With inspiring Bucket List stories, the goal is to share once-in-a-lifetime experiences, people accomplishing them, and hopefully inspire readers to go out and do them.
Many people often say they want to travel somewhere, accomplish some feat, or desire to improve themselves. However, they lack the motivation. So with these inspiring bucket list stories hopefully you fill find ways to relate to others who are living out their bucket lists. Perhaps you will see that people just like you have found the reason to live the life they have always wanted to live and you can do it too!
Remember, “It is Better to Live One Day as a Lion, Than a Thousand Days as a Lamb!”
My First Year in the Woods – A Bucket List Adventure There’s a passage from Hemingway that I’ve often told people if offered a choice I would live in for eternity…. “Now that the bad weather had come, we could leave Paris for a while for a place where this rain would be snow coming down through the pines and covering the road and the high hillsides and at an altitude where we would hear it creak as we walked…
September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Wow. I can feel you losing interest. Ok, how’s this: I had a brilliant, sparkling, insanely talented, kind, magical friend and Ovarian cancer stole her from me. Don’t worry, you’re not alone, being more interested in a person than a disease. People do not like to hear about ovarian cancer. While she was sick, and after, I posted things on Facebook about her and her family, and pictures of the two of us….
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.” ― Benjamin Franklin One of the biggest challenges I often have when pursuing my bucket list is finding others to participate in the events with me. This challenge comes at me from multiple angles because everyone always seems to have something holding them back. Perhaps it is fear, but that isn’t usually the objection they present to me. When I ask for participants, cost or physical ability are given as…
“What would be your walk up to bat music?” This was the question posed to me and several others at a New Orleans Zephyrs minor league baseball game on a beautiful mid June night at the Shrine on Airline. Most of the others came up with interesting or fun song titles but I suddenly went blank! I sat there pondering this question for the rest of the game while critiquing the current batters choices as they came up to bat wondering why on…
Editor’s Note: The 4 Leaf Clover Project: Sharing a Little Luck was originally published May 2016 and has recently been updated and revised for accuracy and comprehensiveness. When I was creating my Bucket List Project several years ago, I remember being able to bang out 80+ things in the initial writing of my list in that old composite notebook. It came easy to put down travel, adventure, and even personal growth items on my list! But when I went to…
I have been very blessed and lucky in the first 40 years of my life to elude major illnesses or injuries. But as you get older you start to think & notice things, like Heart Disease, Strokes, & of course the most evil of them all: Cancer. Perhaps this is because I entered an era of my life where others my age started having to deal with those issues while those older than me, like my parents, seem to be facing those challenges a bit more regularly. Now from 20-35 years…
(Originally published on 03/23/14) So back on March of 2013, I went cold turkey but it wasn’t drugs, alcohol or my cigars that I quit! If you know me at all, you know that I will never quit smoking cigars. No, I quit using credit cards and collecting debt and now I am over 1 year Clean! In 1994, when I entered college, I had become a credit card user, instructed by my parents that I was only to use…
(Originally published on 09/17/13) Those of you who have recently had a chance to talk to me in person, know how much I LOVE talking about my Bucket List Project! It has been a motivating factor in my life for the past year in improving my Mind, Body, & Soul! But it has brought about a great Side Effect….Inspiration to Others! There is nothing cooler than getting an email, text, or Facebook message from someone declaring that they have either…
( This Post was originally published on 09/05/13) YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR IMPACT ON SOMEONE ELSE! Back in February of 2013, I was lucky enough to meet group of great people from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Among this group of people was a young woman named Amy Larsen. Though she was full of spirit, she seemed to be struggling with her life. So I shared the story of my Bucket List Project with her. Then something remarkable happened…SHE ACTED! Within the next couple of…