Just do it!

The idea of a bucket list isn't foreign to most people.  Many have made lists of things they would like to do in their lifetime.  There was a movie dedicated to living out a bucket list.  Even if it isn't written down, almost everyone has those things that they hope to have the chance to experience.

Your list may lean toward travel or adventure.  Others may have a list of things they would like to learn.  The truth is that a bucket list is extremely personal.  I made mine when I was in college.  Which means that I didn't take into consideration my family, where I would live or my income.  I just wanted to do these things at some point in my life.

For a few years, after college, I tried to do at least one thing on my list a year (my list is rather long with about 150 items).  I went skydiving, rode in a helicopter, got my motorcycle license, went scuba diving and got married.  Then, of course, life got in the way.  I moved a few times and couldn't find my list.  Then, it would surface again and I would read it over thinking, "I need to do something again."

My list is again missing after a recent move.  But, I can't get it off my mind.  Last weekend I took an incredibly impulsive trip to New York with a girlfriend.  I had read about an exhibit that I really wanted to see.  I mentioned it to a friend of mine and she said she would go.  Her fiancee suggested that we use his points for one night in the hotel and Mark's for another.  We found a weekend that worked and booked the trip.  We were in New York in less than 3 weeks after deciding to go.  The only thing we had planned was the exhibit.  The rest we just went with the flow and had the time of our lives!

I've been over analyzing things for so long.  I have things on my list I could start working on today.  My copy of War and Peace is upstairs, I want to learn Chinese, I want to read the Bible from cover to cover,  I want to learn more about professional sports, I want to learn more about classical music.  The list is full of things that I want to learn.  These don't cost me anything and I have time.  So why haven't I done any of these?   I just haven't.

But that stops today.  I might start something and decide that I really don't want to do it...and that is okay.  But at least I will have started and made an adult decision.  So, no thinking...Just do it!!