I was just over 10 years into my retirement when I wrote my retirement bucket list. Ten years after that, I finally completed that 25-item retirement bucket list. I finished it this year with a bang by jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, also known as skydiving. It was deeply satisfying to finally complete that bucket list. It took me a month to come up with all the items on that list. Now I am working on a short Bucket List 2.0. I’ve only got two items thus far. My plan is to get to ten.
I’m not writing this article to say you should follow my lead and do as I did in fulfilling my retirement bucket list. You may not even want to create a bucket list, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I’m certainly not advocating you go skydiving. So, I’m just writing up a few of my items, what I did, and approximately when I did them. These will not be in chronological order. Plus, I did not accomplish each item in numerical order.