Your Top 20 Bucket List for Living the Good Life

For all of their differences, there’s a great deal of similarity amongst those who have achieved their wildest dreams. For one thing, they prioritize their basic needs. Having your basic needs taken care of gets them out of the way. It frees up energy to flow in other directions.

Highly successful people are known to for their willingness to step outside of their comfort zones. While that trait alone is impressive, it’s the ability to do it every day that makes all the difference. So, if you want to live your good life, let this article get you in motion! Here’s your top 20 bucket list to help you reach as far as you dare:

1. Do something that makes you really uncomfortable.

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

2. Set a physical challenge for yourself, and see it through to the end.  

“In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first…in the middle of the pack…or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.” –Fred Lebow

3. Take the time to figure out what you really want.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” –Confucius

4. Volunteer for one night per week.

“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.” –Gillian Anderson

5. Take a genuine interest in the people around you.

“Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else’s most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self.” –Aidan Chambers

6. Learn to let people help you, too.

“You need other people, Madeline. There’s a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.” –Blake Nelson

7. Cultivate the habit of letting go. Everything and anything that’s getting in your way–let it go now. 

“Let it go, let it go!” –Frozen

8. Do something for someone else, without expecting anything in return.

“When you’ve seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there, and the time will come when you see we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.” –The Beatles

9. Give yourself time to wander this wonderfully diverse and complex world we live in.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –Mark Twain

10. Dance shamelessly and as often as possible.  

“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth, and it is yours for the taking.” ―Agnes De Mille

11. Face your past. And then let it go.

“Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Make peace with who you are.

“We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.” –Lynn Hall

13. Learn to meditate.

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” –Caroline Myss

14. Cultivate your sense of gratitude.

“Be thankful for your trials. If you’re being tested, you’re being perfected. Which means you have a divine purpose and reason to rejoice.” –Unknown

15. Accept that there will be failures and setbacks along the way, and that sometimes your progress will appear very small by comparison. Keep moving forward anyway.

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. Embrace the joy in life.

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” –Brené Brown

17. Spend time alone.

“The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.” –Diane Von Furstenberg

18. Go vegan, and let it open your heart.

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” – Leonard da Vinci

19. Find something you can do with absolute abandon.

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.” –Walt Whitman

20. Make space in your life for media-free time.

“It’s called ‘the web’ because once you’re in it, you’re stuck.” –Terry Hall

What are your tips for living the good life?