The Importance of a Bucket List
Do you remember when you were a child and everyone would always ask you what you wanted to be when you grew up?
For me the answer was always different. It seemed to change from week to week based on what I was learning about in school or saw on TV. I was always getting these ideas on how cool it would be do be a fireman or a fishing guide. The list could go on for days!
I’ve been changing my life over the past year or so and decided to become a minimalist and work toward my ultimate goal of traveling the world as a vagabond for the foreseeable future. Thinking back to when I was kid, I was being asked the wrong question. What we should be asking kids is…
What do you want to do? What do you want to do after when you get old? What are you hobbies?
Things like that should be common questions in place of: What do you want to be?
That question implies you need to choose one job and work there for the rest of your best years. I don’t like this, not one bit. That is why I made a real bucket list. I’ve always had ideas floating around in my head but never wrote them down. Which turns out is the MOST important part!
You need to start thinking about your dreams and goals. I heard somewhere that…
A dream is only a dream unless you’re losing sleep over it.
Your bucket list doesn’t need include world travel or something crazy. It can include smalled goals. Things like paying off your debt, see your family more often, start saving money for your child’s college. The point is to make you start thinking about your happiness. Life is short and you should take advantage of every second.
I’ve posted my bucket list which can be found here:
Every time I see something looks fun and I might enjoy I add it to the list. I’ve the list public and once I complete a task, I can cross it off. This will hopefully give me a little more motivation.
Hello! I'm Adam Mayfield and
I am the aurthor of this site. Currently I'm living a minimalist
lifestyle. I've sold almost all of possessions and have a travel addiction I can't seem to shake!
Good stuff
I have a "101 goals over 1001 days list" which is kind of like a long Bucket List.
Glad you enjoyed. That's a lot of goals but looks like you have ample time to complete your task. Good luck on that!
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Hey Adam – I think you've got the right idea here. People are now looking at time as the most important determination of wealth as the more time we have, the more we can accomplish from our bucket lists.And even though everybody hears and repeats the phrase 'life is short' endless times during their life, I honestly believe that few people take its meaning seriously. After all, LIFE IS SHORT, so like you said, we are much better off chasing our dreams than striving to create a career (unless that is a part of someone's dream of course).
Life is very short and it's important to live it. What gets me is when I try to explain my thoughts on life to people and they look at me like I'm speaking an alien language. Maybe it's just the notion of really following your dreams blows their mind and turns their world upside down. Either way, your happiness in life is what really counts.
I've found it near impossible as well to explain this outlook on life to others and in the end have discovered that the best way is to lead by example. If you go after what really makes you happy, and you achieve that happiness that few others really experience in life, then you'll turn skeptics into believers!
I can't disagree with that at all. Lead by example. I'm already starting to see that in terms of my minimalism.
Here is a great site to create, manage and share you bucket list with friends and family.http://www.sharebuckets.comCheck it out.
Here is a great site to create, manage and share you bucket list with friends and family.
http://www.sharebuckets.com
Check it out.