Do you have a goals or a bucket list?

[AnneSexton]

My goal today is to leave my apartment. Doesn’t really mater where I go from there as long as I wander around outside for a while.

Mission accomplished. I’m such a good girl. I deserve face kisses and belly rubs.

 

[thør]

 

[CandiCame]

Sort of, yes.
You should try a total bondage suit suspended from the ceiling with your eyes, ears and mouth totally covered and stuffed while breathing through a tube.

You're living the dream, Sissy.

 

[InternationalFunboy]

I have all sorts of goals, but they're practical stuff like: get somebody out to trim the trees next week, get the groceries, or untie my personal assistant.

Pink you should pick up the guitar and go with it. You can do it, and it can be greatly rewarding but understand that you'll never be done learning it. This is why I draw a distinction between goals and...things you wanna do: dreams, hopes, desires...whatever. Goals are often for things I don't wanna do. So you can take up guitar, that may be the fulfillment of a dream. A goal...well, that might be to practice it for 20 minutes every other day.

I think AnneSexton got it right.....a bucket list item is something you wanna do, but set against the ticking clock of your own mortality. Like travelling to India. At some point most of us will become too old to travel, and once you're that old, that dream is over. It's heartbreaking. It's why I wrote that piece Dreamers about a person whose dreams won't be left to rot. Like mancaves and assplay, I don't really like bucketlists.

If you want help with choosing a guitar PM me. I'm sure there are other players around also that would help you get a good instrument and pick strings and other gear that would work for you.

 

[MadameSarcasm]

I have an informal bucket list, and I have gotten to a lot of it. Just last weekend, for instance, I checked off my 49th state, so I have just one to go before I have visited all 50.

 

[Misshotndeep]

I only have two things left on my list. I will most likely never get either of them done but they are on the list.

 

[dagdag]

Goals; yes!
Bucket list; No!

It is one of the questions that I ask where they see themselves in the next 10 years to newbies! And, once I listen to them I also tell them that if they don't know where they want to be, they would be at a place where someone else thought for them!!!

 

[Misshotndeep]

Goals; yes!
Bucket list; No!

It is one of the questions that I ask where they see themselves in the next 10 years to newbies! And, once I listen to them I also tell them that if they don't know where they want to be, they would be at a place where someone else thought for them!!!

You do realize that no one ask that out dated interview question anymore? There are actually whole articles in The NY Times and business weekly that warn people to avoid those kind of outdated practices. They show that the brass is not up to the times among other issues. Just letting you know.

 

[BeautifulBlueSky218]

I've never been to California before. This is one of the places I've always been dying to go and visit. Hopefully one day, this will come true.

 

[Nightspeed]

There are two of my favorite bands from my feral youth of the 1980s that I have yet to see live:
W.A.S.P. and Manowar

 

[ericalauren]

I sometimes make a "to do" list after waking up. I don't have a bucket list, though.

 

[oggbashan]

I am too old and health-compromised to have goals.

I just live from day to day.

My bucket list was:
1. To survive until the last Christmas (three years after I was told to go away and enjoy my last few months becasue I was terminally ill). Done that.

2. To survive until our 50th wedding anniversary. Done that.

3. To survive until my 2022 birthday. Done that.

All I have left is just to keep surviving...

 

[Cindy027]

Do you have a goals or a bucket list?​

Yes

 

[Busty_sub]

Oh 90% mine are mainly travel related:

Do a cruise of the Fjords and see the northern lights (faild sering them in Iceland)
Go whale watching
Travel to Vietnam
Travel India by train
Travel to Cappadocia and go on a hot air balloon
See the great wall of China
Explore more of Japan
To stay in one if thise igloo rooms
Get a tattoo
To be a parent

 

[jackdaw]

Oh 90% mine are mainly travel related:

Do a cruise of the Fjords and see the northern lights (faild sering them in Iceland)
Go whale watching
Travel to Vietnam
Travel India by train
Travel to Cappadocia and go on a hot air balloon
See the great wall of China
Explore more of Japan
To stay in one if thise igloo rooms
Get a tattoo
To be a parent

I'm interested to observe re various of the locational items on your bucket list, that they would be located 'south of the river,' in a global sense!

Discrepancy aside, you have some impressive goals there!!!

 

[Busty_sub]

I'm interested to observe re various of the locational items on your bucket list, that they would be located 'south of the river,' in a global sense!

Discrepancy aside, you have some impressive goals there!!!

