Molly Burford - DIY Bucket List: 100+ Prompts, Lists, & Ideas for Planning the Rest—and Best—of Your Life!

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Life is truly a gift.

Its overflowing with amazing possibilities, exciting potential, and endless wonders. You can grow and love and experience everything (and everyone) this wonderful planet has to offerall you need to do is make specific, actionable plans. You need to identify whom and what you want to focus on and let go of all the rest. And thats what DIY Bucket List is for! A bucket list is a record of accomplishments and experiences you hope to achieve during your lifetime. This book will help you decide whatand whois important to you and keep track of all of your goals. DIY Bucket List serves as a guide on your journey to cross off every item.

Youll find the following:

• Dozens of writing prompts to help you determine whats most important to you in all areas of your life. For example, youll describe every glorious detail of your perfect getaway.
• Checklists to capture bucket list goals under the same category, like lists of movies to watch, books to read, shows to binge, sports to learn, and special meals to eat. Each item will have a priority rating so you can figure out what to do first.
• Journaling pages to record actionable bucket list goals based on what you figured out from the writing prompts. If you want to take an amazing vacation, when will you go? Who will go with you? How will you save up for it? After you check off each item, youll find space to reflect on the experience. Was your vacation as amazing as you knew it would be? What exceeded your expectations? What do you want to be sure to remember?

Were all busybut you can accomplish all of your bucket list goals when youre organized and thoughtful about how you track them. Whether thats being with your family, spending time with friends, finally getting on that plane to Italy, or writing a novel thats always been deep inside, DIY Bucket List will take your dreams from these pages into reality.

No matter where you are in your journeybe it your teens, twenties, midlife, or golden yearsyou can start living your life joyously. Fully. Completely. It starts with you. Be excited and curious about whats to come. Turn the page and lets start planning!

What are the things that are most important to you? Is it your relationships? Is it pushing yourself educationally? Is it traveling around the earth to experience the wonders that can be found there? Maybe a combination of all of those things? Thats up to you to find out in the next pages, with thirty prompts that will guide you to figure out what exactly is most important to you.

Theyll help stimulate your thinking; theyll push you to look at your life goals in a new way. And above all, theyll guide you toward creating your own bucket list, geared toward your needs and wishes. The items on that bucket list will go in the lists you compile in Part 2. Be open-minded, curious, and honest in these answers, and dont automatically reject any of them. You might be surprised to learn what you value!

You wake up one day, and youre no longer in your bedroom. Youre in a hotel.

Where in the world would this hotel be? You get up from the bed and approach the windowwhat do you hope to see when you open the drapes? What scents would you want wafting up to you? Is the scene quiet or teeming with people? Write a brief description of your dream scenario.

If your life were a movie, what kind of genre would it be? Would it be action, full of adventure? Would it be a romantic comedy? Would you be the lead character or playing a supporting role? Write out a synopsis of your life movie here. What is something you regret missing? How can you make up for it? What experiences can you seek out that could replicate the feelings you missed the first time around? How could you be your own role model? What actions can you take to lead a life youre proud of? Is it running a 5K? Entering an art show? Writing your novel? Getting that promotion youve been working so hard for? Dont be afraid to dream big!