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"Lead with your bucket list."

"Say" by John Mayer was the theme song for the 2007 film The Bucket List . I actually just saw the film for the first time this morning. While it got mixed reviews, I really enjoyed it; I found it to be a very heartwarming movie. When I was younger, the concept of a bucket list seemed to only be about far out, one-off, random activities that people hoped to do at some point in their lives. Whether talking to adults or children, people often talked about extreme activities such as skydiving, bungee jumping, or climbing a mountain or exotic trips such as going on a Caribbean cruise or traveling through the Hawaiian islands. Over the years, I have learned that bucket lists are not just about heart pounding adventures. There are numerous goals that people have that are quite thrilling to them, even if they would come across as simple or mundane to other people. As the movie The Bucket List  showed, some of the best goals are simple yet profound gestures that touch the live