My Bucket List

I think it’s important to have a list of things that we’d like to do or accomplish as we each journey through our individual lives. It helps keep us on track with some of the bigger, or even smaller things that we’d like to try at least once as we go through. Remember, we only go through life once, better to do it now rather than leave it till later.

It can also be a useful tool to show those people around you just what sort of a person you are, and what types of things you have an interest in. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone who see’s your list goes one step further and offers to help you with one of your goals.

(I was out driving with a friend one day, and as we drove by the Airport, I commented on a nice looking helicopter out front, I commented that I’d always wanted to fly in one, but never had as yet. Turns out his company needed him to rent one the following week to video an area they were going to be laying some pipe. He offered, I accepted, and the following week I spend two hours flying in the very helicopter I had commented on.

Scratched one more off my list!

I’ll share with you my own list in the hopes that it helps you to either create your own, or simply gives you a few things you’d like to add to your own.

My Bucket List

Completed

Not Completed

1.       Make someone laugh till they cry 2.       Laugh till I cry 3.       Find true love 4.       Befriend someone I don’t like 5.       Befriend a wild animal 6.       Be celibate for a whole year 7.       Fly in a helicopter 8.       Write a poem 9.       Dive to 225 feet 10.   Feed a wolf eel 11.   Feed a wild seal 12.   Pet a wild skunk 13.   Catch a bird with my bare hands 14.   Catch a fish with my bare hands 15.   Dive in a sub-marine 16.   Dive a sunken ship 17.   Dive with sharks 18.   Go to a museum 19.   Go to a wax museum 20.   Go to a planetarium 21.   Do a puzzle 22.   Save someone’s life 23.   See a play 24.   Drive a hummer 25.   drive a corvette 26.   Drive an 18 wheeler 27.   Be more assertive 28.   Go to college 29.   Get a tattoo 30.   Type at 65 words per minute 31.   Learn a poem 32.   Climb a mountain 33.   Swim across Lake Okanagan 34.   Skydive 35.   make  a collage 36.   Write a song 37.   Find silver in the wild 38.   Find nickel in the wild 39.   Hunt once 40.   Eat what I kill 41.   Spend a month in the wilderness 42.   Visit a ghost town 43.   Spend the night in jail 44.   Own a house 45.   Own my own business 46.   Love a child 47.   Drive across Canada 48.   Try Sushi 49.   Drive at 170 MPH 50.   Achieve 230 pounds at 9% body fat 51.   Weigh 270 pounds of muscle 52.   Bench press 400 pounds 53.   Bench press 500 pounds 54.   Give up Christmas to feed the homeless 55.   Be Happy 56.   Shave my head for Cancer 57.   Own a horse 58.   Own a dog 59.   Build an amazing computer system 60.   Build a website 61.   Go to a rock concert 62.   Buy property on the moon 63.   Go ocean fishing 64.   Go to the Aquarium 65.   Read the bible 66.   Read the Koran 67.   Get married 68.   Volunteer at the SPCA 69.   Watch a movie entirely in subtitles 70.   Watch a movie alone in a theatre 71.   Talk to someone famous 72.   Do lots of good deeds 73.   Be in two places at once 74.   Sing Karaoke 75.   Change a diaper 76.   Go to a comedy show 77.   Give someone a chance 78.   Make another list

1.       Write a book 2.       Fly a plane 3.       Go up in a hot air balloon 4.       Fly a hang glider 5.       Para glide 6.       Swim with Dolphins 7.       See an opera 8.       Go to a ballet 9.       Solve the rubics cube 10.   Drive a Ferrari 11.   Learn another language 12.   Learn a programming language 13.   Learn sign language 14.   Sleep in a hammock 15.   Spend the night on the beach 16.   Freefall from 10,000 feet 17.   Ride a horse on the beach 18.   See the Grand Canyon 19.   Find gold in the wild 20.   Write a program 21.   Visit the Dalai Lama 22.   Have a family 23.   Learn to cook 24.   Learn to play an instrument 25.   Invent something 26.   Make a difference 27.   Ride a camel 28.   Go whitewater rafting 29.   Volunteer for Habitat  for Humanity 30.   Make a million dollars 31.   Be debt free 32.   Go up in the CN Tower 33.   Visit the Eiffel tower 34.   Visit the Louvre 35.   Visit the North Pole 36.   Visit the Pyramids 37.   Visit the Eiffel tower 38.   Visit the Empire State Building 39.   Learn how to juggle 40.   Play paintball 41.   Earn a hundred thousand dollars a year 42.   Sleep on a boat 43.   Go rock wall climbing

 

And I am continually on the lookout for new and exciting things to add to my list, so if you the reader would like to share your own “Bucket List” with us, I look forward to reading them!

Once again thank you all for reading TheHappySelf.com

Warren

Be my Valentine?

What is Saint Valentine’s Day?

Is Valentine’s Day another Hallmark holiday, or just another retailer’s way to make money or is there really something important to this day?

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.
Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.
Another legend is Valentine actually sent the first ‘valentine’ greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor’s daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed ‘From your Valentine,’ an expression that is still in use today.
While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial — which probably occurred around 270 A.D.

This holiday is more known more about sacrifice than love, but then who says love isn’t a sacrifice after all.

Inevitably always remember to love someone 365 days a year, not just on a particular day called Saint Valentine’s Day, show your love when least expected, not when society tells us too.

Daya