Lana Wolfe lives in Colorado with her dog Tasha. She also spends a lot of time in Oregon and traveling throughout the United States. After spending 20 years in accounting, she embarked on a new career as an author, speaker, and life coach following her near-death experience as told in her book, Like a Moth to a Flame, a Fatal Attraction.
She is actively pursuing her passion to help women overcome fear, find inner peace, and live the life of their dreams. In pursuit of her own dreams, she is checking things off her bucket list and her new mantra is filled your bucket before you kick the bucket. Lana has hiked over 16 fourteeners in Colorado and rafted through the Grand Canyon. Up next, she is planning to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. Oh, and I hear that it’s an amazing trail.
So I met Lana and we had gotten to spend some time together. She’s a wonderful, wonderful woman and her story is so amazing. So today we’re going to talk about what is on your bucket list and why this might be important, as we start to expand our consciousness and really step into our highest potential. Welcome to the show, Lana.
Oh, thank you. It’s so nice to be here.
So tell us what is on your bucket list and, not you personally, but when somebody thinks about what is on your bucket list, what would you tell them? What should be on their bucket list?
You know, most of the time we think of a bucket list as some ultimate destination, Machu Picchu or the Eiffel Tower. The purpose of a bucket list is really to have a goal. I mean we make goals for our career and health goals and lose weight and all this other stuff, but a lot of times we kind of let the goals for ourselves slip. Ultimately, it’s not really the destination, but it’s the pursuit of some ideal and setting the goals.
I really like to set little weekly bucket list goals. Like, okay, I want to go to the park or I want to spend half an hour in the hot tub. Sometimes it’s just the little things that make the difference.
I never would have thought about having just a weekly bucket list. How amazing is that to not make it this thing that’s so far out there, but something that we can start doing immediately?
Right, because it’s a mindset. That’s really what I do, is helping people get in that mindset, helping people overcome the trauma. Again, setting goals is a big factor in overcoming anxiety and trauma.
I mean, my near-death experience, I was taking pills in the morning to get through the day and taking pills at night to sleep and it was, like, I had to stop. I took my life back. It’s, like, no and the first thing was really setting that goal of hiking. I did 14 fourteeners in 2014 and I think once I could do that, I could do anything.
That is amazing. So if there was a message to give somebody that maybe is feeling that way, and we’ll talk more about your story here in just a minute, but just a little takeaway for someone that’s maybe struggling right now, how having a bucket list can kind of give them the inspiration or the zest for life again.
It’s a lot in planning. It’s like you make your list, you set the goal, and when you think about what it would feel like? What do I really want to accomplish? That right there gives you a lift in the vibration, a lift in your spirits to think, “Yeah, I want to be there and I want to relax. I want to enjoy this,” or “I want…” Again, a lot of people go to the destination, “Okay, I check it off,” and it’s like they’re planning for the next. We don’t experience the now, being in the now. So even in just the planning is being in the now.