WHAT’S ON YOUR BUCKET
LIST?
Charlie
and I were recently talking with a banker friend of ours about some of his
clients who are planning for retirement.
Not surprising to us is that travel is the number one thing on most
people’s bucket list. However, most
people don’t write down their bucket list of things they want to do, and have
no idea how to budget for those big travel items on their list.
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| Omaha Beach in Normandy |
Should
you create a wish list of to-dos before dying as the characters Edward (Jack
Nicholson) and Carter (Morgan Freeman) did in the movie “The Bucket List”? Assuming the answer is yes (not sure why it
wouldn’t be), what’s the best way to do that?
John
Nelson, the author of “What Color is Your Parachute? For Retirement” said, “We
create a bucket list because we want to be happy. Some of the latest research on happiness
suggests we need to pay attention to two very different kinds of happiness: ‘experiencing’
and evaluating,”
I
suppose I have two lists: My I Have and
My I Want to do…
If
you haven’t written down your Bucket List, start out with what you have done
and then move on to what you want to do.
Here some of the things are my lists.
I
HAVE…
1.
Kayaked
in Ketchikan, Alaska
2. Written
three books
3.
Stayed
in a 400-year-old farmhouse in the Black Forest
4.
Watched
a meteor shower from a ship in the South Pacific
5.
Taken
our grandchildren to Disney World without their parents or siblings for their
fifth birthdays
6.
Walked
on Omaha Beach in Normandy
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| Eiffel Tower in Paris |
7.
Learned
to play the clarinet and piano
8.
Climbed
Acropolis Hill to the Parthenon in Athens twice
9.
Viewed
Paris from the Eiffel Tower
10.
Watched
a lightning storm at sea
11.
Seen
the Mona Lisa in Paris and the Sistine Chapel in Rome
12.
Visited
the graves of Michelangelo, Dante, Marc Chagall, Rafael, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn,
Catherine Howard, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary,
John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Handel, and many others
13.
Ridden
in a gondola in Venice.
14.
Seen
Michelangelo’s David, statue of Moses, and the Piata
15.
Started
a business
16.
Visited
Russia
17.
Gone
whale watching
18.
Visited
the White House
19.
Met
someone famous – Most notably, we had dinner at Reba McEntire’s home.
20.
Visited
32 of the 50 United States, including Hawaii and Alaska
21.
Taught
myself an art from scratch – first there was crochet, then knitting.
22.
Visited
the birthplace of my ancestors (England and Scotland)
23.
Been
to all of the U.S. Virgin Islands
24.
Visited
Kiribati (the first place that celebrated the Millennium)
25.
Put
my feet in the waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific, as well as the Caribbean
Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
2.
Go
to the Holy Land
3.
Be
the keynote speaker at a major conference
4.
Visit
Iceland
5.
See
the ball drop at Time’s Square on New Year’s Eve
6.
Take
a river cruise in Vietnam
7.
Rent
a villa in Italy for a month
8.
Take
my grandchildren to Washington D.C. and show them why we live in such a great
nation.
9.
Take
painting lessons
10.
Lose
weight (don’t we all that that ambition)
11.
Visit
Antarctica
12.
See
a volcano while it is erupting
13.
Write
a cookbook
14.
Stay
in a chateau in Provence in France
15.
Visit
the Galapagos Islands
There’s
so much more that I want to do, and so little time. Now, you know what’s on my list. What’s on yours?
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