Life Goals
Here's something I think we can all share: Life goals. From little to extravagant, what are your goals that you hope to achieve? Furthermore, if you'd like, what are you doing to reach these goals?
Those who have been able to accomplish goals that others may have, do you have advice for them?
I'm hoping that we can make this thread a positive environment for constructive advice and encouragement.
I suppose my main goal right now is to become self reliant financially as well as staying out of debt. So far, I've been able to manage the second one, but the first is still a struggle for me.
How about you guys?
Those who have been able to accomplish goals that others may have, do you have advice for them?
I'm hoping that we can make this thread a positive environment for constructive advice and encouragement.
I suppose my main goal right now is to become self reliant financially as well as staying out of debt. So far, I've been able to manage the second one, but the first is still a struggle for me.
How about you guys?
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But in the end it's the interaction of man and woman whether in the mind or from the body that gives everything it's worth and value.
As where a bond may express something of an entirely different experience than a self illuminating experience, it's the wills and energies of two people to create such a bond, and it becomes a philosophical argument in who has the greater bond.
Progress: Barely tolerable job, saw a woman on the bus last week, hid under my seat until she left
That's quite impressive, the underside of bus seats scares me half to death. The actual organisms living there would probably finish the job.
You're just going to come steal 40 cakes from me, aren't you?
That's terrible
>Finish two adventure games.
>Finish a manga.
>Finish three books.
>Learn the ocarina, the harp, the ukelele, the piano, the guitar, the harmonica, and the recorder.
>Learn to sing well.
>Fall in love with a nice, sweet person.
>Eat cookies.
>Eat cake.
>Not get diabetes.
>Live a long life.
>Make it through college.
>Learn several languages including Japanese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, German, Italian, Latin, Chinese, and Russian.
>Learn to shoot.
>Learn to defend myself with a martial art.
>Get stronger physically.
>Get a great education and a wonderful job.
I can't think of anything else currently.
I hate to break the magic, but I was totally referencing the picture.
I love all your musical goals, Fawful! I know you're working on the ocarina right now, and you seem to be getting quite good at it.
Is anyone else trying to lose weight right now?
posting on these forums is a good enough job for you
Thanks!
BTW I have a new life goal. Replying after every single post in this topic. Starting now.
@Giant Tope: I'm currently trying to lose 5 pounds for summer. I used to be 5'6 and a half, and 128 pounds, but I'm about 134 pounds right now. Biscotti does not help me at all. But I've been jogging every morning lately for an hour, and have cut most of the junk in my diet, so I hope it comes off again.
Get a higher self-esteem, having it low is a damper on my learning process, making my education harder. I must admit I am not actively working on that at the moment, as I don't have the time with my education and all.
I also want to move to England to live with my boyfriend, but again the self-esteem is a real issue in that goal.
Ba dum tish!
Forgive me.
- get a job (hopefully much sooner than in six months!)
- move into my own place so I'm not squatting at various friend's
Medium term (within a year):
- get my divorce finalised (Oh, right, I broke up with my husband in January, some people on here might not be aware. Long story short, one of us - not always the same one
- get a visa to move to the US. (Since I broke up with Ian I can't live in Canada anymore. Before going back to France I went to spend 3 months with Sean to see if it was worth getting a visa to live there permanently or if we should break up as well for both our sakes. Call me cynical but I wasn't about to let the same thing happen a second time, going through all that trouble only for things not to work out in the end).
General goals that don't have a timeline:
- learn more languages
- keep translating
- keep writing
- keep working out
Oh, yeah, also, right now, my big goal is don't meet someone else in France! (Or elsewhere that's not the US, for that matter). Not sure how much I can do to avoid that but I'll try my best. I don't need that kind of thing right now, once I manage to get to the US all my partners had better live there too. Seriously.
Sean says I should get a relationship just in the meantime, for the year I'm in France, but seriously, I get too attached, there is no way that would work. I just can't do casual relationships.
Mmh, I don't really have anything else, the rest is more about going with the flow, depending on what path I end up taking. I mean, a lot of it will depend on when exactly I can get to the US, etc.
