Rethinking Your “Bucket List” In Retirement

As folks approach retirement, they often start mentioning their “bucket list” more frequently. The bucket list is generally an itemized agenda of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to accomplish during their lifetime before they “kick the bucket” or die.

This concept brings to mind the 2007 film “The Bucket List”. In the movie, fate lands complete strangers Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in the same hospital room. They decide to complete a list of things they want to see and do before they die. They go skydiving, drive luxury cars, fly over the North Pole, visit the Taj Mahal, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, attend a safari in Tanzania, visit Mount Everest and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and visit Hong Kong. It was certainly a great list that would warrant the description of “experiences of a lifetime.”