The Year Ahead

[viscousmemories]

I've often heard that it's important to have goals, so I've decided that by the end of this year, I will:

Play a Mozart sonata on the piano.
Speak a romance language, fluently.
Diversify my portfolio.
Challenge Chuck (the Iceman) Liddell in the octagon.
Finish up my doctorate.
Put depression and anxiety behind me.
Buy a mansion and a yacht.

What are your goals?

[username]

Get an xbox 360 and plasma or other flat screen hdtv plus surround sound system.

I like goals that simply involve writing checks and getting shiny new things over those goals that require hard work and self growth.

I am flirting with buddhist practice (the meditation stuff :buddha: , not the religious stuff), but the jury is still out if I want to make regular practice a goal for the year or not. Involves a lot of the self growth thing. Self growth can be overrated

[Ensign Steve]

My goals:

Learn the true meaning of Columbus Day.
Enjoye a brief but memorable stint as Sideshow Steve.
Become the most popular girl in school, but blow it by being conceited.
Learn the true meaning of winter.

and if I have time:

Learn Sanskirt
Divide by zero

That is all.

[Veritas]

Well, I've already done a Plan of Action in another thread, but my material goals are:

Move house to a flat in a more central location in the city
Find a literary agent - and sell my book to a publisher
Become more happy with my physical appearance and if I'm not, then change it so I am

[pescifish]

so I've decided that by the end of this year, I will:As long as your goals are realistic!
:winner:

I am flirting with buddhist practice (the meditation stuff , not the religious stuff), but the jury is still out if I want to make regular practice a goal for the year or not. Involves a lot of the self growth thing. Self growth can be overratedHey, so... are you the username who recently posted in NARP (Non-Abrahamic Religions & Philosophy) at IIDB? I wondered if you were one and the same.

[username]

Hey, so... are you the username who recently posted in NARP (Non-Abrahamic Religions & Philosophy) at IIDB? I wondered if you were one and the same.

I am, I mean how could there be more than one username? :giggles:

[Ex-zombie]

My goal for 2006 is to let go of the animosity I feel toward Christians. I realize how irrational it is to blame Christians for the breakup of my marriage. The pastor of my ex-wife deserves all the glory for that. I need to stay focused on the fact that some Christians actually are kind and thoughtful people.

[pescifish]

Ex-zombie: :huggle:

I am, I mean how could there be more than one username? IIRC, I thought it was a great post.

[freemonkey]

Damn, I can't tell which goals are serious & which are pie-in-the-sky ;)

I have some goals but now I'm thinking maybe they're not ambitous enough. Back to the drawing board with me. :think:

[viscousmemories]

Pie in the sky?! All of the goals stated in the OP are completely legitimate, and some are as much as 20 years old now. Just because I've never taken a step toward accomplishing any of them doesn't mean they aren't serious.

It's possible that I need to set my sights a bit lower, though. I've considered that.

[Ymir's blood]

My goal is to finish cleaning up my home so the redecorating can start again. That and to get to bed in the next twenty minutes.

[username]

That and to get to bed in the next twenty minutes.

Yeah, that was my goal a few hours ago.

[Odysseus]

I've often heard that it's important to have goals, so I've decided that by the end of this year, I will:

Play a Mozart sonata on the piano.



Have you picked which one?


Id like to learn Pachelbels Canon for violin. Think i should manage it.

I sit my piano diploma very soon so i hope to achieve distiction in that.

Also want to win my debating competition at St. Andrews uni, pass my exams with A's and then have good summer holidays. I havent thought further than that yet!

[freemonkey]

OK, I've narrowed it down a little. But don't hold me to these, as I'm a little shy of committment and easily distracted... ;)

Make a lot more art
Sell a lot more art (for a lot more $$$)
Make my business much more profitable while also making it much less time-consuming (IWO, work less/earn more)
Get more teeth fixed
Buy a winning Lotto ticket
Get a new avatar
Get organized

[ceptimus]

I'm determined to finish this sentence before th

[pescifish]

Buy a winning Lotto ticketMy goal is to find a winning Lotto ticket. Since I was in my 20s and California started with the Lotto, my financial plan for the future has been to win the Lottery. But I felt I was doing nothing toward this goal, namely, I did not buy Lottery tickets.

