Sunday, June 13, 2010

Your Bucket List!

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What is in your Bucket List?

-Owning Real Estate
-World Travel (back to Maui for me)
-Financial abundance
-Find an amazing relationship
-Luxury Car
-Own a Harley
-Help your kids financially
-Make a difference in your community
-Create multiple streams of income
-Perform Stand-up comedy
-Run a marathon
-Healthy lifestyle

We all have the list, but we often don't physically write down the list.  Why?

Kids do it with their Santa list.  They write down everything that they want.......it is usually a really long list.  As adults, we assume or realize that we cannot have everything we want, so we stop dreaming and wishing that it can happen to us.  Kind of sad, isn't??

In the 2007 movie, "The Bucket List", (with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson), the two characters meet each other in a hospital room as they are both fighting a terminal illness.  As they build a close relationship, they decide to create a list of the things that they want to do before they die.  Their, "kick the bucket list"

It is a great movie, as they travel to amazing places and learn a tremendous amount from each other, yet discover what LIFE is truly about.  They make positive changes in their life near the end, and reconnect with people that are in their life.

So, why is it that most people think about their Bucket List when their life is near the end?

There was a quote I heard approx. 20 years ago, (Dick Lohr) which stated, "We should live our life on purpose, not by accident."  This quote has always stuck with me for all these years.

If we create our Bucket List today and attempt to accomplish each item on the list, with a lifetime ahead of us, would we not have greater odds at achieving the list, and truly "Live Life", than if we waited until it was too late?

What's in your Bucket List?   Start building it today!....and realizing the joy of achieving the outcome of the list while you are alive and well.............!

Make it a great week!

"Helping you to the next level"

1 comment:

Craig Watson said...

Great reminder to have purpose in our days, weeks, months, lives Mike. Funny enough, the bucket list was on TV this weekend and really got me thinking of what I want to accomplish before kicking the bucket... and low and behold the blog of the week is another reminder - guess I should just get er done!