Most people have a bucket list: to tandem skydive, trek Mount Everest, hike the Appalachian Trail, run the New York Marathon or to purchase their dream home to live out their gild-ridden years. Whatever item you wish to check off your bucket list, take steps NOW to make it come into fruition. Don’t postpone what you can live today.

And to inspire yourself into action this very moment, contemplate the following: The definition of hell is when you die, the person you were will meet the person you could have become. Words to live by, no?

And so if owning your dream home is on your bucket list, take a peek below. Your dream is about to get that much bigger.

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Gatsby would surely approve of this home.

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Your dream home would surely fulfill other dreams: swimming in the moonlight; festivities with friends and family with the most breathtaking views.

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Living the dream also means slumbering in a palatial paradise.

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Sitting outside by the fire pit has never looked, nor felt, so dreamy delicious.

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A kitchen to die -and to live- for, no?

In the not so recent past, there lived a savant of sorts named Goethe who turned his dreams into a reality. Goethe was a famous German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman (yes, he kept his government job), critic and theatre director, who is now considered one of the greatest German literary figures of our modern era. And if Goethe can accomplish all that he did, you surely can too.

Yes, if a fantasy dream home is an item on your bucket list, it's completely doable. As well as any other item on your bucket list. Take steps now to materialize your dreams; Goethe will be cheering you on. "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it," said Goethe. "Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” And Goethe should know, he lived out his bucket list and then some.

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