{"id":2962,"date":"2013-09-29T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2014-09-28T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T21:24:14","slug":"36559-beyond-the-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36559-beyond-the-bucket\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#59: – Beyond the Bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I have a couple international trips coming up to countries that I\u2019ve never visited \u2013 England and Peru. This got me thinking about Stonehenge and Machu Picchu. I didn\u2019t seek these destinations in order to complete a bucket list. (One trip is for an international meeting and the other is to meet our son who we haven\u2019t seen in person in 10 months.) But this got me thinking about bucket lists and how I keep hearing people talk about sites they want to see before they die. Of course photos usually follow on Facebook to validate their accomplishments.<\/p>\n

This is not bad. In fact Jim and I love to travel, meet new people, and experience different cultures. In fact we\u2019ve been to 49 of the 50 States and at least 25 foreign countries. Many of these trips have been to visit our children who each spent time doing volunteer work after college \u2013 often in interesting, if not exotic places. (When I\u2019d tell friends that our daughter was in Peace Corps in Mali, and they responded with \u201cHow wonderful!\u201d I knew that they probably thought I had said Bali or Maui. :-?) These have always been enriching experiences (except when our car breaks down in the USA or we get sick in India or Africa). Still it got me to thinking about what I want to accomplish before I die.<\/p>\n

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Stonehenge<\/p><\/div>\n

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Machu Picchu<\/p><\/div>\n

Should I spend a little extra money, since I\u2019ll be in the country anyway, to go to Stonehenge or Machu Picchu? It would be an experience of communing with history and hopefully understanding ancient cultures and how people lived. It might give me some spiritual insights about life and people. I don\u2019t know yet, whether I will see these places. What I have decided, however, is that if I go, it won\u2019t be to check it off my bucket list. As I disciplined myself to think more deeply about buckets, here’s what I came up with:<\/p>\n

7 Items Worth\u00a0Having on a Bucket List:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Have I made a positive difference in at least one person\u2019s life?<\/li>\n
  2. Have I helped someone get an education who might not otherwise be able to?<\/li>\n
  3. Have I brought some beauty into someone\u2019s life?<\/li>\n
  4. Have I loved my family well?<\/li>\n
  5. Have I helped another person live better?<\/li>\n
  6. Have I been a good neighbor? (and we all know that our \u201cneighborhood\u201d is the world. This probably extends to being involved in political solutions for the common good.)<\/li>\n
  7. Have I loved selflessly and humbly\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In other words, it\u2019s not important what I see or where I go, but have I made a difference. #7 is the most difficult, I think. I\u2019m still working on it.<\/p>\n

    A question for you<\/b> \u2013 What\u2019s one bucket list action you still want to do? What items might you let go of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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