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A New Kick on Resolutions As we near the end of January, what has happened to your New Year’s Resolutions? If you’re like many people, your 2008 squeaky-clean resolutions have likely gained some (or a lot!) of tarnish and dust already. You’ve cheated on your diet, lapsed in your exercise program, and your avowal to keep your desk clean and organized is already buried under your 2008 mess. What is it about New Year’s Resolutions that tend to set us up for failure? We even laugh about and compare how little time it takes us to slide back into our pre-New Year routines and habits. We may be a bit chagrined over our lack of willpower, but nobody really holds us accountable – after all, they’re only New Year’s Resolutions, right?
Enter The Bucket List. Yes, The Bucket List is a newly released movie starring the venerable Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. If that actor power alone isn’t enough to entice you to see the movie, perhaps the idea of The Bucket List will. The Bucket List is a list of things that you want to do before you “kick the bucket.” You may think that creating a list of “To Dos Before I Die” wouldn’t necessarily take a front seat in your day-to-day life. Death is so often a “someday” concept for us. In the movie The Bucket List, both characters who meet while in the hospital, learn that they both have a limited time left to live. They then join forces and embark on an adventure to do, experience and cross off the items on their Bucket List. In doing so, in the time that they have left, they discover what it means for them to live. Hollywood mush in all it’s glory? I’ll leave that for you to determine; however, before you decide too hastily, allow yourself to consider writing your own Bucket List.
Here are some guidelines:
1. Consider that your “someday” death may actually be sooner rather than later. In fact, none of us really know when our time is up. 2. When writing your Bucket List, write it as if you have 6 months to a year to live. 3. Since you’re allowing a limited frame of time in which to experience and cross off your Bucket List, really focus on what is the most important to you. (Yes, fitting into your skinny jeans is an admirable goal; however, is it one of the most important things for you to do in your life?) 4. When writing your list, what items affect you emotionally? What items cause you to pause in thought, choke up your throat, cause your breathing to become shallow or bring tears to your eyes? Write those ones down for sure. 5. Consider working “backwards.” Imagine your funeral, the loved ones delivering your eulogy. What do you imagine them saying about you? Do you see a lot of “loose ends” and words unsaid, acts unforgiven or dreams unrealized? Or do you see a live well lived, well loved and fulfilled? What needs to go down on your Bucket List in order for that to happen? 6. Ask the child within you. As you, the adult, consider asking the child within you if there’s anything that he or she would like accomplished or fulfilled? 7. 7. Consider your loved ones. Is there anything you’d like to do with them or for them in order for your life to feel complete? Is there anything you’d like to say to them so that there are no loose ends or lost words when you (or they) die? 8. Consider your daily activities - the day-to-day things that take up your time and energy. Are those daily activities moving you towards a greater sense of completion and satisfaction in your life or do they cause you to become further behind in accomplishing what’s important to you? 9. Consider that your Bucket List is nothing at all like a New Year’s Resolution. In fact, resolve to kick those resolutions out altogether! 10. Keep your Bucket List with you. In your pocket, your wallet, your purse, your car, etc. Anywhere that you’ll see it daily and be reminded what it’s for. When the paper wears out, re-write it and keep going – you may even find that you have more to add!
The beautiful thing about your Bucket List is that you don’t need to wait for January 1 to write it. Do it when you’re inspired. Do it after seeing the movie. Do it after reading this article. Just be sure to do it. |
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