However, upon further thought, I considered that the chances of me winning the Lottery are so astronomically low that factoring in the chances of me finding a Lottery ticket doesn't really change the odds significantly.

Therefore, there is no reason to buy a winning Lottery ticket, I simply need to be prepared to find that winning Lottery ticket. I am constantly working toward meeting my current goal of finding a winning Lottery ticket.

[Ensign Steve]

That has to be the smartest thing I have read in a really long time.

[pescifish]

:curtsey:

You know it only seems that way because you are sleep deprived, right?

[pescifish]

My goal for 2006 is to stop losing things.

[Adora]

Draw more porn.

[Joshua Adams]

Get better at physics. Last semester, I just barely pulled a B out of my ass, so I hope that I will do well this semester.
Become more advanced at programming. I don't see this realistically happening in the near future, though, since I didn't register for any related classes or buy any books or anything.
Read at least 50 books, as a conservative estimate. I own far more unread ones than otherwise.


Yeah, I don't aim very high. :oscarwin:

[Jacey]

Challenge Chuck (the Iceman) Liddell in the octagon.

I would pay megabucks to see this on ppv

Put depression and anxiety behind me.

Let me know what works!

My goals:
Win a poker tournament in a casino, buyin of $100 or more
Play in a WSOP Circuit event, buyin of $500 or more
Quit dating stupid girls
Add either Amazing Fantasy #15 or Amazing Spider-Man #1 to my collection
Pay off my car
Get my body back to the shape I was in while in the Marines
Watch at the least the first two seasons of DS 9 on DVD
Finish my short story
Visit Ensign Steve

[viscousmemories]

I would pay megabucks to see this on ppv
There's a shocker.

[BDS]

Find more money. Last year I probably found about $3 (not including money lying aruond my house). If I am more alert, I can double that.

[Waluigi]

Become more advanced at programming. I don't see this realistically happening in the near future, though, since I didn't register for any related classes or buy any books or anything.
The best way to get better at programming is to write programs. So get coding! You don't need a class or a book to make you better. Or do you want to end up living in a van down by the river? :glare:

My goals for 2006:

- Clean the house
- Paint the shutters
- Become independently wealthy
- Fly a plane
- Solve world hunger
- Go back to school
- Learn something new
- Lose weight
- Do something fun
- Run for public office
- Calculate pi to 314159265 digits
- Star in a musical on Broadway

That should keep me busy.

[Ensign Steve]

Watch at the least the first two seasons of DS 9 on DVD
...
Visit Ensign Steve
:idea:

I know how you can kill two birds with one stone.

[Jacey]

Watch at the least the first two seasons of DS 9 on DVD
...
Visit Ensign Steve
:idea:

I know how you can kill two birds with one stone.

Killing birds is wrong!

How about I just come watch DVDs??

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Season 1-2 of DS9? Watch "Duet," then watch seasons 4-7. :hyper:

-Lose weight
-Read more
-Less computer time
-Make good grades this year
-Save money
-Acquire DS9 and Desperate Housewives DVDs
-Acquire more OOP KMFDM cds

[inland wave]

Goals for 2006--
Better attitude at work
Spend more time with Warren
Spend more time with Dylan (grandson)
Finish painting the bedroom
Lose another 60 lbs./ exercise more
Go motorcycling with Warren
Work with BJ and trail riding on angel (horses, see gallery)
Start college in the fall (part-time)

[username]

Goals for 2006--

Work with BJ and trail riding on angel


What is "work with BJ" and what is "trail riding on Angel"?

[Dingfod]

They're her horses names.

[username]

They're her horses names.

Crap.

[Dingfod]

How do you think I feel?

[username]

How do you think I feel?

Like Angelina Jolie was about to stimulate you and then you woke up and realized you had to go to work?

[Dingfod]

Pretty much.

[Veritas]

I love you two. You're like aButt and Cuntstello, but slightly...well, not.

[Dingfod]

Not? Right field.

[Joshua Adams]

The best way to get better at programming is to write programs. So get coding! You don't need a class or a book to make you better. Or do you want to end up living in a van down by the river? :glare:How else am I going to learn the syntax and commands? :P

[Ensign Steve]

You just have to guess, man. Code, compile, debug, repeat. If 1000 monkeys and 1000 typewriters can do it, so can you.

[pescifish]

Once it compiles without error, you know it's perfect! :wizard: