The Reverse Bucket: How to Find Gratitude and Enjoyment in Your Life w/ Travis Bell
In this episode of the Big Success Podcast, Travis Bell, shares his expertise on living with intention and achieving personal fulfillment. Travis explains how creating and pursuing a bucket list can help individuals focus on their passions and align their actions with their true purpose. He discusses the psychology behind goal-setting, strategies for overcoming fear and procrastination, and the importance of celebrating milestones along the way.
About Travis Bell:
Travis Bell, famously known as "The Bucket List Guy," is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author, and life coach. He specializes in helping people design and live extraordinary lives through the power of bucket list creation. With a background in personal development and motivational speaking, Travis has inspired countless individuals to step out of their comfort zones, set meaningful goals, and take actionable steps toward their dreams. His dynamic approach to life design has earned him recognition as a leading expert in intentional living.
Learn more: https://www.thebucketlistguy.com/
About Brad Sugars
Internationally known as one of the most influential entrepreneurs, Brad Sugars is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and the #1 business coach in the world. Over the course of his 30-year career as an entrepreneur, Brad has become the CEO of 9+ companies and is the owner of the multimillion-dollar franchise ActionCOACH®. As a husband and father of five, Brad is equally as passionate about his family as he is about business. That’s why, Brad is a strong advocate for building a business that works without you – so you can spend more time doing what really matters to you. Over the years of starting, scaling and selling many businesses, Brad has earned his fair share of scars. Being an entrepreneur is not an easy road. But if you can learn from those who have gone before you, it becomes a lot easier than going at it alone.
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2024-12-21
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WEBVTT 00:00:00.119 --> 00:00:03.471 <v Speaker 1>People are dying at 40 and being buried at 80. 00:00:03.471 --> 00:00:06.288 <v Speaker 1>Thank you for giving me permission to have fun again. 00:00:06.288 --> 00:00:08.909 <v Speaker 1>Thank you for giving me permission to dream again. 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:21.283 <v Speaker 2>Today on the Big Success Podcast I've got the bucket list guy, Trav Bell, and some of the things he teaches us about reverse bucket list today, identifying all the things that you've done in your life as if they were in a bucket list all the way along. 00:00:21.344 --> 00:00:21.986 <v Speaker 1>Simple as that. 00:00:21.986 --> 00:00:24.187 <v Speaker 1>We live in such a forward-facing world. 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:31.306 <v Speaker 2>The next thing, the next goal that can create anxiety in people. 00:00:31.306 --> 00:00:32.369 <v Speaker 2>He's the bucket list guy, travis Bell. 00:00:32.369 --> 00:00:33.494 <v Speaker 2>We're going to talk about success. 00:00:33.494 --> 00:00:38.432 <v Speaker 2>So, travis Bell, I have to ask, as a bucket list guy you're the bucket list guy what is success to you? 00:00:38.432 --> 00:00:39.939 <v Speaker 2>How do you define success? 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:49.810 <v Speaker 1>I finished a hike with my dad about 10 years ago and we were staying at a not so good hotel. 00:00:49.810 --> 00:00:56.256 <v Speaker 1>At the end of that hike, in the middle of kind of lower Hobart, really dodgy kind of area, they picked it I didn't. 00:00:56.256 --> 00:01:10.103 <v Speaker 1>On the back of the Dunny door there was a quote by Bob Dylan written a man is a success when he wakes up in the morning and goes to bed at night and does what he wants to in between. 00:01:10.103 --> 00:01:13.412 <v Speaker 1>And I went huh and it has stayed with me. 00:01:13.412 --> 00:01:29.602 <v Speaker 1>It's in my book and I think success for me is doing what you want with whom you want, having the freedom of choice and, yeah, being happy in the process, having purpose, meaning and choice in the process. 00:01:29.923 --> 00:01:34.132 <v Speaker 2>How does one succeed at the reverse bucket list? 00:01:34.132 --> 00:01:36.424 <v Speaker 2>Because I love the way you teach people to do that? 00:01:36.463 --> 00:01:37.888 <v Speaker 1>How do you succeed at doing it Well? 00:01:37.908 --> 00:01:40.625 <v Speaker 2>maybe first tell them what it is and then how to succeed at doing it. 00:01:40.825 --> 00:01:53.843 <v Speaker 1>Yeah, everyone knows what a bucket list is there's, you know, it's all the future things, future things, all the things we want to tick off our list before we die, between now and into the future, before that used by date. 00:01:53.843 --> 00:02:09.090 <v Speaker 1>But the reverse bucket list is I actually do the reverse bucket list with people before the future bucket list to give people a sense of gratitude, to get them to identify all the cool things that they've done in their life as if they were in a bucket list all the way along. 