How To Create The Ultimate #Bucketlist

Everyone should have a Bucket List or a “To Experience” list! It keeps you young and invigorated, and it gives you more missions to complete, which keeps things nice and interesting. 

Bucket lists make you stop and think what you actually want to experience in this lifetime, and remind you that life is short and we should live it to its fullest. 

As you can tell, you are in the right place, visiting SunRiver’s #bucketlistliving blog. You can find no better advice than that of our SunRiver Bucketlist Living mindset! 

Don’t wait for that “perfect time” to begin living— we should be making bucket lists not because we’re all dying, but because we want to live!

Here’s How To Create The Ultimate #Bucketlist:

1. Give Yourself Time To Get More Creative

When you sit down to make your epic dream list, your first several items (if not close to all your items) will inevitably involve getting on a plane. Travel is an appealing idea, and that’s what most of us come up with when we’re sitting down coming up with all the greatest things we wish we could do before our time is up. 

But we dare you to dream bigger than that. Dig deeper. Because travel’s probably not the only thing you want more of in your life! 

Rather than sitting down and completing your bucket list within the hour, give yourself a few weeks to think about it.

Talk to other people or look at other lists for inspiration. Reading other people’s bucket lists can stir desires you never knew you had. Open your eyes for opportunities you see in your day to day life. You’ll undoubtedly come up with more than just backpacking Europe!

2. Name Your List

Number 2 of the How To Create The Ultimate #Bucketlist, is definitely more fun than anything else, but equally as important because of that fact!   

Making a bucket list is really about living life to the fullest with all the hours you have left on Earth (no matter how long or not-so that amount of time is). Therefore, coming up with an epic name will really set the pace of your inspiration to actually do the things on your list. 

Don’t feel obligated to name your list a “bucket list” – you can call it anything that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Here are just a few fun ideas:

• Life List

• Things to Conquer

• The Life Plan

• Living List 

• Amazing Experiences To Have

• Things To Achieve

• Lifetime To-Do List

• My Happy Places

Etcetera, etcetera… you got this.

3. What’s Your Timeline?

We can often find it pretty easy to sit down and write out our life goals, but we don’t always plan out when we want these goals accomplished, right?

Setting deadlines for your bucket list, or even creating what we like to call “Mini-lists” can help escape the “someday” syndrome– which is a common excuse for why you won’t begin today because you will get to it someday, am I right or am I right?!

The goal here is to push yourself, but also be realistic with your deadlines! 

There should be some items on your list that you can currently work on, that will be a different deadline than the “someday” or the “in your lifetime”.

Therefore, we recommend categorizing your bucket list, and creating mini-lists within your main list, for example:

• Seasonal Bucket Lists – Some items will only be able to be done in certain seasons, like snorkeling in Hawaii or try skiing for the first time. Each year create a winter, spring, fall or summer bucket list!

• Travel/City Bucket List – Keep the most difficult (and sometimes most expensive) part of your list, separate altogether. Then when the time is right, you can move these items out one by one onto your more short term lists as the time gets closer, or accomplish them based on the city (i.e. New York List, Thailand List, etc..)

• This Year’s Bucket List – Choosing your New Years Resolutions just got easier! On the first of the year break your list down to the items you want to complete in the next twelve months.

• Age-Related Bucket Lists – 30 Before 30, 40 before 40, or 50 before 50 – Choose goals that you want to do before reaching a certain checkpoint in your life.

• Categorized Bucket Lists – Categorizing your lists by subject is a great way to create mini lists, For example: Family and Friends, Just For Fun, Food + Drink, or Land/Air/Water List (activities that can be done in the air, i.e. skydiving). Then pick your relative dates or timeline for these categories!

You get this jist right? Get creative– it’s YOUR timeline and you can do this however you see fit, just don’t cheat yourself on doing the things you want to do.

Continue Shooting For The Stars

This might sound strange, but the goal of your bucket list is not to finish it. It’s to keep it going.

The best lists are constantly changing. Adding new items and checking off items you have completed, keeps the never-ending bucket list mentality going.

Keep your bucket list up-to-date by keeping a copy on your phone so you can add new items on the fly, when inspiration strikes!

Don’t wait for that “perfect time” to begin living— we should be making bucket lists not because we’re all dying, but because we want to live!

So what’s your next Chapter?