Why not revisit and update your bucket list?
Don't have a bucket list? Then now is a great time to start one!
There are several ways to put your list together. I got most of this from a website - found here. I'll give you my synopsis of her ideas, mixed in with a few of my own...
1. Name your list - It helps you focus... and it's kinda fun
Her suggestions sound something like this:
- Life List
- Dream List
- My Lifetime Goals
- Things to Conquer
- The Life Plan
- My Life’s Must Dos
- and obviously... My Bucket List
This sounds silly, but really, what good is the list if you can't find it?
3. Pick the length of your list.
I did not do this, and can totally see where maybe I should. I just add to (and delete from) my list as I feel the need. As I've gotten older my goals and values have changed and so has my list.
4. Find Ideas
I have come across several different articles lately that speak to writing your own eulogy. While this may seem a bit cryptic, it is actually a very interesting exercise that helps solidify what you want your life to reflect. While this seems like a morbid and even alarming thing for me to do considering my history, it actually helped me realize that I do not want to die by my own hand. I really do not. I absolutely do not want the last memory the people I love have to be "why?" Thinking about my own funeral, who will be there and what I want them to be left with, made me realize that I do not want them to be filled with confusion and despair. I want them to be filled with happy memories.
On a much lighter note... a Google search on "bucket list ideas" will return pages and pages of ideas.
5. Create categories
This is a must for me. Partly because I have a terribly difficult time focusing on big picture sorts of things and partly because I obsess about things. So, If I am dreaming of travel, I will update the travel section of my list. If I am stretching my creativity, i will update that part of my list.
The thing I like most about my list is that it has grown over time to be a pretty accurate representation of what I want my life to reflect. It is a decent picture of who I am and what I'm about. Sometimes I need to be reminded, ya know? My list is deeply personal and is in no way a suggestion of how you should do yours. I've been adding to mine for years.
Okay, so here is mine... just as an example... oh - I highlight things as I "mark them off" and I put the things I'm working on or plan to "mark off" in the current year in bold print. So, if something is highlighted and in bold, I did it in the current year. Obvi you can do yours however makes you happy.
BUCKET LIST
Be a Better
Me
Live
so that it truly matters that I was here and leave a legacy that will carry on
when I’m gone
Be
“that person” who changes someone’s life
Apologize to someone I wronged terribly
- 2010
Go
on a mission trip overseas
Be a Big Sister with Big Brothers/Big
Sisters of Mississippi - done 2011
Pay
for a strangers groceries (actual groceries, not just gum and milk or
something)
Donate my hair – 2015
Give
my car to someone who needs it rather than trading it in on a new one
Make Christmas Cookies and take them to
the ICU waiting room on Christmas Eve-2015,2016
Write an encouraging letter to someone
in prison- done 2014
Serve food in a soup kitchen – 2016, 2017
Tape a dollar bill to a vending machine
with a note that says...”this is a random act of kindness, your snack is on me
today!” Done 2014
Adopt
a missionary for a year and send the family gifts, letters, cards, etc. to
encourage and support them.
Win someone to Jesus - 2015, 2016, 2017
Write a letter to myself and open it in 10 years
(Open December 2024- it’s in the lock box at the bank)
Complete 24 Thirty Day
Challenges in 12 months
Dissolve negative opinions about myself- 2018
Dissolve negative opinions about myself- 2018
Say “no” to those who abuse me or my
time and mean it.- 2018
Get
the house clean and organized (If your house is a mess, your insides probably
are too)
Do
something I’ve never done before once a month for 12 consecutive months
Create
a personal Mission Statement
Start a business –KW Hair Design 1999 -
Southern Breezes - 2016
Fire
my most annoying client, team member, or nasty friend- 2018
Thank
God for 100 things in one day
Go Offline one day per week
for 52 consecutive weeks
Start
a support group for Suicide attempt survivors
STOP
lying to myself- 2018
Identify and write a description of my ideal self - 2018
GET OUT OF BED before 5am
every single day for 30 consecutive days
Try
something that I don’t think I can do every month for 12 consecutive months
Identify
and work on negative traits-2018
Figure
out something I’ve wanted for a long time…and get it
Find
a role model- 2014
Be
confident
Family
Make
my first marriage my only marriage
Have
a 50th anniversary
Be a mom –-1999, 2005
Raise
confident, independent kids who love Jesus (Brian
– 2018) (Izzy isn't grown yet)
Keep
Learning
Read
the entire Bible
Memorize
the Sermon on the Mount
Read
52 books in a year
Take an IQ test – Done 134- 2015
Learn
to speak Spanish
Learn
American Sign Language
Learn how to Crochet- done 2014
Learn how to tat- Done 2015
Learn to decorate Cakes – Done – 1994
Type
over 50 WPM
Learn
to play the piano
Learn
a new skill every month for 12 consecutive months
Figure out what I want to do when I grow up- 2018 - counselor
Figure out what I want to do when I grow up- 2018 - counselor
Go
back to college
Get
my Bachelor’s Degree
Get
my Master’s Degree
Painting
Sell my paintings in a store – Done
2013
Sell paintings in a craft
show
Have
a painting featured in an art exhibit
Paint
with oils
Paint
with watercolors
Paint a landscape- Done 2017
Sell a painting for $100 – Done 2017
Sell
a painting for over $250
Crafting/Hobbies
Make
a quilt
Crochet an afghan- 2016 – baby Afghan
counts, right?
Sell a cake I decorated –2009
Sell an Afghan – 2017
Learn to knit
Learn to sew
Take
an art class - 2010 - Easely Amused counts, right?
