1. Do you need a bucket list?
This might be the first and most important of the retirement mistakes that people have always made: bucket lists. Some might think that a list is a good way to keep yourself organized and focused on your goals, but life is not really working like that.
Maybe a list can help you at your job or when you go to get groceries, but you can’t keep your biggest wishes and desires on a list. Over the course of time, people change a lot, and so do their desires. You wanted a new car a few years ago, but now you don’t think that’s what you really want to have.
It will not help you in the long run to have a bucket list with 100 or more wishes. It can keep you in place, and it can also make you feel like you’ve never accomplished anything in your life. Because let’s be real now: how many of us will have most of our things on the bucket list completed when we draw the line?
And as we already said, you might have changed, and many of the things you have written there are not part of you anymore. Why would you cry over things that are not even “you” anymore?
So where, among all the fucking ads, are the six?
So where, among all the ads, are the six?
How do you handle not having a life from which to retire, from living as a bum, from contributing nothing to the Greater Good? How does one accept the inability to life a life not lived but wated, despite starting off very promising. One can’t go back; nor forward for one has nothing to be proud of, not one success; nothing but misery. How does one enter retirement, with nothing to retire from?
Another thing we should do is to get closer to God. And fellowship with other believers.
I am afraid that I won’t get everything done before I die. I also want to make sure I help my kids and grandkids in any way I think will help.I want to thank people and tell them how much they meant to me. I would like to leave some money for a few charities. Leave money for my kids and grands. Be grateful and try to instill in my family the importance of kindness, tradition, and following your dreams. what else is there?