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I don’t want a bucket list in the classic form. That type of list is too nebulous. It implies “I want to do these things before I die.” But life has no clear ending. So, I sat down and wrote fifty things I wanted to do during the decade of my own 50’s. Though I was actually born January 18th, 1964 I decided to make January 1st, 2014 my start date.
Here is what I learned in the process of putting my goals to paper. I didn’t have an entire list of 50 things right off the top of my head, so I went to the internet and googled “Bucket List.” I found pages and pages of other folks bucket lists. I read through them for ideas. What I found out was I have already lived!
Let me explain. I started keeping track of all the things on OTHER bucket lists that I have completed. My list of things I have already done was at 254 before I got tired and stopped searching. What I have taken for granted, other people still dream about doing. That fact brought me great comfort that I haven’t wasted my first 50 years, even though I had never written my own bucket list.
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I Have Really Lived!
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I am a list writer and love the visual of checking things off. Therefore, I am combining my desire to keep a personal blog with a way to keep track of accomplishments. Here is what I have to look forward to (or back at) in my 50’s.
Note: This list is version 2.0 as I like to call it. I have learned a few things in the last three years of doing this and I wanted this list to reflect my growth. For one thing, I looked a little closer at the motive behind each goal and decided I could be flexible and adjust the goal to still meet the intention (spirit of the goal), yet not do the original task. Here’s what I came up with. February 1, 2017
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Zipline over Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada
50 Things in My Fifties
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The Decade of Joy
WEBSITES I WANT TO CREATE
#1 Hello World, It’s Me CREATED in 2014
#2 Blessings from the Kitchen CREATED in 2016
THINGS I WANT TO ENJOY
#3 The Hill Cumorah Pageant, New York COMPLETE 2019
#4 Attend four other live performances COMPLETE 2019
#5 Invite 50 new people over or out to dinner to broaden my circle of friends
VACATIONS I WANT TO TAKE
#6 Visit a Civil War historical site
#7 Travel the Mormon Trail from Palmyra to Nauvoo
#8 Sleep in a vacation rental treehouse
#9 Experience Niagara Falls COMPLETE 2019
#10 Rent a Houseboat
THINGS I WANT TO HAVE
#11 Own vacant land COMPLETE 2017
#12 A healthy retirement account
#13 A one year’s supply of food for 4 adults
#14 Own a home with shop COMPLETE 2019
HOW I WANT TO IMPROVE
#15 Read 10 books for the knowledge COMPLETE 2018
#16 Sew a quilt COMPLETE 2017
#17 Print a hard-cover book of memories for my grandchildren COMPLETE 2021
#18 Research and take an ancestral name through the temple
#19 Attend the temple 150 times
#20 Read El Libro de Mormon out loud, the whole thing
#21 Read the scriptures every day for 365 days straight COMPLETE 2016
BECAUSE I AM A WIFE AND MOTHER
#22 Find something Douglas and I both enjoy COMPLETE yet Ongoing 2017
#23 Take whole family on a vacation COMPLETE 2019
#24 Organize family history papers and photos
#25 Transfer home movies from tape to DVD
PROFESSIONAL GOALS I WANT TO ACHIEVE
#26 Earn $500+ in a years’ time on Perfect Party Games
#27 Post for sale an original item on any of my websites
#28 Write an E-Book
#29 Become a Certified WBE (Women’s Business Enterprise) COMPLETE 2014
#30 Pass the Septic Installer test in Texas COMPLETE 2021
HOW I PLAN ON STAYING HEALTHY
#31 Hike once a year on a trail longer than 3 miles that I have never traversed
#32 Keep my weight below 150 pounds
#33 Run a 5k COMPLETE 2015
DO AN ORDINANCE IN A NEW LDS TEMPLE EVERY YEAR
#34 Vancouver, B.C. Canada COMPLETE 2014
#35 Rexburg, ID COMPLETE 2015
#36 Las Vegas, NV – Snowflake & Monticello, UT – San Antonio & Dallas, TX – Albuquerque, NM COMPLETE 2016
#37 Oklahoma City, OK COMPLETE 2017
#38 Cedar City, UT and Tucson, AZ COMPLETE 2018
#39 Palmyra, NY COMPLETE 2019
#40 Baton Rouge, LA and Houston, TX COMPLETE 2020
#41 Lubbock, TX COMPLETE 2021
#42 2022
#43 2023
FEARS I WILL CONQUER
#44 Take a hot air balloon ride
#45 Go zip lining COMPLETE 2015
#46 Climb Independence Rock, WY COMPLETE 2019
#47 Experience I-Fly COMPLETE 2014
#48 Rock repelling
#49 Hike to Delicate Arch in Arches National Park COMPLETE 2017
#50 Parasail over an ocean
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