Dreams come true
The year each one happened.
- 2003
- 2004
- 2007
- 2008
- Join the Peace Corps
- Complete a Meditation Retreat
- Finish My Website
- 2009
- Hug My Sister on Her Wedding Day
- See Altan Ovoo
- Start Painting
- Make a Five Year Plan
- Develop a Dalai Lama Facebook App
- Set Out Yearly and Monthly Themes
- Become Better at Home Repairs
- Only Have Things I Love and Need
- Develop Peace Corps Merit Badges
- Complete a Serious 3-Month Workout
- Develop a Dalai Lama iPhone App
- 2010
- Learn Massage from a Professional
- Visit America with Tunga
- Partner with the World Health Organization
- Apply to Be a Fulbright Scholar
- Make Awesome Business Cards
- Become a Peace Corps Volunteer Leader
- Teach 50 People Intermediate English
- Publish My First Book
- 2011
- Create a Nonprofit Foundation
- Finish Peace Corps on a Strong Note
- Launch the New Advance Humanity
- Ride a Motorcycle in Mongolia
- Organize TEDx in Mongolia
- Get Married to Tunga
- 2012
- Create Awesome Mongolia
- Become a Peace Corps Fellow
- Take Online Classes at The Academy
- Launch the New Dalai Quotes iPhone App
- Write My Second Book
- Get New Media Group B Corporation Certified
- Start Graduate School
- Teach My Own Class at The Academy
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- Help Tunga Get into Graduate School
- Start B Corps 101
- 2016
- Help Jonathan Move to Vermont
- Write 1,000 Words a Day
- Teach a University Class
- Begin Learning Graphic Design
- Begin Doing Executive Coaching
- 2017
- Write a Children’s Book
- Hug Tunga on Graduation Day
- Build the Optimist Center
- Write a Workbook for High School
- Lead a Summer Program
- Teach in Graduate School
- 2018
- 2019
- Simplify My Personal Brand
- Build a Location-Independent Lifestyle
- Move to a New Home
- Become a Dad
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- Build Huge Legos with My Son
- 2025
- Apply to a Ph.D. Program
- Buy a Tesla
Still dreaming
What I’m working toward, day by day.
- Learn to Play Guitar
- Learn to Play Banjo
- Buy a Piano and Play Again
- Become a Really Good Storyteller
- Write the 15th Dalai Lama
- Save Money to Buy My Own House
- Learn Lots of Jokes and Riddles
- Enjoy What I Am Doing No Matter What
- Lose 25 Pounds
- Live a Simple Life
- Be as Good a Dad as My Dad
- Update Stories from My Dad
- Meditate Every Day
- Decide on Moving to Europe or Canada
- Go on Adventures with Friends
- Meet the Dalai Lama
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
Follow along
One essay a week, every Saturday morning.