00:02:09.090 --> 00:02:11.288 <v Speaker 1>You know, this is a big gratitude exercise. 00:02:11.288 --> 00:02:26.111 <v Speaker 1>So when people identify all the cool stuff and, to be honest, we live in such a forward-facing world the next thing, the next goal, you know, and that can create anxiety in people by just piling more on. 00:02:26.111 --> 00:02:29.569 <v Speaker 1>Dude, I'm already busy just, and now you're talking to me about bucket list. 00:02:29.569 --> 00:02:30.876 <v Speaker 1>It's like no, no, no. 00:02:31.116 --> 00:02:33.706 <v Speaker 1>One of the pillars of positive psychology is gratitude. 00:02:33.706 --> 00:02:57.219 <v Speaker 1>You know, positive psych, as you know, it's about identifying the strengths and what gives person meaning, purpose, fulfillment and gratitude and basically bleeding more of that into their life, and into their business life as well, or work life, and therefore you'll have a quote-unquote happy life or a more fulfilled life as a result, people are too busy trying to fix their weaknesses. 00:02:57.219 --> 00:02:59.284 <v Speaker 1>To balance things out Now. 00:02:59.284 --> 00:03:03.984 <v Speaker 1>Positive psych is just like no, do more of what you're good at, what floats your boat, what's the? 00:03:04.044 --> 00:03:06.611 <v Speaker 2>keys to creating a great reverse bucket list. 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:12.145 <v Speaker 1>Mate, it's identifying all the things that you've done in your life as if they were in a bucket list all the way along. 00:03:12.145 --> 00:03:12.867 <v Speaker 1>Simple as that. 00:03:12.867 --> 00:03:19.145 <v Speaker 1>You ask most people you know identify those things and people will sort of start to tap out at about five things. 00:03:19.145 --> 00:03:23.932 <v Speaker 1>You mean you can only identify five things on your reverse bucket lists. 00:03:23.932 --> 00:03:26.700 <v Speaker 1>Maybe in the five minutes that I've given you. 00:03:26.700 --> 00:03:33.502 <v Speaker 1>I think it's really important to identify all the things and there's no judgment, no comparison or anything like that. 00:03:33.682 --> 00:03:39.903 <v Speaker 1>You've got a reverse bucket list and that should be as fleshed out and as big as the future bucket list. 00:03:39.903 --> 00:03:59.399 <v Speaker 1>What it does is when you actually put pen to paper and even write, even create a reverse bucket list board for some people, it gives people an overwhelming sense of gratitude and a hell of a foundation to then dream big, because a lot of this stuff happened by stuff in your past, happened by default rather than intentional design. 00:03:59.399 --> 00:04:09.743 <v Speaker 1>What if we actually put some intention you know intention, true intention behind what we want to do, going forward, and people like that get that glimmer of hope, mate. 00:04:09.743 --> 00:04:16.478 <v Speaker 1>And I've got to say just helping people identify all the cool stuff and I frame it up in this. 00:04:16.478 --> 00:04:19.172 <v Speaker 1>You know reverse bucket list context. 00:04:19.172 --> 00:04:24.225 <v Speaker 1>That alone has helped so many people with depressive thoughts. 00:04:24.225 --> 00:04:25.548 <v Speaker 1>It really has. 00:04:25.548 --> 00:04:29.017 <v Speaker 1>Over the years it's helped people just bring the light back and go. 00:04:29.017 --> 00:04:34.057 <v Speaker 1>Yeah, massive appreciation for you know the stuff that I've done in my life already. 00:04:34.345 --> 00:04:40.425 <v Speaker 2>Your formula for the bucket list, the my bucket bucket list can you take us through that and why that formula is important. 00:04:40.745 --> 00:04:45.274 <v Speaker 1>So my bucket list, m it's an acronym, so um. 00:04:45.274 --> 00:04:53.911 <v Speaker 1>It's designed to help you go north, south, east, west, in your own brain, help you extract and articulate a personally meaningful and holistic bucket list, rather than just about travel. 00:04:53.911 --> 00:04:56.927 <v Speaker 1>So M who do you want to meet before your timer? 00:04:56.927 --> 00:04:58.029 <v Speaker 1>Meet a personal hero. 00:04:58.029 --> 00:05:01.958 <v Speaker 1>Y stands for your proud achievements. 00:05:01.958 --> 00:05:04.130 <v Speaker 1>B buy that special something. 00:05:04.130 --> 00:05:06.240 <v Speaker 1>This is now the materialistic part of this. 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.389 <v Speaker 1>How are you rewarding yourself? 