The Buckets Project:

I asked everyone the same question and recorded the conversation:

Let’s talk about your perfect day - however you interpret the word perfect.

Write down everything you want to do, then take a step back and split your

perfect 24 hours into four buckets or priorities. Don’t think about money,

reality or logic. Make it as perfect as you want. Don’t think of it as your

last 24 hours either. Think of it as the same 24 hours you’d live again and

again to experience a full life of happiness and fulfillment.

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Hey everyone! Welcome to The Buckets Project. Today’s episode and

conversation is with a lovely woman I met at my previous job (and I’ve had

many previous jobs), Melinda.

Through my many jobs, I’ve crossed paths with many people. Some of them

were the naïve idealists who believed that life is only black and white (me

being one of them). Then there are the others who are mature enough to

understand that one must live through the black, pray to see the white, and

somehow deal with the gray – the realist.

I’ve crossed paths with many people who seem to bleed sunshine. Positive

vibes appear to run through their veins, and you can’t quite understand

how. All you know is that you need more of it … without being creepy. The

best part of it is that those vibes are authentic because they come from

the depths of their inner-being – those veins I mentioned before. Being

positive is just who they are, and there can be nothing fake about it – the

realist.

Melinda is the illest. I mean the realist. From the first day we spoke, I

felt the need to open up to her about my life. There was so much gray in my

mind when I needed more white within the walls of my career and my life

(figuratively, not literally). Like many of the people in my life, she

enlightened me with the black, the white, and everything in between. We

connected. I hope you enjoy this connection and learn from it as much as I

have. Conversations that go deep enough can uplift the roofs and walls of

your intellect to let more sunshine in.

Have a great day.

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This concludes the episode and conversation I had with Melinda. We talked a

lot about her husband, her kids, and her parents. She expanded on the depth

of her parents’ relationship and how love can bring two people together

regardless of time. We talked about how healthy nutrition and daily

activities can dictate how you spend your future, or rather how the lack of

those things dictate how you spend money for medicine in the future. We

dove a little deeper into the “what-ifs” of our careers and where life

could lead us in the years to come. Thank you for listening to this episode

and I hope you enjoyed this woman’s sunshine as much as I did. Have a great

day.