Learn
Calligraphy
Beat Cancer
Survive Cancer – done – 2009 and 2011
Sing in a choir again (post cancer)
done 2013
Sing a solo (post cancer) - done Easter
2014
Be 2 years Cancer Free- August 31, 2013
Be 5 years Cancer Free- August 31, 2016
Be
10 years Cancer Free – August 31, 2021
Writing
Be a regular contributor to an online
devotional site- 2015-2017 (ICDevos)
Be
a guest contributor to a magazine
Enter
a writing contest
Blog once a week for 52
consecutive weeks
Settle on title and idea for book – Joy
in the Valley (When God’s Plan is Painful) – done 2015; The Day I Didn't Die - 2018
Get
laptop and writing program
Set
a page per week goal for book
Write
book
Have book published (goal – 2025)
Have book published (goal – 2025)
Buy
my own book off a shelf in a bookstore
Be a guest contributor on online
devotional site(s) – 2015, 2016, 2017
35,000 visitors on ITB –December 2017
50,000 visitors on ITB
100,000 visitors on ITB
50 followers on ITB 2016
75 followers on ITB
50,000 visitors on ITB
100,000 visitors on ITB
50 followers on ITB 2016
75 followers on ITB
100
followers on ITB
250
followers on ITB
500
followers on ITB
1000
followers on ITB
Write
an e-book
Random
See Trans-Siberian Orchestra- 2017
Finish a whole tube of Chap
Stick –May 2015
Have my Christmas Shopping
done by October 31
Make a gingerbread house-2016
Get a small tattoo that
means a lot December 2015, 2017 (not so small)
See
a tornado – on purpose, not because it is heading for my house
Learn to use chop sticks - 2017
Sing with the Mississippi Chorus – Done
1996
Have a Christmas Cookie
Decorating party with my kids (and friends)
Lay in the middle of a road in the middle of the night– done – 1985
Go on a vacation with my friends
–January 2013
Be
in a theater production
Host a cookie exchange- 1999
Be a class officer my senior year - 1990
Be a class officer my senior year - 1990
Tie a cherry stem in a knot with my
tongue- 1989
COMPLETE
Project 365
Sit on a Jury – 2017
Try
all 31 flavors of Baskin Robins Ice Cream
Be Section leader in Choir -1990
Be Section leader in Choir -1990
Have
a cutting garden
Have
a productive herb garden
Have
an outdoor living space (covered porch, fire pit, chairs, table, etc.)
Have a vegetable garden – 2016
Make
compost for my gardens.
Build
raised beds for gardening.
Have all the "divas" greatest hits tapes - 1993
Design and Build my own Paint Shack (goal for 2020)
Have all the "divas" greatest hits tapes - 1993
Design and Build my own Paint Shack (goal for 2020)
Physical
Climb a rock wall – Done 2002
5k –2012
Color Run (Color Me RAD) - 2013
½
Marathon (Goal 2019)
Warrior
Dash (Goal 2019)
Tough
Mudder (Goal 2020)
Have
my dream body (again) (36/24/36)
Weigh
140lbs (again)
Drink 128- oz. of water a
day for 4 weeks.
Go to the gym (and actually
exercise) for 6 weeks straight 2015
Go to the gym (and actually
exercise) for 12 weeks straight 2017
Size 6 (again)
Handstand
Travel
Float
in the Dead Sea
Walk the Via Delarosa
Sit in the Garden of Gethsemane
Visit
the Grand Canyon
Go white water rafting – Done
2002.2003.2004.2014. 2015.2016
Climb a waterfall – Done 2003. 2014. 2015. 2016
Touch
an iceberg
See
the Northern Lights
Take
and African Safari
See Cats – on stage -done - 1990
See
a musical on Broadway
Visit
Ground Zero
Visit
a volcano
See
Whales (live ones - not on Animal Planet)
Go on a Louisiana Alligator / swamp
tour – 2013
Read :
1.
Huckleberry Finn
2.
Absalom! Absalom!
3.
Schilinder’s List
4. Chronicles of Narnia
5.
David Copperfield
6. Old Yeller
7.
A Tale of Two Cities
8.
The DaVinci Code
9.
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
10.
Winnie the Pooh
11.
Life of Pi
12. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
13.
Mary Poppins
14.
Delirium
15.
Dune
16.
Count of Monte Cristo
17.
Oliver Twist
18.
Dracula
19.
Ulysses
20. A Christmas Carol
21.
The Color Purple
22. Charlotte’s Web
23.
The Velveteen Rabbit
24.
Braveheart
25. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
26. Tinker,
Tailor, Soldier, Spy
27.
Interview With a Vampire
28. The
Outsiders
29.
A Game of Thrones
30.
Jane Eyre
31.
Gone With the Wind
32.
Alice in Wonderland
33. The Wind in the Willows
34.
Crime and Punishment
35. The Divergent Series 2014
36. Hunger Games Series 2014
37.
Great Expectations
38.
Harry Potter Series
39.
Wuthering Heights
40.
1984
41.
Animal Farm
42.
Catcher in the Rye
43. The Hobbit
44. The Lord of the Rings
45. To Kill a Mockingbird
46. The Grapes of Wrath
47.
The Great Gatsby
48.
The Never-ending Story
49. The Princess Bride
50. Where the Red Fern Grows
51.
Unbroken
52.
Of Mice and Men
53. The Lord of the Flies
54.
Little Women
55.
Pride and Prejudice
56.
Moby Dick
57.
Hamlet
58. Twilight Series 2015
59.
The short second Life of Bree Tanner
60.
The Sound and the Fury
61.
The Pursuit of God - Tozer
Complete
my bucket list
Well, that's all I have for today!
Let me know what you put on YOUR Bucket List!
Much love and Big Hugs!
K
Well, that's all I have for today!
Let me know what you put on YOUR Bucket List!
Much love and Big Hugs!
K
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