Live your Bucket List NOW!

“Get busy living or get busy dying”. – Carter Chambers, played by Morgan Freeman, The Bucket List

Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson brought the idea of the bucket list front and center, for consideration in the movie, The Bucket List. They were both dying of cancer, and teamed up to complete their own bucket list – that list of things you want to do before you die. They had a real deadline.

This past few weeks, my Vikki and I have been shaken to the core with the big “C” word – cancer. Vikki will be good we know but for that period of unknowing time, pure hell – and a realization:

Do what you want now – don’t wait. You just don’t know.

When you face the possibility of leaving or one of your loved one’s faces the same, everything in life changes; priorities change. What seemed important before – not.

Why be unhappy in your career - your job - a relationship or business you just don't like anymore. Start completing your bucket list --- and start today. Live for the day, and experience every moment. Who knows when your days will come to an end. Dreams unfulfilled are tasks on a to-do list – work through it, experience the pleasure, cross it off. Perhaps you bucket list contains:

• Experience love

• Travel to (fill in the blank)

• Do something for (fill in the blank)

• Finally find my way in career

• Get into the job of my dreams

• Make a difference in some manner

• Reconcile

The first step – write out the list and memorialize it. Put it where it is visible. Share with those close to you, and then work it – everyday. What is holding you back?

And thank you for reading this. – Dan

PS: Be demanding if you think there is something wrong with your health. Vikki knew a vertical line up and down her line on her toenail was not right – but one area dermatology practice said “don’t worry about it – use darker polish”. Another who knew what he was talking about immediately recognized this as a rare and often deadly cancer (Bob Marley died of this cancer) and put the medical system in action and he saved her. Check your nails and the nails of your family and if you see changes or lines, demand a biopsy.

Dan Moran

President & Founder

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