Living Your Legacy – aka The Bucket List
LIVE YOUR LEGACY … AS WELL AS LEAVE ONE
Even if your hands are shaking, And your faith is broken,
Even as the eyes are closing, Do it with a heart wide open.
If you’ve ever read any book, audio or attended an event to do with Personal Development and Self Improvement, then you would have come across the notion of Building Dreams, Setting Goals, Making Plans and Taking Action.
As a student on a continuous journey of self improvement for greater self fulfillment (which I believe is the premise of our human existence), I’ve always be conscious of Dreams, Goals, Plans and Action. BUT like many people, I have not always had a sense of urgency to fulfill and complete some of my bigger ones, because although we all know that eventually we do ‘kick the bucket’, we still think and act like we have the time to ‘get around to doing it’ … whatever ‘it’ might be.
About 5 years ago, I read a quote from James Dean, that not only resonated with me, but the point of it stuck with me … and it stuck so powerfully that I made it a kind of mantra for my life that I also share with my clients when they first join our client ‘family’. He said “Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you ll die tomorrow.”
It was from pondering (meditating) on this quote that I got it – that life is about LIVING OUR LEGACY … NOT JUST LEAVING ONE!
And so I started to dream bigger and with those dreams, my goals grew and my Plans grew and myActions grew – I actually found my desire and enthusiasm to do more, have more and be more meant my energy grew and my love of life, of people, of experiences and of myself grew. My list of things I want to LIVE or experience grew and before I knew it, I had a flood of ideas about experiences I wanted to fulfill while I had the opportunity to do so.
Then I saw a great movie that gave me the idea to start ticking off those life experiences I want to achieve. That movie is called “The Bucket List”.
Funny movie “The Bucket List” – it brings home the need for every one of us to Plan Great Life Experiences and Move Forward in Your Life to Reach the Summit of Self Fulfillment through experiences. Here’s the trailer for the movie – if you have not seen it, I recommend you get it out for a laugh.
“WE LIVE, WE DIE … AND THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND ‘N’ ROUND”
Do you have anything on your “Living Your Legacy” Bucket list?
If you have not started a Bucket List yet, I dare you to do it now!
Grab a notepad right now … go on … number the lines 1 – 100. In no particular order, start listing things you desire to experience and continue to experience in your life. No matter how big or small, worldly or personal, start your list.
All outcomes start with a desire and that desire comes from your imagination. Turn your thoughts about your desires into a list you want to experience in your life. You stand a much greater chance of getting what you want, when you can actually identify it first. THEN, all that’s left is the plan and action to get it.
I would love you to share any of your Bucket List items in the “Comments” section at the end of this blog post. Your ideas might inspire me and others too … and also share anything you’ve already ‘ticked’ off your list too.
The theme song for the movie “The Bucket List’ is “Say What You Need to Say” – written by John Mayer. I want to share it here with you, along with the lyrics so you can print them out if you want to. I thought you might also like to see how the power of the story of the Bucket List and it’s concept ‘touched’ John personally.
Here is the song “Say What You Need to Say” by John Mayer (below it are the lyrics for you to read and print out)
SAY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY BY JOHN MAYER
Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put ‘em in quotations
Say what you need to say
Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you’d be better off instead,
If you could only . . .
Say what you need to say
Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over
You’d better know that in the end
Its better to say too much
Then never say what you need to say again
Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open
Say what you need to say
Here is a video interview with John, sharing his view of the movie and the concept and how he was touched by it – infact, the movie script brought him to tears (a big admission from a mega star, that I really like)
I have written this blog post after achieving another item on my “Living My Legacy” Bucket List today. I hope you are inspired to start ’Living Your Legacy’ too - make your Bucket List, then go out and experience it!
Please leave your thoughts, comments and feedback below.
I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.
With love, Jen xo
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