Have you created your bucket list?
I wrote my first bucket list when I was like 47 years old. Then about 2 years ago (13 years later) I found that list!
I had packed it away in an old journal and I found it when I was cleaning out my office closet. (It’s good to do that once in a while.)
There were 25 items on the list and as I read through them I began checking them off and guess what? I ended up checking off something like 18 items on the list that I had achieved!
The weird thing was that some of them were just total wishes that I didn’t ever really believe would come true. And I didn’t have the list up on the wall so that I could read it and remind myself what was even on the list.
For example, one of the items was to take a long motorcycle trip across the country. I hadn’t even ever ridden a motorcycle at that point! I had just gotten my first scooter.
Yet I had that dream and wrote it down. Then almost 10 years later, in 2017, Paul and took off on an 8,000-mile journey across the country and back, on our trike. It really was the trip of a lifetime.
I also put on the list that I wanted to walk the Appalachian Trail. But when I found out it took 4 to 5 months to walk it I let that one go. I didn’t want it that bad! There were several items on the list I totally let go and that’s okay.
The point is to dream and have adventures. No one ever said on their death bed, “I wish I had worked more or harder.”
Take a few minutes this weekend and write a list of some of the adventures you want to have in this life, places you’d like to see, or activities you want to experience.
Then choose one and make it happen in the next 6 months.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, life is short. Live it full out with no regrets.
Do what you want to do and soak it all in. From the little to the big, it’s all worth it.
Today, I took the morning off to take my granddaughter Adalie to The Story Barn in Somers, CT where we made Firefly jars, danced amidst the bubbles, and walked in the woods. It was a good day.
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On the podcast this week . . .
My guest on the podcast this week decided at 72 years young to walk the El Camino, known as the Camino de Santiago, which encompasses several routes in Spain, France ad Portugal. Over 200,000 people travel it each year and today on the podcast, Kathleen Donnelly is going to share about some of her adventures on the trail. It took her 66 days of walking to complete it.
Kathleen also shares her recovery from food addiction and is quite an inspiration. You don’t want to miss this episode.
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Here’s what Douglas Schwann had to say:
