Bucket List

  • Pray, read, run & learn something new every day until I die
  • Improve my marriage & parenting each year; strive to get better every year
  • Be in better shape each decade than the previous
  • Be world-class grandparents when we get there
  • Be a mentor and have a mentor all my life
  • Become an Angel Investor for Christian Business Owners & For-Profit Ministries
  • Journal one page at least 3 days per week
  • Read 30 books per year every year
  • Run all of the World’s Major Marathons; NYC (done), Chicago (done), Boston, London, Berlin, Tokyo
  • Grow Remodel Health to $30M in ARR and exit with generous benefit for all employees
  • Start Real Estate business w Linda; flipping & renting & hard money lending
  • Start a new business with my kids
  • Buy a lake house to fix-up with Linda (in progress)
  • Raise $100K for LifeSong Haiti in a single year via golf outing fund raiser
  • Strive to raise/give away $40M in my lifetime toward my favorite charities
  • Strive to increase my % level of giving to over 50%
  • Teach a college course on entrepreneurship
  • Teach a college course on how to find a job: marketing yourself
  • Start blog and write one article per week
  • Disciple one new believer every year
  • Start real estate business with Linda; flipping & renting homes
  • Start hard money lending business
  • Meet one new person per month who I can learn from
  • Write a book
  • Mentor someone every year until I die
  • Be a mentor under someone every year until I die
  • Qualify for Boston Marathon
  • Run in the Boston Marathon
  • Complete a full Ironman
  • Complete the Comrades Marathon 56 miles in South Africa for World Vision
  • Marathon in London
  • Marathon in Tokyo
  • Marathon in Berlin
  • Marathon in Greece: Olympic
  • Celebrate 30-year wedding anniversary in Bora Bora
  • Celebrate 40-year wedding anniversary in New Zealand
  • Celebrate 50-year wedding anniversary in new country in Europe
  • Take Macy to China
  • Go on European Cruise
  • Go on Alaskan Cruise
  • Play golf at St. Andrews
  • Play Augusta
  • Play Pine Valley
  • Play Cabot Links in Nova Scotia
  • Go to Wimbledon
  • Go to Australian Open
  • Go to French Open
  • Go to US Open tennis with boys
  • Go to British Open golf
  • Go to US Open golf
  • Play top 100 public golf courses in US
  • Play the top 10 private golf courses in US
  • Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
  • Climb to base camp at Mt. Everest
  • Climb the top ten 14ers in US
  • Go on African Safari
  • Visit Holy Land
  • Visit all of the National Parks
  • Run Indy Mini Marathon every year until I die
  • Win a tennis tournament after age 50
  • Win a pickleball tournament after age 50
  • Shoot my age in golf
  • Maintain a single digit handicap in golf
  • Attend a 3-day golf school
  • Join a board for tech start up
  • Snow ski trip with boys each year to CO, UT, WY, MT
  • Destination Marathon trip with boys each year
  • Attend a Super Bowl
  • Attend a World Series
  • Attend SXSW
  • Attend TedX Event
  • RH partnership with Dave Ramsey
  • RH advertise on Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast
  • Join a nice golf country club in FL, AZ, SC, NC or CA
  • Win a member guest golf tournament

Accomplished:

  • 27 years of happy marriage
  • Adopted Macy from China now age 12
  • Raised 4 amazing kids
  • Completed ½ Ironman
  • Completed Toughest Mudder 30-mile obstacle course with Ryan
  • Completed Spartan Beast; 13-mile obstacle course with Tyler, Mike, Dave
  • Completed 4 marathons; Notre Dame, Chicago, New York, Grandma’s
  • Personal Record for Marathon at age 51: 3:26:10 (7:53 mile pace) at Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, MN on 6/22/19
  • Personal Record for Half Marathon at age 51: 1:30:35 (6:55 mile pace) at Indy Mini 5/4/19
  • Played 50+ top 100 golf courses in US
  • Started & built Remodel Health
  • Started & built ISG
  • IPO roadshow with HIIQ to raise $65M on NASDAQ
  • Started UHC MGA channel and grew to $400M in annual sales
  • Started UHC E-Store for online quoting & applications
  • Started Truth @ Work chapter on the Westside of Indy
  • Started Haiti golf outing to raise $20K per year for 3 years
  • Started Restored golf outing to raise $30K per year for 2 years
  • Started mission trips for work; Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize, Haiti
  • Vacation to Bali
  • Vacation to Australia
  • Disney Cruise
  • Mediterranean Cruise to Greece, Italy and extra time in Paris and Rom
  • National Parks with family: Zion, Yosemite, Acadia, Bryce, Rocky Mt, Smokey Mt, Mt Rainer, North Cascades, Olympic, Grand Canyon
  • Board member for Restored Inc.
  • Board member for LifeSong Haiti
  • ONU Alumni Board
  • Attended US Open Tennis in NYC
  • Attended Ryder Cup Golf in Minneapolis, MN
  • Attended The Masters; 3 times
  • Played top 10 public golf courses in US: Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes, Kiawah Island, Whistling Straits, TPC Sawgrass, Spyglass, Pinehurst, Chambers Bay, Erin Hills, Arcadia Bluffs, Blackwolf Run, Streamsong, Pete Dye Course, Kapalua, Harbor Town, The Greenbriar
  • Played several of top 100 Private Golf Courses; Murifield Village, Medinah, Victoria National, Butler National, Estancia Club, Colonial, Valhalla, Crooked Stick, Monterey Peninsula Country Club
  • Zip line in Costa Rica with family
  • Bought lake house near Lake Michigan and renovating
  • Won a father/son tennis tournament
  • 100% debt free by age 50
  • Met Craig Groeschel, Michael Jordan, John Cena, Lou Holtz
  • Brotherhood Mutual $4M deal with Remodel Health
  • Medi-Share deal with Remodel Health
  • Played #1 for ONU Tennis and received first ever ONU scholarship for tennis
  • Career golf round 74 at River Glen in 2018 age 50
  • Hole in one: 2 times; Cabo Del Sol and Smock golf course