Wilt Chamberlain is known for many things - for being a dominant NBA player, including scoring 100 points in a game, for having played for a year with the Harlem Globetrotters before he became eligible for the NBA, and for claiming to have slept with 20,000 women. My favorite fact about Wilt is that at the time of his death in 1999 at the age of 63, he was learning to play the saxophone. Even as we age, I believe it is important to try to learn new things.

It’s not quite time for New Year’s Resolutions, but I’ve been thinking about setting some personal goals for 2007. These are three ideas I have for something to achieve in 2007:

1. Learn to play a musical instrument - guitar, ukelele or clarinet. I bought a guitar a few years ago, but haven’t learned to play it. The ukelele seems like an easier alternative, and with the clarinet, I’d be prevented from singing along, which is a good thing.

2. Work to improve my golf game. I like to golf, but play mostly on executive 3 and 4 par 9 hole courses, and would like to improve to where I am comfortable on a standard 18 hole course.

3. Become fluent at another language. I speak Spanish well enough to get by while traveling in Costa Rica, but my grammar is atrocious.