#Greggslist shows what 52 accomplished goals looks like

The new year brings resolutions that most of us typically fail to achieve (unless we set really low-risk ones like: get up in the morning and drive to work … five minutes earlier that usual). But Columbus’ Gregg Dodd wanted to accomplish his 2014 goals, and inspire others. He set out 52 goals for himself at the start of 2014 and managed to complete his #Greggslist. The list, which is below, included such things like grow a beard (#1), take a helicopter ride (#9), and shout, “drinks on me” at a bar and pay the bill (#30).

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Gregg’s List

1. Grow a beard.
2. Run two marathons in two different cities.
3. Go parasailing.
4. Spend a day with a CEO from a Fortune 500 company.
5. Research my family tree.
6. Make amends with someone I hurt.
7. Take a cooking class.
8. Volunteer at a nursing home.
9. Take a helicopter ride.
10. Read a great book I should have read in college.
11. Learn to do the Salsa.
12. Go on a Napa Valley wine tour.
13. Hike on the Appalachian Trail.
14. Take a trapeze class.
15. Learn yoga.
16. Enter and run 12 (1 a month) 5Ks.
17. Make someone’s wish come true.
18. Pick apples then make a pie.
19. Be able to do 10 pull-ups.
20. Go for a week without technology.
21. Surf.
22. Host a murder mystery dinner.
23. Swim with dolphins.
24. Go indoor skydiving.
25. Do a 5K mud run.
26. Make how to make a perfect martini from a professional bartender.
27. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
28. Scuba dive.
29. See the Northern Lights.
30. Shout, “drinks on me” at a bar and pay the bill.
31. Leave a $100 tip on a small bill.
32. See in movie at a drive-in.
33. Stay up 24 hours in New York City.
34. Shave my head in support of someone with cancer.
35. Get a tattoo.
36. Enter a triathlon.
37. Swim two miles.
38. Participate in a polar bear plunge.
39. Kiss someone on a dare.
40. Take a hot air balloon ride.
41. Rock climb.
42. Eat something outside of my comfort zone.
43. Run the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Rocky).
44. Cook in for a week and donate what I would’ve spent to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.
45. No alcohol for a month.
46. Do one of two things I swore that I’d never do: 1-Ride the Millennium Force at Cedar Point, or 2-Skydive.
47. Attend a seminar on how to remember people’s names.
48. See DC through the eyes of someone who’s never been.
49. Have a drink at every Short North bar in a single night.
50. Learn to play chess.
51. Kiss in the rain.
52. Retrace the steps of my youth at Camp Frontier.

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