{"id":2942,"date":"2018-09-11T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larakrupicka.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:26:48","slug":"overwhelmed-by-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larakrupicka.com\/staging\/6885\/2018\/09\/11\/overwhelmed-by-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelmed by Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do on this blog. I haven’t written much this year,\u00a0mostly due to my commitment to giving my family more attention. But definitely not for a lack of things to write about. My family and I have\u00a0certainly not stopped living the bucket list life. In fact,\u00a0I\u00a0looked over my official Bucket List<\/a>\u00a0last week and was shocked to see how many items I recently crossed off and how many I anticipate completing before this year ends!<\/p>\n

Has that ever happened to you – where life is hum-drum and ordinary for a while and then suddenly the pace picks up and you’re caught in a whirlwind of opportunities and experiences?<\/p>\n

What I’m noticing right now is that, although I knew I had been taking part in a lot of new experiences, and I knew I had been checking off goals and ideas from my bucket list, I hadn’t calculated just how many long-range goals I was reaching in such a short amount of time. Over the past four months I’ve checked off\u00a0eight<\/em> items from my bucket list. In the next four months I expect I’ll complete another six<\/em> or so. Some of these experiences had been months and months in the planning,\u00a0while others have arisen completely unexpectedly.<\/p>\n

But if I hadn’t kept a written bucket list and chosen to review it, I’m not sure I would have realized the magnitude of what I’ve seen and done. I normally\u00a0hope to cross off\u00a0a handful of long-term bucket list goals in a year (not including those that\u00a0are added spontaneously or retro-actively). If I’m lucky. And here it looks like I will have completed\u00a0about a dozen. A dozen – over 10% of my whole list – in one year!<\/p>\n

I am overwhelmed with gratitude for how fortunate I have been. It’s not that I became independently wealthy in the past eight months and so I’m suddenly able to do more. It’s not that I’ve reached the ranks of in-demand bloggers being given bucket list experiences in exchange for publicity or endorsements. It’s that opportunity after opportunity has presented itself and I’ve been ready to take them.<\/p>\n

How about you? Are you taking advantage of opportunities to learn new things, see new places, meet new people? Are your life goals coming to fruition in unexpected ways?<\/p>\n

What if\u00a0I told you there is\u00a0one thing you could do that would help you seize on the opportunity to complete more of your life goals? Would you do it?<\/p>\n

If you’re game, then my encouragement for you is this: write down your bucket list goals, if you haven’t already. You can download the bucket list worksheet<\/a> I created to help you. Then, review<\/em> your list from time to time. Review it to add items (which I did a bunch of\u00a0last week –\u00a0it’s interesting to see how my interests and hopes have expanded since I reviewed it last). Review it to remember what you’re hoping to do (or see, or be). But more than anything, review it to remind yourself of what you’ve already<\/em> accomplished.\u00a0That review and the momentum from seeing how far you’ve come will have you prepared more than ever before to seize the next bucket list opportunity that comes your way.<\/p>\n

You might end up being as overwhelmed as I am by how much you’re living out your life dreams!<\/p>\n

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I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do on this blog. I haven’t written much this year,\u00a0mostly due to my commitment to giving my family more attention. But definitely not for a lack of things to write about. My family and I have\u00a0certainly not stopped living the bucket list life. In…<\/p>\n

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