I believe we should all publish a list, then do what we can to help each other cross off items. Help me out and I promise to return the favor. As I cross off items, I will post photos of the moment below.
- Ride a vintage motorcycle on a winding road through a forest
- Land 360 kickflips (respect your elders) on a semi-regular basis
- Hang on a sailboat in the Mediterranean
- Start a marketing agency using solely the creativity and brain power of aspiring rappers
- Build a bicycle
- Style a photoshoot
- Mentor a young kid
- Mentor an older kid
- Take a day trip with a vintage Porsche
- Live in 400 square feet
- Spend 6 months out of a year in Europe
- Work at a Starbucks
- Open a retail store
- Work as a bartender for a night (or longer)
- Wear a suit and tie everyday for a month to see if I am treated differently
- Take a vacation by myself
- Very seriously launch my own line of footwear
- Read the autobiography of Malcolm X
- Visit Paris
- Own a simple McIntosh home audio set-up
- Dig into my Dad’s extensive vinyl collection
- Take painting and drawing more seriously
- Lose weight and keep it off
- Meet Richard Branson
- Meet Desmond Tutu
- See Duran Duran in concert
- Work at my Mom’s shoe store on a busy Saturday
- Be a motivational speaker
- Appear in the credits of a movie
- Appear in the Thank You section of a CD jacket
- Own an art gallery in Dallas
- Visit Marfa, Texas
- Storm out of a meeting
- Meet Mike Tyson
- Meet Johnny Depp
- Take a long road trip with Jon Ball
- Invest in a tattoo parlor and hair salon (but not have a tattoo or hair)
- Design a home
- Serve as an apprentice to a cobbler
- Own or spend time in a vintage wooden motorboat
- Take a trip with my Mom
- Tell a deserving Hollywood Agent to F*ck Off
- Be quoted for something non-marketing related
- Guest- or regularly contribute to a magazine
- Get a real estate license
- Determine the monetary value of my upbringing and do whatever possible to repay that to my Mom
- Manage a musician
- Own a really nice camera
- Direct a music video
- Travel, travel, travel
- Do my best to ensure that the Wells family does not benefit from generational wealth of the pocket, but only of the mind
- Makeout with a Hollywood starlet (or just flirt)
- Raise wonderful children
- Adjust my work to where it can all be done on a hand-held device
- Inspire/Motivate young people
- Employ an assistant, then give them the keys to the castle
- Get an attitude
- Find more time to relax
- Sit in on the recording of a rock album
- Buy and sell vintage cars
- Chase down a tornado, then get out of the way
- Inspire as much happiness in others as humanly possible
- Complete this list