Check! Your Guide to Creating a Life Transforming Bucket List

By G. Scott Graham

A bucket list is not a shopping list, a to-do list, or a travel itinerary. Unfortunately, this is how many people approach writing a bucket list. A bucket list should inform and guide your choices on a daily basis, helping you to clarify your values and craft an exceptional life. In his book, Life Coach Scott Graham helps you do just that. Through a 17-step process, you will not only create a bucket list but you will learn things about yourself that you might not have even known. And the result? You'll lay the foundation for an incredible life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G. Scott Graham
• Release date: Sep 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005810863

G. Scott Graham

Scott Graham is a career coach and business coach in Boston, Massachusetts. Scott is driven to help clients follow their "true azimuth," which is different from "true north." It means coaching clients to identify the true focus of their life -- something that speaks individually to them. It means recognizing the forces that push our lives off course and adjusting to them so you get where you want to go. It means that when you are 90 years old and you look back on your life you have a sense of pride, accomplishment, and meaning -- with no regrets.

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Introduction

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

-- Ferris Bueller

A few months ago my spouse, Brian, joined me in the 50s, albeit three years behind me. We decided to revisit our financial plan and make adjustments for the second half of our lives together.

As part of tweaking our financial strategies, we both sat down to write out our individual bucket lists. After all, a clear understanding and a commitment to individual and collective goals is critical for a couple coming up with a financial strategy for their lives together.

We did a little Googling to get started and got stuck quickly. We found list, after list, after list. Lists for couples, lists for teenagers, personal lists from all kinds of people, bucket list making communities, and general list ideas in the billions. There are even bucket lists for dogs. The Huffington Post has a bucket list for gay men (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-diamond/23-things-every-gay-man-should-do_b_4258055.html). There’s probably even a bucket list for your state (I know there’s one for Vermont, where my home is: http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/vermont/ultimate-bucket-list-vt). But we found no guides on how to actually come up with a bucket list.

So what, you just read through the lists and copy the ideas you like? asked Brian. That’s pretty lame.

Lame indeed.

I created a process for us to follow. It was quite successful for both of us, so I decided to share it with you: structure, strategies, inspiration -- even coaching -- to help you create an incredibly powerful, personal bucket list.

More than a before-I-die to-do list, the bucket list you create by doing the activities that follow will inform and drive your life!

Get the Workbook!

Shortly after writing this book, I was flooded with requests for a workbook. You can get the workbook here:

www.workbook.lifetransformingbucketlist.com

This workbook will make creating your bucket list and your life plan that emerges from that bucket list simple and easy. Plus, you will have a physical record to share, review and adjust your plan in the future.

Here’s to following your dreams and checking off all of the things on your bucket list. I hope you find this process as beneficial as we both did.

G. Scott Graham

September 2016

Find a Way to Record Your Ideas, Create Your Bucket List, and Track Your Progress

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

-- Robin Sharma

Over my years of coaching, I have discovered that most people don’t have a good system for tracking the paper that floods their lives, the ideas that pop into their heads (I call them life grist), or the numerous lists -- from shopping to home chores -- they have.

Two Important Functions You