Building Your Bucket List

You can count on two sure things - death and taxes. In the movie "Bucket List," Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson make a list of all the things they want to do before they "kick the bucket." When people near the end of their life they are more often concerned about those things they did NOT do rather than the things they DID do. Make sure your life has no regrets. The most comforting thing you will have in your senior years are memories. Make them good ones. In life it helps to have concrete goals and to design a plan on how to accomplish those dreams. Here are my top five things that everyone should do before they die, no matter what age you are now, and how you can accomplish those goals too.

SEE THE WORLD/TRAVEL
Everyone should experience what life is like outside their own homeland culture and the more third-world, the better. My thirst for experiencing first-hand, what I only knew beforehand in books, was essential. There is nothing like walking through the museums, eating the native foods, smelling the exotic air, learning the language, meeting the interesting people. It is a small world after all and air travel is cheaper than ever. You can go with an educational or cultural enhancement group, church group, or the Armed Services. Do not dismiss the lowly road trip North or 3-day cruise South, you gain just as much from these adventures as you do going overseas - maybe more since there are so many to meet along the way.