Oh, and I have another goal. When I'm back in the US, finally finish Jake's hidden person (I haven't touched it since right before PAX... it only needs limbs, too, otherwise it's done >.>)
So I guess I'll keep it short:
- I am a pretty aimless person
- I'm currently doing what I "should" be doing. A managment degree, leading from my best grade at A-level. Business
- But I'm not doing very well at it, I'm struggling to work, struggling to care about it, ever since I realised that even with a degree, my future is definately not secured since I have a crappy CV even with that final degree
- But I've realised that maybe I should be doing what I want to do.
- I want to develop my skills, actual thing that can be put on paper and are useful
- I want to either go back to French or Spanish, or try to learn a completely new language like Chinese or Japanese
- Or do something related to programming. Do a course on a language like Java or something, anything really. I've feel like I've always skated along the edge of this. I got loads of devs kits,and I've toyed with Game Maker over the years, but the lack of structure/plan and uni seem to have got in the way of me really sinking my teeth into it.
- I've always wanted to create, preferably videogames, since I have a fiery passion for everything related to videogames.
I have notebooks just full of drawings, game ideas, heck even now there are the occasional doodle and idea lurking around the house.
No artist though.
Not really a great musician either. Have a natural playing ability, but can't ever seem to focus on learning techniques and theory that would improve my playing.
Seem to handicap myself a lot by being left handed.
Can you get surgery for that? XD
I'm actually still stuggling to gain weight. So that's definitely one of my life goals - and I can't help but feel it'll take my entire life to achieve it. It was originally my new years resolution, but since then I've somehow lost a bit more weight. Really no idea how.
The other life goals I want to achieve is to learn the piano and actually be good at art. Job wise, I'm seriously hoping that I have the guts to leave my friends and family behind after this september to go work in retail on a cruise ship. It'll be a massive achievement for me if I manage to do that. It'll mean that I have become fully independant.
-Get a FT position at my place of employment(I currently get fair hours, fair pay, vacation, pension...but the job security and benefits currently elude me).
-Learn circuitry and electronic repair. I have a few books of varying levels of difficulty and there's the internet too(NOT wikipedia of course). I find school and degrees to be rather useless unless they add letters to your name :P
-Get a passport. Sounds simple but I keep getting the photo taken and putting it off, putting it off, putting it off and they've expired twice. Yeah it's pretty pathetic.
-Maybe get a driver's license. I don't know about this one. I live in a major city and I don't really need it. Most places I need to go are walking distance or accessible by transit...and with the current cost of insurance and gas... yeah, no wonder I have very little urge to get it; good to have when I travel though.
You're starting to sound like a southern rock lyricist.
- Get the grades I need to get onto the neuroscience course at Aberdeen Uni
- Go to Italy, Greece and Japan at least once in my lifetime
- Learn some foreign languages, I already know Spanish and a bit of French, but maybe Italian, Portuguese, German or Japanese (I tried Mandarin Chinese and failed miserably so no more of that :P)
- Publish a novel, or at least a book of short stories
- Become good enough at art to be able to sketch portraits for a bit of extra income
And longer than 10 - 15 years? Probably all the usual having a family and being where I want to be in life kind stuff ^^
by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty,
To find the best in others,
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
A garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
That, basically.
1. I don't want to die of radiation sickness. This is first and foremost. If I can avoid this fate, then my life will have been a moderate success. This also goes for ebola.
2. Make an amazing discovery someday that will change the world as we know it. I know that this is highly unlikely, but I'll add a condition that if I discover something minor that later allows someone else to find something big, that totally counts as well.
3. Learn a language. I really don't care which one. I just hate being lumped in with the "dumb American" stereotype of people who only know one language.
4. Figure out how to control my voice better. I've been training for years and I still have troubles getting above a high C.
5. Loads of other things that I won't bore you with. Shall we say they include travel plans, martial art styles, compositions, reading and writing novels, games, learning advanced mathematics, making a functional robot, and finding something to do with the giant roll of polystyrene in my room. On the last one, I'm open to suggestions.
1. Find a chicken
2. Eat the chicken
3. Rinse and repeat.
EDIT: 4. Learn how to do forum codes properly...
My life goal is to join Special Unit Foxhound.
Phase 2) Get a nicer place. Phase 1 will facilitate this.
Phase 3) Go to the gym somewhat regularly and friggin' get in shape. .... Still working on this one.
Phase 4) Build a harem.
Phase 5) Find a nice girl who doesn't care about money after driving myself into the poor house trying to maintain a harem.
SNAKE l!!
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