What’s on your bucket list?

Bucket & Spade

We watched the film called “The Bucket List” last night focusing on things to do before you ‘kick the bucket’. 

Bucket List DVD

You can read the items on the bucket list featured in the film.

Here are suggestions for creating and managing your Bucket List from Lifehacker:

1. Make sure you get satisfaction and joy from your day to day stuff. Don’t suffer the 99% to get to the 1% you enjoy. Make the whole experience an enjoyable one.

2. Don’t buy into your ideas and turn them into goals right away. Mull them over. If you weigh them carefully, you’ll probably find you can improve, replace or cancel them while enhancing your overall life experience.

3. Make a plan and enjoy the process. Planning is not optional. It is a generally accepted as being a requirement by most of the experts in the field of setting and achieving goals.

4. Review list items often to make sure you still want to do it. The bucket list should be open ended. Maintain enough flexibility that you don’t become a slave to your own list. Make sure you keep working on adding new items while completing others.

5. Find ways to make each goal more meaningful. Include dimensions of quality within the items on your list. If you involve like-minded people in group activities, you’ll likely get much more from the experience than if you don’t. For solitary pursuits, take steps to ensure you get the most from the experience.

6. Document and share your goals for added enjoyment. If life is worth living, it ought to be worth writing about so commit some of these planning steps to writing. Writing the stuff down is a proven technique for turning goals into reality. Sharing them with others helps to cement your commitment to the goals and to bring others into the process. Don’t involve pessimists or nay-sayers in the process.

7. Don’t get obsessed with big “retail” goals. You are not required to share your secret fetish goals, or any goals for that matter, with others if you don’t want to. One strategy is to identify public and private goals and only share the public ones. Keep quiet about the private ones. Financial goals are often ones that are wise to keep private. But do celebrate your private accomplishments as you would your public ones. Don’t worry about it if they aren’t big or flashy.

8. Ensure your goals are consistent with who you are. Or reshape them to suit your style and preferences. For example, introverts and extroverts alike can enjoy a certain travel destination like say the Eiffel Tower, yet experience it quite differently.

It really got me thinking about the 101 things to do in 1001 Days Project. The mission is to complete 101 preset specific tasks in a period of 1001 days. 1001 days – that’s two and three-quarter years.  What do you want to complete in the next two and three-quarter years? This caught my eye because it is quite specific and futher into the future than every day to-do lists but not so far away like thinking about the rest of your life. I’m going to have some fun and start working on mine…

Here are some books that will help you get started:

Start with this – it’s only £3.79! 132 Seize the Days

Richard Horne’s 101 series are good fun!

To-Do List

Dream It. List It. Do It.

Travel books

1001 Books

Books

This is a nifty site for calculating dates that you wish to achieve things by.

Perhaps to start with, you could begin with 43 things!

For all you list lovers, here’s a couple of great sites for you:-

My 50

TaDa List

If you have your list for sharing, post me a link!