Episodes
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What My Sister Thought About My Last Blog Post
After reading my last blog post on the 'permission slips of life', my sister had some interesting points to add to the conversation.
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Childhood Games And Permission Slips
I enjoyed group running games as a child, because I was less likely to lose at them. But how do you win at achieving your goals as an adult when it's it's difficult to even begin - and you don't necessarily have a team to support you?
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Bucket Lists, Anti-Bucket Lists, And Venn Diagrams
How are bucket lists and anti-bucket lists related to each other? Let me show you with a Venn diagram example!
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When Life Gives You Lemons....
Life happens. To everyone. So when life gives YOU lemons, you can learn to be ok with sour things - or you can look for the sugar. Or you can hate lemons. What will you choose?
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Fight, Flight, Freeze - How Do You Deal With Fears?
What is your natural tendency towards facing fear? Are you a fighter? Are you a runner? Do you freeze up? Knowing this about yourself will help prepare you better the next time you have to face one of your fears.
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59 Ways To Reward Success
You've recently been successful at something - congratulations! Now you might be wondering how you can reward your success. Here's my list of things that make me happy that I turn to when I want to reward my own successes; maybe you will find something from here that works for you too.
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An Anti-Bucket List Example For You
Looking for anti-bucket list examples? I have an example of my own personal anti-bucket list right here. Over 40 ideas you can use as inspiration for your own list!
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What To Do When You Want 'Out' Of Your Goals
If you're wondering, "Should I continue with my goal, or just quit?", this article offers some advice for you on how best to decide.
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3 Questions That Changed My Decision-Making Process
When I was student teaching, I learned to ask my students these three questions. Now I ask them of myself whenever I'm facing decisions too.
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Do You Know Someone Who Is Afraid?
So you have a friend who is facing some fears. What do you say to them? How can you talk to people about their fears - without insulting them?
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[Inside My Anti-Bucket List] Item #47: Fear Of Storms
Part 1 of my attempts to work on my anti-bucket list fear of thunderstorms; what I tried already and what other ideas I have so far.
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Are You Living Life - Or Just Thinking You Are?
How many times do you mistake online digital progress in something as a substitute for actually living life in the real world? I'm here to challenge that!
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More Than Numbers
We use numbers to measure our apparent successes and failures, but life is more than numbers - as I discussed in this speech I gave at Toastmasters a few years ago.
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80 Things People Used To Do For Fun In The "Before Computers" Era
Tired of electronics and personal gadgets taking over your life? Check out this big list of things that people used to do for fun before there were such things as smartphones and tablets!
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7 Songs I Listen To When Things Get Rough - My Playlist For Dark Times
When life gets hard, I listen to music. Here's seven of my favorite songs for difficult times. What's on your playlist?
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The Curse Of King Midas
Why I sometimes feel like King Midas, and the tools I personally use to help with depression and decision paralysis.
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How To Change When You Aren't Comfortable With Change
What happens when you want to change your life, but are uncomfortable with change in general? Here's some suggestions for you.
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What The World Fears
A Google Trends compilation of fears that people around the world have searched for in the last two decades. Are you surprised by any of the results?
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How To Start Your Own Anti-Bucket List In 5 Simple Steps
Ok, you're ready to get started with your own anti-bucket list. But how? It's all in this post here.
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"What on earth is an ANTI-bucket list (and why should I create one)?"
If you've ever wondered why anyone in their right mind would want an anti-bucket list, listen on. (Hint: it's different than 99% of the other anti-bucket list definitions out there.)
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[Inside My Anti-Bucket List] Item #25: Fear Of Rejection/Negative Criticism
My blog is born. Will it be accepted or rejected? Time will tell.
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10 Motivational Techniques (+ 1 Surprising Tip!)
11 things to try when you are definitely NOT motivated to do the hard things.
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What Level Of Fluency Do You Want?
We are all familiar with language fluency. But have you ever wondered what your 'fear fluency' is?
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Living The Dream
Whose dream are you living for yourself? Yours, or someone else's?
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Addicted To Comfort
Is it possible to be addicted to something good? I say that yes, it is.
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves
A speech I wrote when I was in Toastmasters about internal lies that we believe and how to overcome them.
About this show
These are recordings of each blog post I've published on anti-bucketlist.com, so you can listen to them as well as read them.
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Rachael
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