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Day 12
Create Your Bucket List
A few years ago, AoM guest writer Chris Hutcheson wrote a great piece
on writing your bucket list. After the article was published, Kate asked me,
“What’s on your bucket list, Brett?” To be honest, I had never given much
thought to what would be on my bucket list. Consequently, I could only
think of two things. At that moment I realized: 1) I’m pretty pathetic if I
could only think of two things I wanted to do before I die and 2) creating a
bucket list actually takes a lot more thought than I thought it would. And
so here it is more than a month later, and I still haven’t completed the task.
I’m sure I’m not the only man out there who hasn’t given much thought
to all the exciting and fulfilling things he wants to do before he kicks the
bucket. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who found Chris’s post really
interesting, and then proceeded to do nothing about it. So today’s task is
to turn our good intentions into something concrete by creating a bucket
list and taking the first steps towards actually completing one of the items
on the list.
Why Have a Bucket List?
As Chris pointed out in his post, when we were kids, we all had dreams
of cool and exciting stuff we wanted to do when we grew up. I remember
dreaming about going to Japan and learning karate. But something happens
when we become adults. We become more cynical and start thinking big
adventures aren’t prudent or reasonable. We think we’re too busy to do anything
extraordinary. And we’re surrounded by ordinary people who aren’t
doing anything special either. So we settle and stick with doing what’s safe.