I’m going to try to post every day this week. All the posts came from an experience I had this weekend and have a similar theme.
To help me with tomorrow’s post, I really need some help though.
Could you, in the comments below write out your bucket list (or maybe just the first twenty or so items on it).
“What’s a bucket list?” I hear you ask.
A bucket list is simply the list of things you’d really like to see/do/accomplish before you, um, kick the bucket.
If you have no idea what would be on your list, imagine that you just found out you were going to die in 14 days time. What things would you like to do before you go. What are those things that have always been dreams of your but which you’ve never gotten around to doing or achieving?
If you could share your list, I’m going to talk about my bucket list, your bucket lists and why I’m thinking about these things tomorrow.
THANK YOU!
Travel with my husband ~ cruises, Hawaii, Austraila, Asia, Alaska. I wanna go!
Eat at all the fanciest restaurants in town ~ budget & diet be damned!
Give money to charities. Impact someone’s life that way.
I guess what you are calling a bucket list, I call my dream list. Most of my dreams will take more than 14 days, but here they are.
1) Become a mother.
2) Become a healthy weight.
3) Write a novel.
4) Visit my state’s Capital.
5) Visit the nation’s Capital.
6) Visit Frankenmuth, Michigan
7) Go on a vacation with my cousins
8)organize my home
9) Have my Womeh’s prayer group over for lunch.
10) Have the Knights of Columbus and their families over for pizza and pop.
11)Learn to speak a second language fluently
12) See all of Shakespeare’s plays. (SEE them, not read them. Shakespeare wrote these to be seen as a performance, and while there is value in reading before or after seeing the performance, to only read the play is incomplete.)
13) To write a letter to every friend and cousin telling them why I value them.
14) To interview my aunt, uncle, and cousins about memories they have of our deceased relatives and compile it into a sort of scrapbook of words.
15)To host a party that parties like it’s 1999.
16) To teach again.
17) To learn to tat.
19) To make an afghan of crocheted granny squares.
20) To sing karaoke
I have several more. If you read my post a couple weeks ago (ahem), you know that I’m keeping a dream list.
Sorry Pete, I didn’t see this yesterday so i hope I’m not too late to say what I want to do before I become The Late Stephen.
1. Plant trees in every continent.
2. Get a private pilots licence
3. Find a cure for Alzheimers disease.
4. Find a cure for cancer
5. Get a round tuit.
I have my Life List published on my blog at mommadjane.com/life-list if you’d like to read it all. Here are a few items…
1. Interact with White Tigers
2. Own a monkey
3. Sponsor a child’s wish through the Make-a-Wish Foundation
4. Mother/Daughter trip to Paris
5. Take a photography class/workshop
6. Visit The Ellen Show
7. Publish my memoir
8. Have Oprah read, mention or even think about my memoir
9. Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
10. Take ballroom dancing with partner
11. Take hip-hop dance class
12. Learn some form of martial arts
13. Learn to meditate
14. Visit all 50 states
15. Learn French
16. Foster a child
17. Sit on the beach in Hawaii and watch the sun set and rise
18. Speak to a gymnasium full of high school students about teen pregnancy prevention
19. Complete a 5K at a continuous steady jog
20. Row a boat
Go to Ethiopia again, and stay longer.
Share Ethiopia with my kids.
Sign my name in my published book.
Be with my parents when they’re dying.
Spend a month, at least, in Italy with my husband.
Celebrate my 60th wedding anniversary, with my husband.
Learn to cook, do art in an Italian monastery.
Swim with sharks (in a cage, silly)
See my siblings ALL share a good laugh together again.
Dance at my children’s weddings.
Learn to pray spontaneously.
Spoil my grandkids.
I wrote a post on this awhile back:
http://www.tonyjalicea.com/2011/03/living-the-dream/
Here are mine:
Run a million dollar company
Give away half of what I earn
Speak in front of 50,000 people
Minister in 50 countries
Plant 5 churches
Perform a creative miracle
Give a word of knowledge to an influential non-Christian
Counsel & restore marriages/divorcees
Mentor young men
Create a discipleship course focused on relationships
Laugh or cry every day
Learn to play guitar/drums
Write 100 songs/poems
Host a radio show
Photograph a wedding
Have a photograph published in a newspaper/magazine
Act in a movie
Sing on a record
Visit all 50 states
Surf in Hawaii
Hike up a mountain
Surf and ski in the same day (in New Zealand)
Speak 3 languages fluently
Write 10 books
Have an article published in a newspaper/magazine
I was able to cross that last one off this year!
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