a lot of money
4. I want a  life of solitude - with nothing to do
5. I want to read all the books on the planet (or the ones that count)
6. I want to go back to school - Harvard
7. I want to travel at least 50% of the globe
8. I want to go on a cruise
9. I want to own a yacht
10. I want to do sky-diving
11. I want to do scuba diving
12. I want to learn how to play the guitar
13. I want to learn how to play the piano
14. I want to learn how to swim (funny but yeah I don’t know how to swim!)
15. I want to learn Waltz
16. I want to learn Salsa
17. I want to learn French
18. I want to learn horse riding
19. I want to learn how to fly a plane
20. I want to own my private jet
21. I want to live away from the city, in peace and tranquility with no material interests whatsoever
22. I want to…

Well that should be enough for a lifetime. Maybe no. I’m sure I’ll keep adding to this list. But I guess the more important thing is how many I accomplish out of this list. Let’s see……..!