The Bucket List

Forever I have been enamored by reading articles and hearing cool stories of people who "walked the walk" and "talked the talk", took a leap of faith, jumped outside the box and truly took a pen and slashed a line through a number of things on their Bucket List.  I am so incredibly frustrated with myself that I think constantly of doing cool things, cool lists and NEVER put them to practice.


I am constantly hearing friends say, "Oh, that's on my bucket list" but my question is do they, do I, really know what our bucket list consists of and do we really ever put pen to paper, finger to keyboard and make things happen?!?!?!?


I'm thinking that everyone I know needs to do their own bucket list.  I was recently talking to a friend about her daughter and her friends who were working on a bucket list of everything they wanted to complete before they graduate from college.  I'm so jealous I can't push the rewind button on that one!


My definition of a Bucket List is to keep me dreaming and motivated.  The cool thing is....a bucket list can be anything you want it to be from taking adult tap lessons to climbing Mount Everest.  


Let's face it -- Death bites!  Now get to doing the alternative -- LIVING!


NAO BUCKET LIST
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge

Read the entire Bible consistently instead of jumping from old to new and new to old

Travel to all 50 states

Live by the sea

Learn to Tango

Send my parents on a luxury vacation

Take a cooking class

Achieve my ideal weight

Make someone’s dream come true

Kissing on the kiss cam at a basketball game

See Greece

Alaskan cruise

Ride a gondola in Venice

Explore Italy and Rome with the one I love

Learn how to build a website

Do something completely crazy and out of character

Visit the leaning tower of Pisa

DIVE!

Tour Napa – Cakebread winery

Travel around San Francisco in a cable car

Go Caribbean Island Hopping

Learn how to play Chess

Attend the Kentucky Derby in a fabulous hat

Make a positive difference in at least one person’s life - COMPLETED OCT 2010 (Thanks Kathi Tatum!)

Become an early riser

Learn not to take what others do or say personally
Eliminate diet cokes from my life!
Completely train my dog in the correct manner

Completed 

Backpacked in Europe - 7 countries

Bought my own house with my own money

Financial and Personal Independence after my divorce

Hiked in the Swiss Alps

Stood in the Coliseum in Rome

Hung out at the Eiffel Tower

Took in Vatican City with awe

Flew in a helicopter/Over the Grand Canyon (2 for 1)

Won over a grand in Vegas

Redid an entire room in my house COMPLETELY!