I picked up this coffee mug in a beach town outside of Charleston, South Carolina.  Like most of my mugs, it’s a memory I’d like to have more often. 

Recently, I completed our company’s Vivid Vision and decided it was time to do one for ME, Matt Plapp.  What do I want in life, but more importantly in the short term?

A few years ago, I landed on my life’s mission: to be able to do what I want, when I want, and with whom I want. 

It sounds lofty, right? But honestly, it’s doable for any of us. Look around; we are all controlled by someone or something. Well, I aim to change that for myself.  One of the few people I’ve heard openly talk about living like this is Dana White, the founder of the UFC as we know it today.  I can’t entirely agree with everything he does in his crazy life, but I agree with how he lives by his own rules.  

So, with that, I started making a list of what I’d like the next three years to look like.  

– I want to take 12 trips every year.  Six will be 2-3 day trips, and the other six will be 4-7 day ones.  

– Read a book every other week

– Pay off all my debt

– Earn $1 million monthly and have $5 million in a savings account that can’t be touched.  

– 10% body fat at 170 pounds

– Dunk a basketball

– Personally build a 6-foot rock wall around our 7-acre property

– Travel to Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Bali and the United Kingdom

– Build our dream home 

– Speak once per quarter in different countries.

– Remodel my parent’s house.

Wild list, right?  And hard to imagine, I agree!  But that’s what a BHAG is all about.

Stay tuned, one day soon I’ll talk about each of these items in detail.