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A bucket list is a list of things to do before you die. This book is a guide to ways to live before you die. Whether you have a bucket list or not, the stories and insights in this book offer you seven clear ways to lighten--and enlighten--your life before you kick the bucket. George Simons and Walt Hopkins (international consultants in their mid-seventies) have learned a lot about living well while getting older--and they generously and intimately share those learnings with men and women concerned about aging.

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Santé du quotidien

Santé au quotidien

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Publié par	Libri Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	07 décembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780993000263
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Seven Ways to Lighten Your Life before you Kick the Bucket
© ٢٠١٥ Walter Painter Hopkins and George Francis Simons
All rights reserved.

Dedicated to the ones we love— and especially to Our parents:

Genevieve and George

Harriet and Dean
And our lifetime friends:

Imprint
First published in 2015 by Redshank Books
Copyright © Walter Painter Hopkins and George Francis Simons
The right of Walter Painter Hopkins and George Francis Simons to be identified as the authors of this
work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
ISBN 978-0-9930002-6-3T Epub
978-0-9930002-7-0 Mobi
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying , recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder for which application should be addressed in the first instance to the publishers. No liability shall be attached to the author, the copyright holder or the publishers for loss or damage of any nature suffered as a result of reliance on the reproduction of any of the contents of this publication or any errors or omissions in its contents.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library
Cover by George Simons and Walt Hopkins
Printed by Edwards Brothers Malloy
Redshank Books
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Redshank Books is an imprint of Libri Publishing
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The Stargazers
The Stargazers
George’s men’s group.
Left to right:
Bill Mahkovitz, Don Pomeroy,
George Simons, Ken Hockenberry, Steve Schulz, Gene Milburn
(Ari Marcus and Jonathan Levy
not in photo).

The Fine Nine
Walt’s support team.
Clockwise from top:
Rosie Hopkins, Den Winterburn, Joep de Jong,
Sushma Sharma, Jenny Saunders Gilders,
Johnny King, George Simons, Marianne Erdelyi, Jasenka Gosjic.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The leather bucket on the cover was aboard a ship called the Mary Rose when it sank off Portsmouth in 1545. The bucket was found when the Mary Rose was raised from the seabed in 1982. The photo is © Mary Rose Trust. See http://www.maryrose.org for more about the Mary Rose.
We thank Giovanni Sartori of the London City Hotel, who encouraged us to sit in his café for hours as we did our first work on this book. Jim Dustin created the frog and crocodile avatars. He is at Jim Dustin, Design on LinkedIn. With gratitude to everyone we have learned with, we thank some specific people who inspired us as we created this book.
Walt is grateful to
Frank Barrett
Dick Beyer
David Berlew
Dick Bolles
Roy Fairfield
Corinne Fleischer
Dina Glouberman
James Graham
Jim Hagerty
Roger Harrison
Peter Honey
Giles Hopkins
Nikos Kazantzakis
Jim Lord
Runa Mackay
Sonia Nevis
Alan Raleigh
Herb Shepard
David Sparks
Ilya Sloutsky
Stephanie Winston
Benjamin Zander
Class of ’66 Reunion Team
YES Kinross Team
My family in the US
My family in Scotland
and the Fine Nine
George is grateful to
Diane Asitimbay
Dave Beckman
Joellen Burns
Steve Crawford
Elmer Dixon
Grant Douglas
Rose Gordy
Wieke Gur
Ward Kaiser
Ken Nickels
Cynthia & Armando Milani
Asparouh Nikolov
Julie O’Mara
Emese Pozdena
Cathy Puccinelli
Alan Richter
Earl Rohleder
Paul Schafer
Patrick Schmidt
Tom Shubert
Martin Sims
Marietta Starrie
Nico Swaan
Terry Taucer Samson
Paul Westlake
Paul Wysocki
The Stargazers Men’s Group
Contents
Seven Ways to Lighten Your Life before you Kick the Bucket
Dedicated to the ones we love— and especially to Our parents:
Imprint
The Stargazers
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
The Method in our Madness—and the Madness in our Method
Seven Ways - to empty your life and lighten your life - to fill your life and enlighten your life
Who we are and how that led to this book
1: The Chucket List
2: The Shucket List
3: The Ducket List
4: The Fucket List
5: The Plucket List
6: The Trucket List
7: The Tucket List
Beyond the ...ucket Lists
Notes
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel Paige 1
A man needs a little madness—or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Nikos Kazantzakis 2

