I don't believe in a bucket list

Hi there!

This week I will be talking about an exercise I completed that I highly recommend.

I hope you will do this or your partner, your child, your friend, your parent. Whoever.

It is a good idea to get someone else on the band wagon with you.

It brought me into a perspective that to be great is not about doing great things.

In fact, being great is not an action. It's a perception. It's your perception.

Give it a go and complete it! Do not quit halfway through.

Be determined to get it done.

Write 500 goals. On paper. On a word document. Just make sure you can see it everyday after completion.

Yes, 500 goals.

Now most of us will start with general goals to do with travel, finances, family.

I found the first 100 goals was easy and then I got stuck.

Then I got to about 175 goals then I got stuck once again

Then I managed to get to 300 goals and I got stuck once again.

It took me 4 weeks to write 500 goals...

4 weeks of stopping and starting. Yet I knew there was a purpose of doing this exercise.

Trusted the process.

I realised I overcomplicated goals in my mind. I kept thinking very big.

Allow yourself to be ambitious absolutely but also allow yourself to feel good about the goals you write. Write goals that may seem so trivial and easy to do but it would make you feel incedible after completing it.

Write goals that are specific.

Write goals that make you feel warm and fuzzy.

Write goals that excite you.

I will share a few examples below:

1. Treat my family on an all paid trip to Bora Bora

32.Launch my own blog

100.Practice gratitude everyday

166.Eat hummus in Morocco

184.Help a family start a business

381.Build a snowman taller than me

311.Pay one months bills for a family

342.Pay for someones petrol

449. Hold a spider

500.Go mirrorless for a day

There were many ambitious ones but I wanted to share with you some simple goals.

They are still goals and very valid ones.

Can you imagine a stranger paying one month's worth of house bills for you just because they wanted to?

Or starting to actively write things you are grateful for every day and it becoming a habit?

It is so much fun to complete goals like this and I wish I learnt about this in my early years.

I had heard about bucket lists but I never thought about this. Because it focuses on achievements in a lifetime basically to complete your bucket list before you die.

Not to be morbid, but I do not know when my life will end but most likely my bucket list would be 30-50 years worth of activities. If I had a bucket list.

And in actual fact, I felt its too much pressure to have a bucket list and would have fell into the 'one day, some day' mentality.

500 goals is not for that purpose. 500 goals are for you to tick the goals off naturally. It is fun, light and makes you happy.

500 goals is adaptable and you can add, subtract or tick goals whenever you like. It should be funny to you, make your heart warm, make you feel good.

Go write 500 goals. I promise you friend, it makes you open up to more than what you are now.

It would be great if you could comment below a couple of yours to inspire others.

Lots of love to you

xoxo