✦Seasonal · 13 recordsSummer bucket list

Summer bucket lists fail in August, when half the list turns out to have needed booking in May. This writes the list early, sorts it into things that need planning and things that just need a free afternoon, and puts each into a specific weekend so the summer is not spent meaning to.

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Goal

Most of the list done by the end of summer Month 3

Ten things, each with a weekend attached.

Write the list Week 2

Early, while the things that need booking can still be booked.

  • Write down everything I want to do this summerDo firstDay 3
  • Keep ten, and mark the ones that need bookingDo firstDay 6
  • Book the ones that need bookingDo firstDay 13

Give each one a weekend Month 3

A date, or it stays a wish.

  • Put each item into a specific weekend in the calendarDo firstWeek 2
  • Invite whoever each one needsWeek 3
  • Halfway check: move or drop what will not happenWeek 8
  • Look back at the list and note the best oneMonth 3

Routines

  • Do something from the listweekly
✦ It puts something in the calendar

Dates you will not have to remember

First day of summer

21 June09:00
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Ideas to choose from

Small A picnic somewhere new An outdoor film or concert Watch a sunrise Swim outdoors A day with no plans and no phone Pick fruit at a farm

Bigger A camping weekend A festival, or a day at the coast Try something outdoors: paddleboarding, climbing, sailing A trip somewhere never visited

For families A treasure hunt Build a den A day of saying yes

Ten is enough. A list of thirty mostly produces the feeling of not having done it.

✦ Questions

Summer bucket list, answered.

A mix of small and big: a few things that just need a free evening, like a picnic or an outdoor film, and two or three that need planning, like a trip or a festival. The note in this plan has ideas for adults and for families to choose from.
Around ten. That is roughly one a week through the summer, which leaves room for weather and ordinary life, and a list of thirty mostly produces the feeling of not having done it.
Before summer starts. The things that need booking, like campsites, tickets and time off, go first, and they are the ones that are gone by the time the weather turns warm.
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