Your goals and what you want as Bourne...

To begin with, you need to separate your life as Bourne as your normal everyday self.  Realize that what you do as Bourne are the things you desire.  You'll notice that many of things you want to do will also trickle to your everyday life.  For example, if you've ever wanted to learn how to speak Mandarin, you may get an offer for a position at work involving international trade with Chinese based-businesses.  If you wish to learn how to drive like Bourne, you may take a driving education class that will help you reduce silly errors while driving, hence leading to reduced traffic violations.

But in order to start your Bourne-esq life, you need to being with a list of goals you wish to accomplish in a 6 month or 1 year span.  No, not 3 year goals or 10 year goals, but a short term time frame.  The shorter you keep your goals, the more realistic they are to achieve them.  Leave the 3 year plus planning to your normal, everyday life.

I personally am a big fan of keeping a notebook or purchasing a planning tool like Franklin Covey or other life planning programs.  These will help you keep track of where you are in achieving your short term goals and how far you have to go.  It will also assist in scheduling your training of what you need to accomplish the goal.

For the first 6 months, I had 6 goals in the following categories:
1. Resources
2. Travel
3. Language
4. Fitness
5. Physical Skills (Sport/Martial Arts, etc)
6. Intrinsic Skills (Race car driving, computer skills, etc)

I then selected at least one goal in each category that I wanted to accomplish in that time frame.  In some categories, such as travel, you can have more than one goal.  My six month goals were the following:
1. Resources: Establish an online business earning $1,000 per month.
2. Travel: Visit a Far East country
3. Language: Learn German at a conversational level
4. Fitness: Drop 10 pounds of fat and put on 15 pounds of muscle
5. Physical Skills: Begin Krav Maga training and reach Level 2
6. Intrinsic Skills: Learn basic camping and survival skills in the woods

Even though in my first post I said that Jason Bourne's missions are not planned out, he obviously needed the skills to become the man he is.  In order for you to reach that level, you need to plan first.  But while you're reaching your goals, you'll notice how different your Bourne life is becoming and how much more adventure you're seeking.  In the next posts, I'll discuss each of the 6 categories in detail and how I went through them.