by Ginger Malousek
Recently, my son and I watched “The Bucket List”, starring
Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. Like
many movie watchers, this movie got my son and me thinking about our bucket
lists.
His list consisted of going to Wizardcom, meeting one of the
doctors from Doctor Who and building a life-sized Lego fort.
I thought about my own list.
I had always wanted to see Wayne Dyer, but with his passing,
unfortunately I’ll never get to check that off the list.
I’m sure we all have a list of items like that—things we’ll
never get to do because we missed the opportunity.
One of my highlights this past year was to meet Ivan
Misner. He has always impressed me with
his books, blogs, articles and podcasts.
I never had meeting him on my list, as I thought it would be impossible
to meet him. Not only has BNI grown over the last thirty years, but one of its features
that always amazes me is that it is duplicable.
One of the things I enjoy about being part of BNI is seeing
members’ businesses grow. Many will
share how starting the business was always a dream for them.
My daughter said she has two bucket lists. One list is what she’d do if she won the
lottery and could do whatever she wanted with minimal limitations. Her other list is one with reasonable
expectations.
I’ll never see Wayne Dyer.
I’ll probably never go to the moon.
But I can visit my 95 year old Grandfather on a monthly basis and call
him if I can’t make it to town. I can
take my children to Canada to see a monty within the next five years. I can keep up with my out-of-state cousins on
Facebook.
Everyone can have a Bucket List with reasonable
expectations. Even if it’s a small list,
of meeting with BNI members for a 1 2 1.
The best part about a reasonable expectations is that because you can
actually accomplish the things on your list, you’ll feel great about being able
to check the items off.
If you have a spare moment, then log on to Successnet and
start reading all the stories about members.
After reading a few stories, you’ll feel good and start thinking if they
can do it, then so can I.
Another item on my bucket list is to purchase another rental
property. I know some of you think that is crazy and how much work will be
involved. My idea of another property is
one in disrepair and needs a lot of work.
But with my experience with BNI, I feel very confident that it will be a
great adventure. With BNI members as my
resource I can do anything. I know my trust with members will guide me to
the right property and assist me from taking this property from the ugliest one
on the block to one that will be a show stopper.
After sharing my list with my son, he is excited to see a
Monty. Now that he knows it’s a
possibility, he’ll keep that list item on track. Make a list.
Share it. The people in your corner will help make sure you reach your
goals!
Don’t miss an opportunity like I did, about seeing Wayne
Dyer. Stop telling yourself you’ll get
around to it. But also look around you
or you might miss something that is right there.
As Nike would say “Just Do It”