Ditch Your Bucket List | Dr. Ellen Langer

"If you are mindfully engaged with the present moment, you don't need to be anyplace else."

An excerpt from my exchange with Harvard’s renowned ‘Mother of Mindfulness,’ Dr. Ellen Langer. 

Episode 813.

✌🏼🌱 - Rich

[monikaa.]

Yes. We deliver the same person to each place. We cannot escape from ourselves, we experience everything that happens to us through our brain.

[ayleenhacopian]

I don’t know about anyone else, however to me a bucket list exists because of my desire for growth and curiosity and exploration of this beautiful planet, not necessarily because I am not enjoying where I am !

[benjamincai]

The more i listen to this lady, the more it resonates.

[starrelliott]

All we have is this moment. Be grateful, be here, choose to be happy. 😊

[nelsonguerrero]

So simple...Happiness is where one is...Mindfully engagement can happen anywhere...

[vanessapetrea]

She is very correct! BEing happy IS the list, so BE happy in the moment. 🥰

[HazeyWolf]

"Wherever you go, there you are..." - Buckaroo Bonzai

[rdewan]

Such wonderful message. I don't have any either. I am very happy where ever I am.

[MP-wlgd]

Totally agree. I never had one and it fives me anxiety thinking oh I need a list like other people. Screw that. Be happy and do what makes you happy. And if you want to do something...just go do it

[georgekatsikis]

Chasing happiness on reflection is running away from happiness itself!

[wertcon]

My bucket list:
-Enjoy my day and family

[sparrowflyingfreely]

Funny, I don’t have a bucket list either ! One day at a time, only way to live for me personally ~

[scottanthony]

Glad you said that as I don't have a bucket list I don't know why but I never wanted one I live in the present

[mariaciupac]

I am with her. I am happy here now I don’t need to be in Bahamas … love it

[LisaDunahoe]

I feel like that planning a vacation. I can be happy anywhere. I will still probably go on that vacation.

[TKennedy-iw]

My bucket list shares my life with me every day 😊

[confusedwhynot]

Make every moment count each day and live it to its fullest. Enjoy life!

[SriDevi-trux]

Her voice is so soothing and her words 💯💯

[lyceum]

Never had a bucket list. I enjoy life however, wherever it is, too.

[DAH]

I think I first realised this when visiting the Grand Canyon....and then later visiting the sights in Rome. Both left me with a sensation of 'so what?'. I'm not disinterested in nature, history, culture etc (far from it)...but find I can get a near equivalent satisfaction from reading, reflection and learning... without the need to physically travel.