Challenge Yourself - The Bucket List Way!

How many times do you say "I really want to do that someday."  Or maybe "I wish I had time to try that." (fill in the that with whatever)?  I think in my 30's I figured I had all the time in the world to try new things.  In my 40's I was just way too busy.  In my 50's I started thinking more about doing new things.  And here, in my mid-sixties now, I am in the doing stage.  It's now or never I figure.

Last year I took up kayaking.  I'm not doing rapids, mind you, or "going under" - godforbid!  But a good steady paddle around the lakes that our lake is connected to does a body good!  I never expected to like this either.  As long as where I go isn't choppy water, I'm fine.  Great exercise for your upper body - namely those upper arms that tend to flap!  I'm giving them something to flap about!

This year - are you sitting down? - I am taking up golf.  Gulp.  Oh why not?  Hubs is a  golfer, or should I say devotedly attached to the game kind of golfer.  I'm taking lessons from a woman pro I think is a hoot - she is making this fun!  It's great to challenge yourself to try new things. I'm keeping it light.  I don't aspire to the WPGA and yet I love trying to teach my body all kinds of weird things, like golf swings.  I'm like a pretzel unfolding and when I actually make contact ball I feel like I'm on fire - look out! I found a book "Yoga for Golfers".  I hope it helps.  Suffice to say starting decades ago may have been easier but I am determined to work on this - no more excuses.


The point of this post isn't about kayaking or golfing --- it is about DOING things.  Just like eating healthy, or losing weight, or starting a walking program, going to the gym, whatever it is that you SAY you are going to do, but don't.  Human beings are supremely creative when it comes to excuses, don't ya think?  Listen to the ones you'll come up with.

I did a whole post on excuses back in the early blog years.  I quoted from Dan Millman's book the same saying I put on my fridge when my kids were in high school:  "Any excuse is good enough for me, but is is good enough for YOU?"

So I challenge you right now to at least make a sort of bucket list - how's that for definitive?  Just write down some things that you want to do in the future.  No sweat.  Let it rip.  Put down lots of things. 

Ok.  Here's the fun part!  The future isn't going to get here.  It's now.  So pick one thing on that list and make the necessary time to do it - no excuses.  Let me know how it goes.  Also share your list here so that you may inspire others to say, hey, I want to do that too!