Why have a bucket list? Here are three reasons to encourage you to go for your dreams to get you closer to your front-row:
1. Having a bucket list gives you a sense of purpose – It gives you a reason to get up and do what you have to do, and to endure the pain of discipline.
2. Helps you grow as a person. You can’t help but grow when you get out of your comfort zone and accomplish your goals. Everytime you accomplish something it gives you momentum to keep growing. Like my dad always said; when you’re green you grow, when you’re ripe, you rot. So, keep growing!
3. It’s good for your mental health It feels GREAT to cross something off of your list. We need all the positive energy to improve our mental health especially lately.
But, I have a bonus! It’s the opposite of unintended consequences, you know those unfortunate things that occur with decisions and actions that aren’t good. The opposite is: Serendipity! Those little unplanned miracles, people places and things that you experience that you wouldn’t otherwise have experienced had you not been working toward your goals. In today’s Front-Row Friday video, I show how my husband Yves’s best friend was being decorated by the French Prime Minister with the National Order of the Legion of Honor which is the is the highest military and civil decoration awarded in France. France’s Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, (only the second female Prime Minister of France) held a reception at her private resident, Hotel Matignon for this very special occasion. Due to Yves’s cancer diagnosis, he couldn’t go so I was invited to represent him. It was the most extraordinary experience to be at this decoration and private reception at the residence of the Prime Minister. I had an amazing time speaking French (albeit not perfectly) with old friends, and while meeting new ones. I know for a fact, that if I never had a goal to speak French, had I not went to immersion school last year, had I not been disciplined to work on my mobile language learning app Duolingo for the last 1035 days and counting, this never would have happened. It was a front-row experience for sure. That’s what you call a serendipitous moment that I could never have imagined happening but it did because I’ve been working on my bucket list to speak fluent French. Congratulations Jean-Hervé Lorenzi on this huge honor and thank you for extending that invitation to witness it in person.
On this Front-Row Friday, I want to remind you to stick with your goals. Hang in there with your bucket list. Do the day to day discipline of working toward your dreams and hopefully you can have something serendipitous happen to you!
Happy Front-Row Friday –
Au Revoir!
