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Motivation. 525+ Ideas For Your Bucket List. This blog’s mission is to help people live their best lives, and creating a bucket list is a powerful tool for doing just that.

525+ Ideas For Your Bucket List

The 75 bucket list ideas you’ll find below were taken from my “Idea Book” series: 18 eBooks which together contain over 10,000 bucket list ideas. The “Idea Book” series is the result of extensive research into everything from the best festivals on earth, to creating rituals for strengthening your family ties, and countless things in between. It’s a cornucopia of ideas for you to pick and choose from in deciding what to do with your one wild and precious life (to borrow a phrase from Mary Oliver). In the “Idea Book” series you’ll discover all of the inspiration that you’ll need to create a bucket list that will make you feel happy to be alive!

You can get started with the 75 ideas below. Travel Bucket List 1. In order to really experience the Grand Canyon, drive to the North Rim, 45 miles south of Jacob Lake, AZ. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 30 Challenges for 30 Days. Did you know that it takes 30 days to form a new habit?

30 Challenges for 30 Days

The first few days are similar as to how you would imagine the birth of a new river. Full of enthusiasm it gushes forth, only to be met by strong obstacles. The path is not clear yet, and your surroundings don’t agree. Old habits urge you to stay the same. Ultimate Guide to Goal Hacking: 5 Scientifically Proven Methods to Accomplish Anything. **This post summarizes months of research on what goal setting methods actually work, and a new project I am starting to help everyone use these techniques in an easy and fun way** Which of your big goals have been on the to-do list forever?

Ultimate Guide to Goal Hacking: 5 Scientifically Proven Methods to Accomplish Anything

So often it’s those goals that matter to us most that seem just out of reach. If we want something really bad AND know the steps required to attain it, why do we still fail to do so? The answer is simple: we haven’t been using the right tools. Behavioral scientists have been trying to figure out our psychological relationship with goals for decades, and they’ve come up with some very actionable conclusions. It’s been proven that you can quadruple your chances of success with the goal hacks listed below (in order of least to most powerful). 1) Write it down The simple act of physically writing down what you want to achieve significantly raises your chances of success.

One study contacted thousands of people who needed flu shots. 2) Track it Track your goal. 8 Ways to Get a Morning Headstart. Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. - Richard WhatelyTweet Getting up early every day to start the day off right has a huge effect on the rest of our day.

8 Ways to Get a Morning Headstart

Unfortunately we can not always completely trust our morning selves, especially if we are lying in a warm cozy bed and there is no immediate pressure to get up (Or we can delude ourselves with pressing ‘snooze’.) To combat this, a healthy and balanced morning routine works wonders, and especially doing it for 30 days to make it a habit. A morning routine sets the tone for the whole day to come. 15 Big Life Insights I Wish I Knew at 18. One of the most popular posts of all time on HE is my 50 Life Secrets and Tips.

15 Big Life Insights I Wish I Knew at 18

However when I look back on that post, I see a fairly shallow and conventional list of recommendations. 10 Reasons You'll Never Look at Sunsets the Same Way Again. A thin blue line shoots across the horizon and that is the mark.

10 Reasons You'll Never Look at Sunsets the Same Way Again

You know the sun will eventually set underneath that line, but until then, the moment where it crosses that line, you are witness to one of the most beautiful sights in the Universe. Here are a few things these earthly wonders called sunsets have taught me over the years: 1) Everything Adds Beautiful pastel hues of orange and yellow shine bright around the sun, but as you expand your perspective the entire rainbow of colors is there.

Soft baby blue and turquoise clouds float calmly through the open sky. A sunset is not a single color, and every new color adds beauty.

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25 Best Books on Self-Improvement You Need to Read Before You Turn 25. I remember the first time I got my hands on a self-improvement book.

25 Best Books on Self-Improvement You Need to Read Before You Turn 25

I was baffled. At that moment I realized my fate was not set in stone. I could become my own drill master and coach. The books I read would set out the training course for me to overcome. Getting Started with The Feel Good Lifestyle - TheFeelGoodLifestyle.com. Welcome!

Getting Started with The Feel Good Lifestyle - TheFeelGoodLifestyle.com

My name is Phil Drolet and I’ll be your guide around here. First off, here are the top 3 things I believe in: 1) Live life to the fullest. We only get one shot at this great adventure called life, might as well make it an epic ride. :) The Color Run™ *5k of color running madness. Entrepreneurship and World Travel with Colin Wright. 99 Facts that Guys should know about Girls.