Thanks, I have a love of Asia. I'm not the type of person that can sit on a beach and I've travelled a fair amount Europe already.

I like experiencing different cultures and history, plus your money goes further.

I've always had an interest in Japanese and Chinese history too, so it would be nice to see the places I've read about.

 

[the_single_gal_unconfidential]

Just yesterday I booked a European vacation for August; landing in Frankfurt, renting a convertible and will be chasing euroskirt for two weeks.

An Evening with Dolf is penciled in, pending her taking me off ignore. I hope to sniff the nape of her neck.

take a side trip to cap d agde.
a good way to remember your trip.

 

[lanceGibs]

Thanks, I have a love of Asia. I'm not the type of person that can sit on a beach and I've travelled a fair amount Europe already.

I like experiencing different cultures and history, plus your money goes further.

I've always had an interest in Japanese and Chinese history too, so it would be nice to see the places I've read about.

Cum to Nepal
We love British tourists

 

[Nightspeed]

Aside from waking up every day, I've let all of my bucket lists go. I'm not trying to sound like a downer, but I know the few things I had left wouldn't ever come to pass, so out of an uncommon burst of realism, I said goodbye to them.

 

[Chernosoth]

I am looking ahead to reincarnation. I don't know if that happens but I might as well live like it does. I watch world events and think about possible futures.

 

[coati]

Yes, I have a bucket list:

1) I need more five-gallon paint buckets, so I can blend similar colors when painting a building.

2) I'd like to get a little pink plastic beach pail with matching plastic sand shovel for my granddaughter, because she will be going to the beach this summer.

3) Have you ever had to remove hot coals from the bottom of a wood stove to improve draft? A galvanized steel bucket is the best bet for safe removal of the coals from inside your home.

4) Since some folks on this confusing thread are talking about things they want to do before they die, think about getting a small gold-plated bucket for your post-cremation ashes.

 

[patient1]

There were things I wanted to do and see for many years. There is a mountain I wanted to climb, but medical complications have made that a foolish endeavor when I probably shouldn't even climb on a roof. I also wanted to spend a 4th of July watching fireworks shoot out of George Washington's head at Mt Rushmore. Now they are rarely held, and knowing that it would offend the tribes, I don't want to go anymore. Why should my happiness come at the expense of someone else's? There were a few other places I wanted to see someday, but my wife isn't as mobile as she used to be, and most of it wouldn't be the same without her.

Now my focus isn't so much checking boxes, doing certain things, going to particular locations. It's more about making myself or others happy, removing stress, having fun and just making the most of a day or a moment and having gratitude for that. I'm more serene than driven.

 

[thør]

 

[HampshireBoy]

When I was working I used to start the day with composing my list to achieve that day, as well as having longer term lists of "goals" - this week, this month, this year etc. These might include project deliverables, training needs or personal aims like "leave work in time to read to the kids" or "leave in time to take the kids to the beach".

I've never had a "bucket list" but do have a mental list of places I would like to visit and experiences I would like to have - at the moment we have six further trips of two weeks or more planned for this year, and are already penciling in next year's trips, so you could say that we're working our way through the list.

 

[someplace]

In 2007 a very close friend dropped dead of a heart attack. Totally unexpected and shocking. It affected both my husband and I deeply. Up until then, I'd hoarded airline miles for ....what? We slipped into a deep depressive funk. I decided we needed a trip to shake us out of it. We flew to the East Coast, stayed with some Litsters, met some others and ended up in NYC to see Les Paul before he died. It was a great trip and made us realize to stop putting off things that make us happy. We had at least one big trip or several shorters ones a year after that. It gave us something to look forward to, enjoy and remember. Blues had a friend he spoke with every day, especially during the lockdown. The friend said, "You know, we could do everything exactly right, stay home, etc., and when this is all over, go outside and get hit by a bus." That really resonated with him, especially because that ended up being his last conversation with that friend. The guy lived alone and either fell or had a medical episode of some kind, and hit his head on kitchen counter on the way down and died. My point is that none of us know how much time we have. Don't put off the things that make you happy. Find a way to make them happen. Blues and I caught covid from a doctor's visit. I made it and he didn't. Now I'm comforted by the memories of all the fun things we did. All the trips and people we met, concerts and moments spent with family and friends. We had paid for a cruise to 9 cities in the UK and Ireland before covid. The cruise was cancelled and then he died. I recently signed up to go on that cruise next summer. It won't be the same without him, but I need to make my own fun memories.