The Bucket List

In the movie "A Walk to Remember," Jamie Sullivan shares with the love of her life Landon Carter what she wants to accomplish before she dies.  After discovering that Jamie is sick with leukemia and is close to death, her boyfriend Landon set out to help her reach her dreams.  Jamie wanted to become friends with someone she doesn't like, build a new telescope to see the comet, make a medical discovery, and to be in two places at once and her wishes were accomplished.

Each one of us has a desire to accomplish the goals we have and each of us has an imaginary bucket list on our mind that we never really sit down and jot it down.  I find that the act of writing deepens our desire to reach our goals and the likelihood of us accomplishing our goals is at a much faster and greater rate than if we leave them in our thought process.  So today I decided to jot down what are the goals I want to accomplish in this life time--

1. Find a suitable career for myself
2. Own a business
3. Open a restaurant
4. become a mentor who changes young people's lives
5. Create an innovation (s) that change the world
6. Get a tattoo
7. Meet a future president of the United States--any president will do.
8.  Go to a Taylor Swift concert.  Miss Swift is wealthy and her songs resonate to audiences all over the world.  She is genuine in her lyrics and I would love to see her live and in person one day.
9. Travel the world.  I want to land in all continents of the world and see what there are out there.  I find that reading about places is not enough and the act of immersing ourselves in new places opens our mind to the wonder the world.

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson once said, "Be your own best advocate--you have to fight for what you want." I learned the hard way on why and how I should be my own best advocate and if it was not the people who rejected me, I would never get to where I am today.  I am grateful every single day for those who said no to me, because of them I set out to do it myself.  The bucket list is the result of me being able to distinguish other people's thoughts and my own thoughts and it is an example of  me being an advocate for myself.