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Create Your Bucket List Now

Sky Diving

What is a Bucket List?
A Bucket List is a list of things a person wants to experience doing before he kicks the bucket The term was taken from a movie by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, The Bucket List (2007).

Why Do You Need A Bucket List?
We live in the information age. Everyday, we are soaked up with advertising, show business, and other distractions. It’s very easy to forget what you really want to do in your life.

What significant things have you done in your life in the past week? In the past few months? In the last few years?

The aim of this project is not to instill death into our minds, but to create some sort of achievement measurement stick. Time is our most valued asset. This list, if you fulfill everything on it, would ensure that you have maximized your time on Earth and lived your life to the fullest.

I started to create and update my own bucket list a few times and some of them have been crossed off. If you’re curious about what’s on my list, you can view them at my bucket list page. I am continuing to add some items as I go along. I can never know what other things I might like to do later on.

Get to it
In life, achieving goals through small successes is very important. It gives a sense of fulfillment. Get a pen and paper and create your bucket list now. Use it as a roadmap to your life, live by it, and in the end you’ll be very much fulfilled.

While your at it, here are a few things that you could add to your bucket list:

  1. Skydive
  2. Swim in an ocean
  3. Be a firefighter volunteer
  4. Direct a movie
  5. Climb the Himalayas
  6. Eat balut
  7. Run a marathon
  8. Bungee jumping
  9. Write a song
  10. Win the lottery
  11. Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  12. Become a vegetarian
  13. Become a parent
  14. Become a blogger
  15. Perform on a soap
  16. Make your own detergent
  17. Be financially independent
  18. Own a franchise
  19. Try out fencing
  20. Go white water rafting
  21. Go to Disneyland
  22. Do 100 pushups
  23. Learn to play the guitar
  24. Learn to play the piano

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