Over the holidays, there was hooplah over a new movie called “The Bucket List.” Sharing a hospital room, two older cancer patients become friends and decide to fulfill their personal desires through “The Bucket List” before they “kick the bucket”.
Although “The Bucket List” is fictional, there are some famous stories of lifelists that were actually inspired by close brushes with death. Lifelists - those rosters of things you want to do or places you want to visit in your lifetime - have become immensely popular. You don’t have to wait for a catastrophic even in your life to create your lifelist. Now is the best time! You can always amend it whenever you want. That’s the fun part.
If you’re suffering from confusion about what freedom is going to mean to you, perhaps you need a lifelist.
Certainly not a replacement for those daily things - spirituality, family, friends - that are meaningful, but additional things, events and memories that are going to make your life spectacular.
Use your life list as the roadmap for a more joyous, fulfilling life. There is plenty of research about why we should have a lifelist and make goal accomplishment a priority if we want to be happier.
Goal accomplishment is recognized as a major force in the lives of almost all 2%ers.
A lifelist is one of the best ways we can establish our priorities and experience the spillover effect of joy from one area of life to another. Some believe that writing down our goals even once can have the result of giving us more hope, less goal conflict, and more engagement in life. If you’d like to get started on creating your own life list, there are many popular sites that show you how to start.
Or better yet, you can do like I did in The Voice Said “Obey”. You can just do it. Just take action. Learning about making a list isn’t making a list. Making a list is making a list. Just grab a scrap of paper and a pencil and do it.
-James D. Brausch
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It is sad that people have to make such lists. The book 1000 places to see before you die has the idea, make a list starting today and get out there - see things and do them. 26 years ago I made a list of things I wanted to do - fly a chopper (not just in one), drive a plane, parachute and winter over in the antartic were on my list. I still have not gone to the south pole, much less winter over and I did not travel up the Amazon (except the dot com one) to its source. The rest of the things on this 18 year olds list are done and every time I finish one thing I try and add a new one. Every time something interests me I do it. Took me 11 months to become a dive master and I was a rappel instructor because my boss asked “hey, anyone wanna…”
Like Richard said, he made a list 26 years ago and over his lifetime and has achieved many of the things on there. It all starts with making that list and figuring out what you want to do. I wanted to suggest a website, http://www.elifelist.com you can use as a tool to keep track of your list and share your achievements with your friends as you ‘become a dive master’ or ‘rappel instructor’. Good luck with your lists.