Bucket list! Do any of you have a life list? Or as the recent movie puts it, a "Bucket List"?
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By this, I mean a list of things you want to accomplish/do/have fun with before you die. I have had one ever since I started teaching the following exercise in my Resource Management class. The exercise comes from an '80s personal management guru named Alan Lakein:
1) Take a minute to just write down lifetime goals.
2) Take a half-minute to edit.
3) Take a minute to write down short-term (six month) goals
4) Take a half-minute to edit.
5) Now, imagine you have six months left to live and all your financial and social responsibilities to family (funeral arrangements, insurance, will, etc) are already taken care of. What do you want to do in these six months?
The idea that Lakein proposes is that, if your "six months left to live" list looks totally different than your "Lifetime" list, then you really ought to put in at least a couple of those "six months left" items in the lifetime list as incentive to use your time more wisely so you have time for the frivolity of the "six months left" list.
What do you think about this? What's on YOUR "bucket list"?