The Bucket. Kicking the Bucket. Passing on. Reaching heaven.
Where do you see your life going in the next few minutes, hours, weeks, years? Do you have a vision of some sort? Is God directing you to a path?
The Bucket List is something many have thought long and hard about since that cheeky 2000s movie starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. But, people thought about it long before that movie as well. They’ve thought about it for thousands of years. Believe it or not.
The 5 Big questions to consider when making this list of yours: Who? Where? What? When? Why?
- Who do you hope to be during the course of your days on Earth?
- Where do you see your actions, words, etc., taking you?
- What are you doing to make this life the best it can be?
- When do you see yourself standing up for the life God wants for you?
- Why would you alter your current course at all?
These are tough, whether you’re building a Bucket List or not. But, what if we treated everything in our day-to-day lives with a Bucket List mentality? God supreme. Our breath a gift. Where would our map point us?
See, the who, where, what, when, and why give us a full range of questions to help keep our focus on the present. On the progress of each day. Then, if we throw in 1 more question (the How?), we will rarely miss our mark. Because, the How? is self-explanatory. How will we stay on course? – God. (If we answer the How? any other way, it leads us astray.)
So, to go back to the Big 5 (+1 How?) we now have the logic needed to build the best Bucket List ever!
How would you build yours now knowing the purpose behind a life-long Bucket List?
The Brian Tucker Bucket List—
Honor God (and never quit), Become a better husband, truly grateful, Fish for marlin in the Gulf Stream, Write a novel that changes someone’s life, Become a better listener, Go to a “good” concert each and every year, Tithe with a grateful heart, Ride a bull (and/or) run with the bulls, Have a conversation with Charles Portis, Harness my pride and take bold, God-approved stances on issues in our world that would exemplify Christ, Store up treasures in Heaven not Earth, Visit a new continent every 5 years, Be still at least 1 time every day, Play Contra on a drive-in movie theater, Move to Kentucky, have a son, and name him Ken Tucker (safe to say Leah won’t ever stand for that one, I’ve tried), and Travel through the Panama Canal from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
Think about yours. Share it as you build it. Write me back.
Here’s a great one I found online—
