Embark on Your Ultimate journey
A life in pursuit is a great life!
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
~Mark Twain
Top 10 Bucket List Items
We compiled the results from several bucket list surveys of over 12,000 people from around the world.
The top 10 most often listed items are:
Where did the term “bucket list” come from?
“We have Justin Zackham to thank for Your Bucket List Life!”
~Michael Charest, Founder YBLL
The term was made famous in 2008 when the movie “The Bucket List” came out. Justin Zackham wrote the screenplay and coined the expression "bucket list" after he wrote his own "List of Things to do Before I Kick the Bucket" and shortened it to "Justin's Bucket List".
The first item on his list was to "get a film made at a major studio." This list gave him the idea for the screenplay, and The Bucket List became his first studio film.
See, this stuff works! 😁
The saying, “kick the bucket” is traced back to 1811, where it appeared in the book, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Gros, where it is defined as "to die".
It is thought that this definition came from the French word trébuchet or buque, meaning balance. William Shakespeare used the word in this sense in his play Henry IV Part II where Falstaff says, “Swifter than he that gibbets on the Brewers Bucket.”
Let’s live our list before we kick the bucket!
