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September 2017 - Work Life Balance and Bucket Lists

Bucket Lists Bucket lists are just targets - right?  They are a way of us recording what we want to do.  If we record aims and targets publicly, it makes it really hard to then NOT do what we can to achieve them.  Hence bucket lists are a way of making us get off the sofa and DO SOMETHING.  Children of the 70s will remember 'Why Don't You?', a programme that I found irritating as a child because you had to sit and watch TV to find out you were supposed to be out doing something less boring instead of sitting watching TV On my bucket list aims (or goals as I prefer to see them), has been achieve 70% at dressage.  I started with the aim of getting 70% at prelim.  I figured at a lower level then we were working we ought to be able to do that.  I have managed 69%, but not 70 at prelim.  I didn't give up on my target but decided not to focus on it so much because it felt like self-inflicted pressure and frankly, there is quite enough of that at work for 5 days without ad