Professional Bucket List: The To-Do List of Professional Life

“Every man dies — Not every man really lives.” - William Ross

 

Bucket List is a list of all the things you ever wanted to do, things you dreamt of, and life experiences you wish to experience while you live. The sole purpose of creating a bucket list is to fully utilize every moment of our being and live life to the fullest. Instead of spending our time on pointless things, a bucket list enables us, to direct it toward things that matter to us. A bucket list lets you explore every aspect of your life.

 

A bucket list can belong to any category relevant to you like Profession, Health and fitness, Education, Hobbies, Experience and Travel. If you already have a bucket list, review it and update it according to your changing requirements. Try to keep it realistic. You don't need to complete or achieve all the items on your bucket list. Recently, I watched a movie The Bucket List (Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson). This movie inspired me to create my bucket list. I have created a separate bucket list for different categories as Experience, Travel and Professional.

 

Just like a personal bucket list, you can also create your professional bucket list which will help you to set your professional goals. Many of us are so much dedicated to our career that setting up a bucket list can serve the encouragement we need from time to time. Your professional bucket list is the subpart of your overall bucket list. Below is my professional bucket list: 

 

1. Gain overseas job experience    
2. Manage a Project worth 500 million rupees
3. Lead 100 Employees 
4. Become a Delivery Manager
5. Become a part of a large AI/ML project   
6. Complete TOGAF Certification
7. Complete SAFe Certification
8. Complete IELTS with 8 Bands 
9. Become Enterprise Architect 
10. Win a PMI Project Manager Award
11. Read 10 books on productivity
12. Post 100 articles on LinkedIn
13. Write Blogs on professional topic 
14. Deliver 100 speeches 
15. Start a YouTube channel on professional topic 
16. Learn speed reading 
17. Learn typing
18. Develop a course in Project Management  

 

 Reverse Bucket List

 

This is the list of things you’ve already done. You only need to enlist completed items. The idea is to help you realize that you have achieved more than you think. You write down every goal you have achieved or experienced. This makes you feel proud of all the interesting things you have done so far. It’s a great way to be thankful for those experiences, rather than frustrated at the things we haven’t done. Your professional Reverse bucket list can be a part of your Resume.

  

A bucket list can be not just for fun activities but also for serious life goals. It can be a means to give you that little push to work harder when the goals seem distant. You can either make a copy on your desktop or write it in your diary or maybe stick it on the wall and check off things from the list you have already done. A professional bucket list will help you to keep working in the right direction.