Here is one man who has achieved many of his. Randy Pausch is a computer science professor who is dying of pancreatic cancer. In a lecture delivered at Carnegie Melon University, he talked about achieving childhood dreams.
Here's the video and you must watch it. It's about 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you don't have time to watch it now, make time to watch it later.
I like the lecture so much that I also bought his book, "The Last Lecture". It moved me to tears.
The Last Lecture website.
