Dreamlist 2011

I stumbled upon this old note today. (I am currently doing a huge data consolidation.) This really brings back memories from 2011. I was in my mid 20s and had spent my first year in Bangkok. I had a challenging move from Singapore. I moved for the purpose to grow the business and my entrepreneurial ventures more (well that’s what I told myself).

I haven’t seen this Dream list in years. I was young, wild eyed and a dreamer. Am I still? The younger version of me. Let’s see where we are. The brackets are updates of what happened and where we are now.

1. To be able to own a super car, ie my Aston Martin. (I remember walking around show rooms and couldn’t pull the trigger on what I believed was a liability especially with the high car tax in SE Asia. Also, does it show my maturity at the time?)
2. Being able to do whatever i want and when i want, irrelevant of financial constraints. (In the making.)
3. Learn to fly a plane. (Funny enough, I put this back on to my list during Covid.)
4. Have property all over the world, London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong etc (Yes-ish, in a couple cities but not a property empire.)
5. Learn languages – become a polyglot, French, Thai, Chinese, Spanish etc (Noooo =/)
6. Create multi-million dollar generating business (Yes)
7. Be able to trade FX and other markets confidently and make money at will (Yes, especially in 2015… but then priorities and unexpected life changes happened.)
8. Travel the world, explore, discover, South America, Asia etc (Asia – yes, South America – no)
9. Become a low profile international multi millionaire money making business man (Yes, but… ironic I have this blog.)
10. Be like Chris Tell & co and conquer the world (I’m mutual friend’s with him now. It’s funny how life pans out.)
11. Learn wing chun (They call it, yuan fen 缘分. I will always cherish those moments of training on the old school rooftops in Hong Kong. 谢谢 si fu ko.)
12. Have a spare minimum of 10 million USD in my bank account (Shows my maturity level and thinking at the time?)
13. Live like James Bond (Daniel Craig) _ (Shows my maturity level and thinking at the time?)
14. Be more confident, speak my mind and stand up for myself (Yes)
15. To not be scared of the dark (Yes)
16. Bench press my body weight (Yes)
17. Do 100 push ups non stop (No)
18. Fly business class at minimum all the time, no more coach! (Yes. I remember and appreciate the days of flying budget. Thank you AirAsia, Jet Star, Tiger Air! I do still fly budget / coach, depending on the requirements and convenience. It was nice to finally have the option of choice.)
19. To be able to control my mind, (ie remove negative thoughts) _ (In the making, this is an interesting journey.)
20. Swim with dolphins (No, but do sharks count?)
21. Road trip in Europe (Partly, but not the full trip I wanted… in the making?)
22. To be able to keep a clear mind, ie meditation (At one time, yes… especially in 2015 and 2016.)

I left the list raw, no matter how “silly” some of the goals were 🙂 It’s nice to be able to look back and see changes. How you have grown and the challenges that brought you to different paths and adventures. I should create another dream list, that was my last one (from what I can remember, I even forgot about this one.)