You know all those things you’ve always wanted to do?
You should go do them!
(E.J. Lamprey)
Time marches on, and the things you would like to experience or accomplish won’t happen automatically. Either you do them, or make them happen, or you don’t.
Have you made a list of things you would like to do?
People call this a “Bucket List” (for things you want to do before you ‘Kick the Bucket’), but I prefer to call it a “Life List.” The things I want to do while I’m alive, and that help me feel alive.
At a work team retreat last week, a colleague asked each of us for one thing we would like to accomplish. I had an answer, spur of the moment, but I would have liked to be able to consult my list (I don’t have it memorized). I have a lot of things I want to do, many of them involving travel, it seems.
One of those things is to do more fly fishing, and another is to see more places in my home state of Oregon.
Well, this week I’m going to do those things. My adult son and I leave today for a week+ fly fishing road trip through northeast, southeast, and central Oregon. We’re intentionally taking roads and routes that we’ve not done before. I’ve always wanted to see Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon, and now I’m going to do it.
I’ll tell you about it after I get back.
Meanwhile, identify something YOU want to do, and do it. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. Have some smaller things on your list too, and do those. You need things that you can accomplish short-term, and long-term.
Don’t just make plans, or think about doing things. Go ahead and do them!
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