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(This is the final of three exercises designed to help you identify your "life passions." To follow this "thread" chronologically, just go back to Monday's post, "Beyond Your Bucket List. What Are Your Passions?" and then read chronologically forward) It's a sad commentary of our society that many of us now feel more constrained by the demands of time than by lack of money. Thirty years ago, the lottery exercise was sufficient. But at some point in the 1990s, I started using this one as well. It's kind of fun anyway so I though I'd share it. "You get up in the morning. You have no obligations. You no longer need to have a job. Your bills are paid. There will be a delicious meal prepared for you whenever you are hungry. Your house is clean. Your laundry is done. Your yard is perfect. Everything you need is provided for you. What will you do today?" I understand that when this exercise is done in a seminar environment, sometimes a P...

I was planning on covering this topic fairly soon anyway, but I’m guessing that the upcoming release of the movie “The Bucket List,” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman is about to create a lot of discussion in the “What do you want to do with the rest of your life?” category, so I might as well raise this discussion now. In the movie, the Nicholson and Freeman characters are terminally ill men who go on a final spree, trying to cross as many things as possible off of their respective lists of things they want to do before they “kick the bucket.” Since I am very interested in the topic of what people want to do with the rest of their lives, I am of course interested in the movie’s treatment of this topic, but from what I’ve seen of the previews, it appears to be more of an “old guy escapade” movie than anything else. Actually, I hope I’m wrong. In any event, I’ll bet you already have a “bucket list” floating around in your head, even if you never called it that. I know I do. I’ve ju...

I was planning on covering this topic fairly soon anyway, but I’m guessing that the upcoming release of the movie “The Bucket List,” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman is about to create a lot of discussion in the “What do you want to do with the rest of your life?” category, so I might as well raise this discussion now. In the movie, the Nicholson and Freeman characters are terminally ill men who go on a final spree, trying to cross as many things as possible off of their respective lists of things they want to do before they “kick the bucket.” Since I am very interested in the topic of what people want to do with the rest of their lives, I am of course interested in the movie’s treatment of this topic, but from what I’ve seen of the previews, it appears to be more of an “old guy escapade” movie than anything else. Actually, I hope I’m wrong. In any event, I’ll bet you already have a “bucket list” floating around in your head, even if you never called it that. I know I do. I’ve ju...