00:05:09.389 --> 00:05:10.870 <v Speaker 1>U ultimate challenges. 00:05:10.870 --> 00:05:15.639 <v Speaker 1>So these are maybe the small, medium and big physical challenges. 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.317 <v Speaker 1>Also the intellectual challenges that you can set for yourself. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.529 <v Speaker 1>On the other side of your bucket list is a you that you don't know yet. 00:05:22.529 --> 00:05:36.137 <v Speaker 1>I want people to get curiously excited about what's on the other side, the bigger version of them that they don't know yet, because, as we know, people are dying at 40 and being buried at 80. 00:05:36.137 --> 00:05:38.487 <v Speaker 1>People get to midlife and they have a crisis. 00:05:38.487 --> 00:05:39.749 <v Speaker 1>We call it a crisis. 00:05:39.749 --> 00:05:41.353 <v Speaker 1>Let's have a midlife awakening. 00:05:41.353 --> 00:05:42.053 <v Speaker 1>So U. 00:05:42.053 --> 00:05:44.439 <v Speaker 1>C conquer a fear. 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:48.329 <v Speaker 1>K find acts for others. 00:05:48.329 --> 00:05:50.992 <v Speaker 1>E stands for express yourself. 00:05:50.992 --> 00:05:53.795 <v Speaker 1>So this is the creative part of you. 00:05:53.795 --> 00:05:55.197 <v Speaker 1>So E-T. 00:05:55.197 --> 00:05:57.319 <v Speaker 1>The first T there is take lessons. 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:02.091 <v Speaker 1>All right, so what are some things that you want to learn before your time is up. 00:06:02.091 --> 00:06:04.031 <v Speaker 1>L stands for leave a legacy. 00:06:04.031 --> 00:06:06.874 <v Speaker 1>How do we want to be remembered after you're gone? 00:06:07.446 --> 00:06:08.971 <v Speaker 1>I is idiotic stuff. 00:06:08.971 --> 00:06:12.935 <v Speaker 1>There's a 21-year-old backpacker within all of us still. 00:06:12.935 --> 00:06:23.079 <v Speaker 1>No matter how serious you become as an adult, right, people are just gotta still keep having fun and having more adventures and choose fun and choose life. 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:31.839 <v Speaker 1>Because people get so serious and then they mental health and you know like, anyway, people, people. 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:37.345 <v Speaker 1>Funnily enough, a lot of people say to me over the years trav, this is the feedback. 00:06:37.345 --> 00:06:42.966 <v Speaker 1>Thank you for giving me permission to have fun again, thank you for giving me permission to dream again. 00:06:42.966 --> 00:06:45.110 <v Speaker 1>I mean, dude, how sad is that? 00:06:45.110 --> 00:06:48.838 <v Speaker 1>S stands for satisfy, a curiosity. 00:06:48.838 --> 00:06:52.987 <v Speaker 1>B stands for the classic travel adventures. 00:06:52.987 --> 00:06:56.529 <v Speaker 1>These experiences need to be shared, and who do you want to share them with? 00:06:56.529 --> 00:06:59.434 <v Speaker 1>These are the what's, but where's the big why? 00:06:59.434 --> 00:07:02.795 <v Speaker 1>A lot of us are just existing and not living. 00:07:02.795 --> 00:07:14.295 <v Speaker 1>So this gives people an opportunity to really, you know, I think, go for it, and it has worked over the last 12 years of letting people in on this stuff. 00:07:14.625 --> 00:07:16.432 <v Speaker 2>And that's a big Success Podcast for today. 00:07:16.432 --> 00:07:23.430 <v Speaker 2>Hopefully, you took a lot of notes, learned a whole bunch and, if you need to go re-listen to it, we dropped a lot of information right there today. 00:07:23.430 --> 00:07:25.797 <v Speaker 2>Big success is what it's all about. 00:07:25.797 --> 00:07:28.471 <v Speaker 2>And, by the way, if you haven't subscribed, hit that subscribe button. 00:07:28.471 --> 00:07:32.528 <v Speaker 2>So you're here with us every single week on the Big Success Podcast. 00:07:32.528 --> 00:07:33.310 <v Speaker 2>I'm Brad Sugars. 00:07:33.310 --> 00:07:33.971 <v Speaker 2>That's BS. 00:07:33.971 --> 00:07:35.997 <v Speaker 2>Big success is what we're shooting for. 00:07:35.997 --> 00:07:38.653 <v Speaker 2>Check the show notes for all the links. 00:07:38.653 --> 00:07:41.494 <v Speaker 2>Make sure you follow through, keep learning, keep coming back. 00:07:41.494 --> 00:07:45.716 <v Speaker 2>Oh, and, by the way, share this with any of your friends who you know are up for success. 00:07:45.716 --> 00:07:48.394 <v Speaker 2>I'll see you next week on the Big Success Podcast. 00:07:49.925 --> 00:07:55.593 <v Speaker 3>You've been listening to the Big Success Podcast with the number one business coach in the world, Brad Sugars. 00:07:55.593 --> 00:08:05.137 <v Speaker 3>To learn more about how to achieve business and personal success, as well as how to level up or listen to past episodes, visit wwwbradsugarscom.
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