The Method in our Madness—and the Madness in our Method
To give you an idea of the method in our madness, we will first tell you how this book works—and why we wrote it.
And then, to give you a sense of the madness in our method, we will tell you about ourselves—and more about why we wrote this book.
How this book works
If you kick a bucket, it hurts less when the bucket is empty. So, before you kick the bucket, be sure that you have drained its fullness and that the bucket is as empty as you can make it. In other words, before you die, live your life to the full.
This book is our reaction to the idea of making a list of things to do before you kick the bucket. 3 A bucket list 4 is a list of things to do before you die. Our …ucket lists are ways to live before you die.
Our own experience is that we work on all seven ways simultaneously. But you can’t write a book that way, so we start with ways to clear your life and end with ways to enjoy your life. The first four ways help you dump the useless stuff out of the bucket, while the other three ways help you relish what’s left in the bucket. Or, as Yoda 5 might have put it:

Before the bucket you kick
Empty out what’s crappy
And from what’s left then pick
The things that make you happy
Although we like all kinds of poetry, that particular poem 6 is close to the doggerel end of the spectrum. Still, it could be verse. Because we like rhymes—and because the original idea for these lists came from one particular rhyme—each of our seven ways does rhyme with bucket.
Just remember, these Seven Ways are not prescriptions for pills to take; they are descriptions of thrills to make—ways to feel and to be truly alive.
We have set up this book in seven chapters. Instead of tasks to do, each chapter offers ways to live. We tell you stories from our own lives and we encourage you to think of stories from your own life. We show you lists of ways we live our lives and we encourage you to consider how you live your life. We even give you some questions for you to think about and talk about with others.
Here are brief summaries of the Seven Ways that we have developed. If some ways interest you more than others, just start reading those chapters. It’s your book and it’s your life.

Seven Ways - to empty your life and lighten your life - to fill your life and enlighten your life
1. Chucket: Dump things you no longer need in your life.

Look at all the stuff that the years have allowed you to collect on shelves, in cupboards or closets, in the basement or the garage, or even in offsite storage. We figure that since we’re not going to keep all this stuff for eternity, it might be a good idea to unclutter our lives and start chucking stuff now. Let’s face it, Final Destination Airlines, even more than EasyJet, insists that, “You can’t take it with you.” Final Destination doesn’t even allow hand luggage, no matter how much you’re willing to pay. So if you can’t take it with you, maybe now is a good time to Chucket.
2. Shucket: Shuck the wrappings and keep the gift.

Reluctant to chuck it? Maybe there is something you want to keep, but it is encrusted or surrounded with stuff that seems shabby or useless. Just as you can shuck the husk from an ear of corn to get at the corn itself, you can shuck other things in your life. Whatever it is, get to the heart of the matter, peel away and strip off the nonessentials, so you can know what is left and use it to the full. When you Chucket, you throw out the whole thing; when you Shucket, you choose what you really want to keep in the bucket of life—and you distill those things to their essence with careful shucking.
3. Ducket: Dodge demands that don’t fit your values.

When someone offers you another thing to have or another thing to do, then you can accept it or you can duck it. People may feel that you have nothing but time on your hands, so they offer you something to do to keep you from being bored. This task can even come with a wonderful title, designed to flatter you into doing something that doesn’t fit your values or just isn’t how you want to spend your time. Flattery can get you into trouble. If it isn’t for you, Ducket!
4. Fucket: Dump what you’re fed up doing or being.

To clean up your life, sometimes you just need to say, “Fuck it.” Identify what you have been doing out of habit, compulsion, or just being too nice. Maybe you’re tired of doing something, having something, or being something that is no longer working for you. Maybe you’re just doing too many things and you want some time for yourself. Instead of a bucket list of things to do, this is a Fucket List of things not to do. If it’s causing you—and perhaps others—pain or aggravation or if it’s squandering your time or energy, then it’s time to say, “Stop already!” That’s the Fucket moment. That’s when you have finally Stucket in the Fucket Bucket.
5. Plucket: Reach for what you still want to do and be.

Delight in the stuff that you enjoy. Pluck it! The tree of life is offering you possibilities, like ripe fruit hanging on its branches, that you have not paid attention to, or said “maybe later” to, or simply