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Halloween as a Pathway to Personal Development

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Today is Halloween, the day that we celebrate all things scary, freaky, frightening and . . . dead.

Last year I had kids show up on my doorstep dripping with blood, with axes buried in their skulls and knives in their backs. I had kids who carried their own heads while asking for candy. I even had one kid who was a framed picture of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”

While Halloween is great fun, we don’t usually think of it as a pathway to personal development.

But Halloween can teach us about living life more fully.

Personal Development and Death

You see, Halloween reminds us all about the other side. Gravestones, ghosts and zombies are about that last great adventure: Death. 

The fact that we will all meet the Grim Reaper (and he probably doesn’t want any candy), reminds us that we need to live now.

Bucket Lists

But living now can seem like something so abstract as to be useless, which is why I love writing bucket lists.

Writing these lists force you to get very concrete about what is important to you, what inspires you and what you absolutely must make a priority.

Today, I challenge you to write your own list. If you need some help getting started, download my free bucket list template. 

Sit down and write as many things you can think of that you really want to accomplish, see, do, discover, learn, visit or experience in your life.

The results may help you build self-awareness as well as help you to create goals for yourself that feel authentic and inspiring.

If you want some help, check out this post: I Write Bucket Lists.

I took the challenge. You can read my bucket list here.

Take the challenge, and let me know the highlights of your bucket list in the comments!

What do you NEED to do? And what did this exercise teach you about yourself?

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Filed Under: Blog | Tagged With: Inspiration, Life Path, Passions, Personal Development

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  1. Giulietta Nardone says

    November 1, 2012 at 11:58 am

    good post! and important to talk about death because without death life would have no meaning. That’s why vampires can get to melancholy. I’m constantly checking off my bucket lists! Hiking The Narrows was one of them!

    I should start posting my stuff on linked in. This is a good idea.

    thanks, G.

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