Someday is not a date, and the list is only in your head.
You have one. Everyone does. Learn to sail properly. See the southern lights. Take the family somewhere they will still talk about in twenty years.
It has never been written down, so it never competes with anything. And the things that never compete are the things that never happen.
The answer
Say it out loud and it stops being a daydream.
Say it the moment it occurs to you — in the car, on the boat, halfway through someone else’s holiday photos — and it lands on the list with a date stamp and a tick box.
It sits beside your values and goals rather than in a separate app you open twice a year. That proximity is the point. When something on the list starts looking possible, it is one step from becoming a goal with a date on it.
“Add a world trip to my bucket list”
It’s on the list, dated, waiting.
Life Planning › Bucket List › + Add
Same result, typed.
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The honest version
Most bucket lists are somebody else’s.
Skydiving is on more bucket lists than any other single thing, and most of the people who wrote it down do not want to jump out of a plane. They want to have been brave once.
The useful question is not “what’s impressive.” It is: what would I regret not having done? That question produces a very different list, and a much shorter one.
Learn to sail properlynot a week’s charter — actually sail
See the southern lightsonce, from somewhere dark
Write the bookthe one you have described to people for years
The connection
A bucket list is a goal that hasn’t been given a date yet.
That is the whole relationship, and it is why the list lives here and not in a notes app.
Some things will stay on the list for a decade, and that is fine — a list you never finish is not a failure, it is a life with some room left in it. But every so often one of them stops being someday and starts being this year. When it does, it is already sitting next to the place you would give it a date.
I built boats for other people for years and kept meaning to finish one of my own. It was never on a list. It was just something I said.
The one that got finished was the one that got written down.
— Dave Rees, Founder. From boatbuilder, to business owner, to Founder.
How it works
Adding to your list takes about five seconds.
Say it the moment you think of it.That is when it is real. An hour later you will have talked yourself out of it.
Put the small ones on too.A list of only enormous things is a list you never touch.
