The Bucket List (Image via RottenTomatoes.com)
You may be familiar with the 2007 movie The Bucket List (starring Morgan Freeman & Jack Nicholson) in which two incurably ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of things they want to do before they die.
Why should you want to create your own bucket list?
Mainly to motivate you to get out of your lazy chair and go for your dreams. Odds are that you’ll spend most of your time caught up in a myriad of day-to-day activities. If you don’t live your life guided by personal goals and plans, that is what usually happens.
So a bucket list is like a vision statement for your life. A master list for your life, if you will, with all your achievable and seemingly impossible dreams on it.
To make your own bucket list it might come in handy to think what you would like to achieve, what you would like to experience and what activities you’d like to take part in and skills you’d like to develop.
You can find these in fields like:
- Career
- Charity & Community
- Creative
- Education
- Family Life
- Health & Wellness
- House & Home
- Love & Relationships
- Miscellaneous
- Personal Finance & Wealth
- Sports & Adventure
- Travel
- Etcetera
I added some examples to get you inspired.
(PS: Don’t overdo it. Start by adding 30 to your list)
- Learn Spanish
- Climb a volcano
- Go white water rafting
- Lose 10 kg
- Buy a house
- Start exercising regularly
- Run my first marathon
- Go vegetarian for a month
- Obtain my nursing license
- Perfect my chili recipe
- Take my mom to the best US antique mall
- Write a novel
- Pay off all my debt
- Climb to the top of a volcano
- Travel Canada
- Meet my sponsored child
- Start a company
- Donate blood
- Declutter my home
- Learn to play oboe
- Fill a journal with inspiring quotes, lyrics & images
- Skinny dip in Iceland
- Get drivers license
- Visit New Zealand
- Donate bone marrow / stem cells
- Learn to belly dance
- Meditate at least 3 times/week
- Buy someone’s holiday groceries
- Clean my room
- Visit iconic locations of WWII
- Find a new job
- Go parasailing
- Don’t complain about anything for a week
- Lose 10 more pounds
- Make a bookshelf
- See the Northern Lights
- Own a plantation to offset our carbon footprint
There are various websites that might help you along in creating your own ‘bucket list’. I didn’t list them in any particular order. You are invited to find out if one suits your needs best.
Bucketlist 10,000 things to do before you die.
http://www.bucketlist.org
Day Zero is a place to record your goals, discover new challenges, and gain motivation to do them. Build a list of 101 things you want to do – then track your progress over the next 1001 days.
http://www.dayzeroproject.com
(Special attention http://www.dayzeroproject.com/feature/ for some inspiration)
My Life List®, the premiere social network for goal achievers. The tools you find here will help you create your Life List, act on your goals, and celebrate your accomplishments.
http://www.mylifelist.org
43 Things What do you want to do with your life?
http://www.43things.com
MySomeday. Dream Plan & Achieve.
http://www.mysomeday.com
Reaperlist. What will you do before The Reaper Comes?
http://reaperlist.com
Popclogs create your bucket list of ambitions, experiences and goals that matter to you, and see how many you can make happen just by having a list!
http://www.popclogs.com
SuperViva – Make a Life List and Find Things To Do for Your Bucket List
http://superviva.com
After you finish your bucket list, here’s what you should do next:
- Act on your goals by creating a plan! Plan out a successful path (with the necessary steps/to do’s) towards these goals
- Engage with your family and friends. Ask them to support you and hold you accountable
- Review your list regularly.
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