I believe in the “quarter-life crisis”
January 26, 2008
In theory, anyway.
I was inspired today by a movie title I saw on Lifetime:
19 Things To Do Before I’m 30
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Help stimulate $1million in strategic, benevolent investment by Black families.
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Teach a Sunday School class.
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Climb a rock wall. (I’m deathly afraid of heights, so hey, I gotta start small.)
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Be a published author.
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Appear on TV.
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Cook dinner for Thanksgiving or Christmas for my family (you ain’t met my family or had my grandmother’s cookin’…)
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Learn to accept (and believe) compliments.
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Own stock in a publicly-traded company.
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Learn to play my favorite songs on the piano (it’d be good to be able to sing them WHILE I play too..)
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Design the interior of my own house.
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Mentor somebody. (although some may say I’m doing that now, I want to be more deliberate about it.)
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Get this ‘love thing’ right.
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Stop drinking so much damn soda! (aka drink 8 cups of water daily)
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Pay those nice folks at Penn off.
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Go back to Ghana and visit the Holy Land.
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Forgive the folks I really haven’t forgiven yet.
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Ask for forgiveness from the folks I still deny hurting.
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Actually jump rope double-dutch instead of always bein’ the ‘turner’.
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RELAX enough to get all the way there every time.
Got any more suggestions for me?
Or got a list of your own? Post it!

1. Watch yet another championship-clinching game by MY Los Angeles Lakers!! (Gotta mention the Lakers, rite? lol)
2. Become a well-known, not to mention WELL-PAID sportswriter!! Where? Doesn’t really matter…
3. Get down to a size I’m comfortable with; I’m already off to a good start, but it’s not how you start, it’s how finish, rite?
4. Meet Kobe; but if I don’t by 30, best believe I’ma keep tryin!! lol
5. Did I say graduate? lol Can’t forget that…
6. Have a higher bowling average than my dad!! He just think he SO good, but I can take him!!
7. Move out, maybe? We’ll see how it goes…lol
8. Be RICH!! Don’t doubt me, I can do it…
9. Have a steady relationship. Havin more than 1 girl is EXHAUSTING!! lol
10.Be loved by many, but respected by MORE!! Ya dig…
I am still working on this…
1. Finish my master’s degree
2. Continue in growing closer to God and in
discerning His direction for my life.
4. Grow my business (more details to come)
5. Become a better budgeter & investor
6. Eliminiate chronic procrastination!
7. Travel to Israel
8. Have more time to commit to public service
9. Learn to RELAX too…and enjoy it!
10. Take at least on dance class (African or
Latin)