#31DayReset Day 18: Make a Bucket List

This post is Day 18 of the 31 Days to Reset Your Life Challenge for 2011. Learn more and sign up for the program here.

If you’ve seen the movie The Bucket List starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, then you already know what this post is all about. If not, here’s a synopsis:

“Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list.”

Today, you’re going to make your own bucket list.

Estimated Time to Complete: 30-60 minutes

Imagine you’ve just been told you’re about to die in six months. Make a list of all the things you want to do, see or accomplish before you die. That’s it. Go.

Take Action and Reflect: When you’re done, please share your “bucket list” with us in the comments! If you blogged about today’s assignment, please post the link in the comments so we can read it!
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26 comments

  1. Notice the dude with the low sperm count or fucked up sperm was the asian………………………….. Think its cas there dicks are small?

  2. It’s funny how making this list started out as a solemn kind of thing, and then (once I realized I want to be a little naughty before I go) morphed into something really fun.

    ***Travel to Europe and ride the Eurail; see Spain, France, Italy, Greece, UK and Ireland, Switzerland*** this has been my #1 dream for years and I WILL DO IT!!
    *Set foot on the African continent at least once, preferably to whale watch and otherwise explore South Africa, see the slave castles in Ghana, or explore North Africa (Egypt, Morocco, etc.)
    *Visit the temples in Thailand
    *Publish at least one thing in a major literary magazine like the New Yorker
    *Write something inspiring that I dedicate to my nephews
    *Make sure my family members know I love them
    *Sing well in public
    *steal a lawn ornament from a rich neighborhood and replace it with a plastic flamingo (random, I know)

    and more. It’s a really long list of detailed, random things. =)

  3. My Bucket List:

    * Get married
    * Payoff all debt
    * Travel around the world
    * Spend time with close family and friends
    * Go skydiving
    * Take a cooking class
    * Style someone famous
    * Open a boutique
    * Live in a different country
    * Go bungee jumping
    * Visit Niagra Falls
    * Meet my celeb crush, Usher
    * Take a pole dancing class
    * Accomplish my life mapping goals
    * Teach young ladies self-love
    * Taste food from all over the world
    * Go deep sea diving
    * Learn to surf
    * Learn a second language
    * Get a tattoo
    * Go to the Opera
    * See a play on Broadway

  5. In six months I would forget all rules and just live! I would stay in a beach house and wake up every morning to that beautiful view, just soaking it all in. I would be happy with just that but I also wouldn’t mind traveling to other places as well. I love beautiful scenery so I would travel to all the most beautiful cities in America and for once travel outside of this country! The destination would have to be Jamaica. I would love to dive into the ocean and view the world underwater- I have always loved acquariums but I want to see the real thing! My last six months would be pure excitement and adventure because it is nothing like feeling that freedom to go wherever and do whatever without thinking about the cost or whatever. All of that would go out the window.

  6. Here’s my blog post: http://wp.me/p1rrQZ-3s

    1. have children
    2. get married
    3. buy a house
    4. pay off all my debts
    5. run a marathon
    6. advocate for awareness and research for my medical condition, become a spokeswoman for it
    7. complete the USF MNA program (currently in)
    8. see my sister get married and have kids
    9. see my kids get married and have kids
    10. go to Spain
    11. visit the East Coast, especially New York and Washington, D.C.
    12. go on a hot air balloon
    Read my latest blog post…31 Day Reset: Day 18 – Make a Bucket List

  7. Initially when I thought about this, I thought it will be easy because there is so much I want to do…but then again 1. I realized it was such a short period (6 months) and 2. Most of my desires right now are more focused towards career advancement and personal development…

    And so there goes THE list:
    - Get closer to God ( It will be now or never at this point)
    - Give a TED talk
    - Spread the most LOVE I can to family members, friends and even strangers
    - Let go of all the burden and baggage I have carried from my past, in others words: FORGIVE
    - In return, Ask for forgiveness from all the people I have/or may have hurt in the past
    - Get in touch with all the people I have talked to in a while
    - Go back to my passion and start taking dancing classes again
    - Finally visit Trinidad during Carnival Season and “Fête” with my dancing buddy

  8. My Bucket List:

    Go to Pamplona Spain for the running of the bulls

    Attend a Laker Game, All Star Game, or NBA playoff game.

    Visit: Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, Aspen Co, Sub-Saharan Africa, Costa Rica, Hawaii, and Brazil.

    Cut ALL ties with toxic people.

    Make a will.

    Spend time with the people most important to me and let them know how much they mean to me.

  9. The list:

    ” Looking back – I am glad that ”

    So the bucket list is (my interpretation) and if I am thinking of the movie – what to do before I die. Therefore, I am going to look back and say in this life/this is what I wish to accomplish.

