“Bucket lists” may be more important to one person than it would be to another. A near death experience tends to bring an individual closer to the reality of their mortality, if you will. One individual who may be undergoing chemotherapy will more likely to think about and write down a “bucket list” for their own comfort and hope for an imminent and better future. Then there are the individuals who are dreamers and typically just love life in general. They want to experience everything that this life has to offer and they will do everything in their power to make their dreams come true. 

A bucket list is a type of goal-setting strategy. It can be a very effective strategy if one is truly serious about the details of the usual vague statements that are divided up in list form on paper by numbers or bullets. Whatever one’s ultimate purpose of creating a bucket list, he/she must surely be aware of their imminent mortality. This is a good thing. It is therapeutic in many ways. Making this list is healthy and reveals a normal desire to live to the fullness that a person’s circumstances may allow. 

Any individual at any age should write a bucket list at least once during their lives. Bucket lists reveal to the individual the desire of their heart. According to a recent survey by Hilton, 69% of Americans have a bucket list of goals to achieve before they leave this earth. Enjoymagazine.net lists the top five polled goals that people have set for themselves.

1.  Travel - many people want to travel to different places and what better time to do it when the economy is struggling and prices of airline tickets and hotels are more than willing to negotiate a satisfactory price for competitions sake. 

2.  Sky Dive - There may be nothing like this feeling of weightlessness and many individuals are terrified of the whole idea of jumping out of a plane into thin air. The real item listed hear is to overcome one’s fears.

3.  Fly a Plane - Again, some people want to overcome the fear of flying, so why not actually take control of a small plane yourself?

4.  Own a Home -  The American Dream! Everyone wants security for themselves as well as their family. Owning a home is just one of the things that an individual can strive for to add security (and a roof over their head) to their lives. Another person’s circumstances may allow a wonderful rental to come into their lives.

5.  Learn to Speak Spanish - This goal represents a person’s desire to be educated about the world around them. Learning to be fluent in Spanish is a smart goal to have being that according to Ethnology, as of this year, 329 million people in this world speak Spanish as their first learned language as opposed to 328 million primary English speakers. Both of these languages combined don’t come close, though, to the 1.2 billion primary Chinese speakers! Learning Chinese may not be a bad idea, either, especially for business purposes.