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Ideas for a Bucket List

Ideas for a Bucket List
“Every man dies – Not every man really lives.” ~ William Ross“The only people who fear death are those with regrets.” ~ Author Unknown A few days ago, I was surfing online when I came across someone’s bucket list. It quickly inspired me to create my own list and write an article about it at the same time. What’s a Bucket List? If you haven’t heard about the term “bucket list”, it is a list of all the goals you want to achieve, dreams you want to fulfill and life experiences you desire to experience before you die. Why Create a Bucket List? If you don’t live your days by personal goals and plans, chances are you spend most of your time caught up in a flurry of day-to-day activities. Even if you frequently live by goals or to-do lists, they are probably framed within a certain social context e.g. performance, career, health. It’s just like planning ahead all the highlights you want for YOUR whole life. To get the free ebook, enter your name & email: Create Your Bucket List 1. How about you? 2. Related:  Self-ImprovementLifestyle Info

47 Decent Lifestyle Design Resources | Clay Collins Blog 79 Email Share Email Lifestyle design (LD) has a lengthy past but a short history . The art of (sometimes radical) lifestyle configuration, however, has been practiced for quite sometime by liberated people from all walks of life. The growth of the Internet has enabled those loaded with cash to disconnect from the 9-5 without disconnecting from their Porches, Louis Vuitton gear, mobile cash cow businesses, and brokerage accounts. The Internet’s rise has also allowed persons from less auspicious backgrounds (like myself) to live creatively without making seemingly prohibitive income sacrifices. Here’s a list of lifestyle design resources that might be of help to the interested. Here goes: – The Painless Escape from Email that works with the 4-Hour Workweek, GTD…and your sanity Dreamlining Worksheet (highly recommended) Ideal Lifestyle Costing Worksheets Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business Gap Years for Grown Ups Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance

Caribbean Cruise and Tours 101 Ways To Live Your Life To The Fullest “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs (101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time) How do you feel about your life today? If your answer to any of the above is a no, maybe or not sure, that means you’re not living your life to the fullest. This is a list of 101 timeless principles I use to live my best life, and I hope they’ll help you to do so too. Here are 101 ways to live your life to the fullest:

Fake it Till You Make it: 10 Ways to Feel Confident (Even When You Aren't) “Original Fake” Photo Credit: courtesy of MashKulture Is your self-confidence natural, or a daily struggle? Many people’s confidence naturally wavers from day to day, leaving them too timid or confused at just the wrong time. Whether you are naturally confident or could use some better eye contact with your life, setting in place a few simple strategies goes a long way to stoke your inner confidence. If you think you’re not especially smart or capable, or that failure is a given no matter how hard you try, you’re right. And if you believe you’re brilliant and can accomplish anything you set your mind to, you’re right. Amplifying your inner confidence is like any other skill you develop; you can do it in a blink. Same with confidence. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. You don’t have to follow all 10 of these tips, but they are starters that will help you find your internal confidence and boost your sense of self belonging. Confidence is the key to EVERYTHING. Related Articles:

How To Be a Better Person: 101 Ways “We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.” - Max Depree How does one become a better person? I remember when I was studying in university, I didn’t like myself very much. I was rude, selfish, emotionally stingy, self-centered, judgmental, highly critical, very obnoxious, and arrogant. When I think back about it, a lot of that came from insecurity with myself – a lack of self-esteem. Subsequently, I decided to work on becoming a better person. Today, I’m a lot happier with who I am. In this massive list post (yet another in the 101 tips series! If you just follow a tip a day, you’ll go a long way toward becoming a better, more likable, person. Here goes:

10 Causes and Cures of Unhappiness One of the quickest ways to spread the sunny rays of happiness over your life is to directly confront the negative attitudes darkening your doorstep. While neither universal nor all-encompassing, the joy-stealing attitudes and corresponding cures listed below are common enough to warrant a thumbtack on the wall of many lives, including my own. 1. Jealousy: Destroy the green monster by celebrating the successes of others. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Unhappiness is both self-defined and self-imposed (meaning a person who believes himself happy is), so if you’re capable of controlling your mental state without examining its constituent elements, I stand in awe of your mental abilities and politely leave you to your devices. On the other hand, if you’re like most people I’ve known (myself included) and occasionally feel unhappy for reasons that cannot be swept under the rug, review this list of 10 self-destructive attitudes and corresponding cures. Jul

move nourish believe 137 Ways to Pamper Yourself, Lift Your Spirits, or Recharge Your Life Photo: tibchris / Creative Commons Is your tension helmet screwed on too tightly? Are your cranky pants giving you a wedgie? Perhaps you need a distraction or you want to beat a craving. Maybe you need a big life change. Or maybe you just need a nap. Whether you're looking for a boost to soldier through a tough day, pampering on your downtime or a thrilling life experience, this list has you covered. See also: 99 Ways to Use This Winter to Have a Blast, Comfort Yourself, or Take Control of Your Life Connect 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Aromatherapy 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Seek Water to See, Soak, Splash or Swim austinevan / Creative Commons 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Touch 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Spa or at-Home Treatments Unique Hotels Group / Creative Commons 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Taste 37. 38. 39. 40. Outdoor Rest and Relaxation Will Merydith / Creative Commons 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. Indoor Rest and Relaxation 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. Savor a Warm Beverage 57. 58. 59. 60.

21 days Eternel Présent image17 Illuum | The Site of Happiness EAT CLEAN 2 How to Take More Action: 9 Powerful Tips “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” Leonardo Da Vinci To get things done you need to take action. Things seldom happen on their own. But taking action can be difficult and hard. Here are 10 tips that you’ll hopefully find useful. 1. This will help you snap out of over thinking and just go and do whatever you want to get done. This is probably the best tip I have found so far for taking more action since it puts you in a state where you feel little emotional resistance to the work you’ll do. One of the simplest ways to connect with the present moment is just to keep your focus on you breathing for a minute or two. 2. If you tell a bunch of people that you are going to do something then it will be hard to not do it. If you have a hard time getting going with something get some support. Think about how you can involve others to help all of you to take more action. 3. 4. 5.

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