    Saw Prince live
    Removed myself from the chains of working for someone else..which allowed me to:

    Serve where the need was greater with Habitat International
    Facilitate people to follow their own dreams
    Travel abroad and eat and eat and eat
    Maintained a healthy diet of fresh fruits and veggies
    Was an example of what unconditional love and looks like
    Was an example of how freeing being non-judgmental /even in the face of dogma
    Was taught how awesome it was to laugh and be loving constantly
    Used my gifted talents to be adventurous, to learn, and teach

    Took plenty of pictures
    Was silly every chance I got
    Tried many many many foods (i ate and ate and ate..lol)
    Stopped being so shy
    Learned to purge negative influences

    and mediated in every act…..

    • My bucket list focused on enjoying important relationships in my life, traveling, taking care of my spirit and supporting others

      Trips- England, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Brazil, Cuba and Morocco (by myself) Ghana to visit family with my mother and brother.

      Monthly Meditation Retreats

      Volunteer with women’s shelters, youth orgs and NGO initiatives that I support

      Quit my job

      Dress Beautifully and boldly every day

      Shave my head (always wanted to try rock that look never thought it would look good on me)

      Spend quality time with my loved ones

      Perform one of my poems live

      Go to as many concerts, plays and galleries that I could with artists that I love

      Approach men that I am attracted to and if they also had interest in me I would enjoy my time with them

      Enjoy as many activities that will make me smile, laugh and feel grateful to be alive in that moment

      :D

  10. Trips: Greece, Italy, Ghana, Spain, Japan

    Meet: President and First Lady Obama, Angela Davis, Andrew Young

    Accomplish: earn B.S in Chemistry, MPH in epidemiology, Ph.D in epidemiology or pharmacology, find a cure for HIV/AIDS, every type of cancer (at least be able to find a significant part to lead the rest of the research and getting closer to a cure), have articles of work publish in different mags.

    Personal: get married, have 3 kids, own a home, own a business or franchise, start an empowerment center for young girls (accept all ethnicities, christian- based)

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  12. My Bucket List If I had only 6 months to live

    • Go to Japan, China and India
    • Meet Oprah, Michael Jordan, Angela Davis and Afeni Shakur
    • Confess all my sins and secrets
    • go to the races and casino to make risky bets
    • Go on a crazy shopping spree
    • Eat EVERYTHING I WANT
    • make arrangements to donate my organs and find the people I want to donate too( Idea for the movie 7 Pounds)
    last few days become a superhero and catch as many child molesters and rapist I could

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  14. My bucket list is kind of silly, especially when I see what others wrote. Sigh. Here goes:

    +Travel abroad!-India, Thailand, France, England, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Trinidad, Jamaica, Tanzania, Cuba, Japan
    +Stay at the penthouse suite at The W
    +Meet my dad’s sister and brother and my cousins from his side of the family to forge a stronger connection to that side of my family
    +Skydive
    +Trapeze class
    +Horseback riding
    +eat at Chez Panisse
    +eat at El Bulli
    +See FELA!
    +Visit the Louvre
    +Dance on top of a bar and/or table (I know, I know)
    +See a show at the Apollo Theater
    +See a baseball game at Camden Yards
    +Fly a plane
    +See Prince live
    +See Robert Glasper Experiment live
    +Visit Niagara Falls

    • Love your bucket list!!! Im sure you will accomplish everything on it!! Keep living!!

  15. I was surprised to find that there really isn’t alot that I want to do (probably ’cause what I want to do is alot). But my bucket list mainly entails: Making peace with my family, developing relationships with some of the really cool people in my life, see the world, and learning stuff. Oh yeah, and I wanna go to a few concerts (India Arie, John Legend, Yo Yo Ma), learn an instrument and celebrate New Year’s Eve in all of the major places listed on TV.

  17. This was a little hard for me to write. I’m pretty young and I realized that most of the things I really want to do / accomplish will take a lot longer than 6 months. Things like going to professional school in the medical field, being able to pass on a successful business to my future children (I wouldn’t even have time to conceive and birth the children or the business within 6 months, lol)

    Anyway,

    here’s what I was able to come up with:

    *visit family in Nigeria, Italy, UK, etc.
    *month-long trip to Latin American country
    *spend lots of quality time with immediate family

    • I don’t think [and someone please correct me if I'm wrong] it was intended to mean, only what you could fit in 6 mos, but more to say now that you know you only have 6mos what are the type of things that you’d look back and say “man, I really wish I would’ve gotten the chance to do this” So go ahead and pass that business down to your future babies!

  19. YOur trip sounds absolutely fabulous. I so admire your choice to take action. All the best!

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